Daily Cycle
At the end of the day, update. At the start of the next day, recall.
⏱ minutes at night ❯ seconds in the morning
Disconnect. Put your phone away, turn off your computer screen, close your laptop.
And the door.
End of day: update.
➀ Analyze
What did you prioritize for today? Did you achieve what you planned?
At the end of the day, check the dashboard for what you noted for today and reflect on what you did or didn't do. Focus on choices, actions, and results.
Then, contrast your conclusions with notes from other dates, past and future.
ENJOY THE BREADTH
Often, new perspectives and ideas come precisely from being able to visualize past and future notes simultaneously within a broad context.
⚠ Have you identified behavioral patterns or situations that hinder your plans?
Change your perspective: reflect on how to overcome them in the coming days.
➁ Write it down
If you have new insights, make notes and mark them on your days on the dashboard.
Then, optionally, mark your self-assessment or the day's assessment in the circle symbols.
Afterward, summarize the most important actions and observations for tomorrow, always related to the quarter's goal or theme, and note them in tomorrow's daily rectangle.
DEVELOP YOUR SYNTHESIS POWER
Create your own abbreviations, acronyms, arrows, connecting lines, and outlines for your way of summarizing and relating information.
⚝ Synthesize and note only the essentials
Avoid details on the dashboard. Continue using your planner and apps for complementary information.
At the beginning of the next day: recollection.
➂ Activate
Upon waking, do not reach for your phone or consult any other source of information, digital or otherwise.
Check the dashboard first, but before that, try to recall what you prioritized for today. Then, check your plans on the dashboard. Afterward, review notes from past and future days.
ENJOY THE WIDE VIEW
Your priorities always visible in the same place and in a broad context: daily recall your intentions and conclusions, as well as choices, results, goals, and patterns.
✕ Did you remember the behavioral patterns or situations you identified and want to change?
Starting the day aware of this is a great advantage both for making the day flow better and for the process of changing these patterns. Reflect for a moment on how to deal with them throughout the day.
➃ Reinforce
Throughout the day, check the dashboard several times.
Checking the dashboard every morning reminds you of your priorities. Throughout the day, consulting the dashboard also helps you realize how much (or how little) attention your priorities are receiving.
HARNESS THE VISUAL IMPACT
Your dashboard acts as a focal point in your environment, directing your attention to your priorities.
⇆ And between the evening review and morning activation?
New ideas, conclusions, or commitments and events crucial to the dashboard's objective or theme? Write them down! They will be part of the analysis at the end of the day.
Throughout the quarter, print the following.
➄ Choose the months
Throughout the quarter, as events and ideas for the coming months emerge.
Evaluate the months you want to see together. Example: imagine that today you have March, April, and May on the wall, but haven't made many notes in May yet.
Instead of printing the next quarter starting in June, you can, if you prefer, print it starting in May (quarter May, June, and July), even if you have already printed a quarter including May.
CHANGES IN PERSPECTIVE ARE NATURAL
Your priorities, always visible in the same place and in a broad context, evolve. And so do your strategies. Rethinking the quarters is part of the process.
➶ Active and daily reading of your dashboard transforms your view of your time and processes.
Your dashboard helps you develop a systemic view of yourself. It is natural and expected that you will change directions and how you deal with different situations and demands.
⑥ Book
If you only use one panel on the wall, you don't need to assemble the next one after printing it.
Print the next quarter without rushing to assemble it, especially if you only use one quarter on the wall.
Start filling in your four pages until you want to assemble it, replacing the previous one
Definitive or draft?
With the four pages printed and loose, the first impression of your next panel can also be a draft.
✎ Creatively relate the notes for the next panel
You can use the first as a draft and print it a second time for definitive notes and markings. This also helps to further consolidate the information you structured in the next panel.
You've started a transformation process.
Maintain consistency.
The dashboard will become a productive and liberating habit in your daily life, helping you keep in mind what matters most and works for you.
It will also help you avoid autopilot, which happens when there's a lack of clarity in your next steps.
