About six months ago, I wrote about Dan Sullivan’s Entrepreneurial Time Management System. Since then, I’ve drifted away from the approach a handful of times. And, each time, like noticing attention drifting away from the breath while meditating and then refocusing on it, I’ve noted a drop in my work output, switched back to Sullivan’s approach, and been pleasantly surprised anew at both how much more I get done, and how much less stressed I feel.

Since the prior post, My only real change is a reorganization of when the different types of days fall in my average week. Instead of using Buffer days on Tuesday and Thursday to break up Monday, Wednesday and Friday Focus days, I now make Monday and Friday the Buffers, and do Focus work Tuesday-Thursday.

That uninterrupted stretch of really getting down to it seems to help hugely in terms of work output. And it dovetails well with a slew of additional suggestions from my friend Cal Newport’s great new book Deep Work, which is also worth a read.

As this is a Focus day, back to work!