Experiment here.

Promise:

By the end of today, I have written the first drafts of the Alpha & Beta Multi-Account Newsletters, and made all the chapter notes for the Atlas China book.

Result:Failed

Right, this isn’t working. I”ve tried pushing myself to big daily promises for a week now, and my success rate is very low.

I’m going to try a different approach, picked up from IBM via Tim Ferriss: Small quotas. I’ll set a small goal for each day, something quite easy. If I can do just that, the day is a win. If I can do more, extra win.

Let’s see where that leads.