Standard Directive 022: You're Gonna Want To Write That Down

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• 0:00Jocko Willink?

  If you're having trouble getting things done,

• 0:04Jocko Willink?

  write those things down.

• 0:07Jocko Willink?

  Write them down.

• 0:09Jocko Willink?

  Write them down, not on an app, not on a computer document or a spreadsheet. Get a notebook and write the things down that you need to do.

• 0:22Jocko Willink?

  And then draw little boxes, draw little boxes in front of each task.

• 0:28Jocko Willink?

  And ideally, actually do this before you go to bed at night.

• 0:33Jocko Willink?

  Before you go to sleep at night, write down what you are supposed to do tomorrow.

• 0:40Jocko Willink?

  Write down the things that you have to do to get where you want to be. Write those things down, write down those tasks.

• 0:49Jocko Willink?

  And you can, you can put them in order of importance, or you can put them in order chronologically of how you plan to get them done throughout the day. Doesn't really matter, you'll figure out what works for you later. But for now, do this. Write them down in a list. Put a box in front of each task that you need to complete.

• 1:13Jocko Willink?

  And then, when you wake up the next day,

• 1:17Jocko Willink?

  start executing the list and start checking those boxes. That is how you get things done.