At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor

by Carey Nieuwhof

CHAPTER 6 IN A SNAP Do your moderately important tasks in your Yellow Zone, when you have a moderate amount of energy. Do your least important tasks in your Red Zone, when you have the least amount of energy. The biggest Red Zone mistake you can make is to leave important decisions or critical tasks for this zone. When you don’t have complete control over your calendar, focus on what you can control, not on what you can’t. And there’s a surprising amount you can control. You and your time are far less controlled by other people than you think. Be spectacularly good at what you do, and you might be surprised at how eager your employer is to make changes to accommodate you. Being around is no guarantee that anything relationally significant will happen, but not being around is an absolute guarantee that nothing relationally significant will happen. “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you’re right.”