The 18-Minute Plan is a daily productivity ritual created by Peter Bregman consisting of 5 minutes of morning planning, 1 minute of refocus every hour for 8 hours, and 5 minutes of evening review to manage your day and master distraction.
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Peter Bregman's 18-Minute Plan is a structured daily ritual designed to help professionals find focus, master distraction, and get the right things done. The plan is based on Bregman's Harvard Business Review columns and his book 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done.
Before turning on your computer, sit down with a blank piece of paper and decide what will make this day highly successful. Take a look at your five areas of focus and ask yourself: What can I realistically accomplish today in my areas of focus? Transfer the tasks from your to-do list to your calendar.
Set your watch, phone, or computer to ring every hour. When you hear the beep, take a deep breath and ask yourself if you spent your last hour productively. Then look at your calendar and deliberately recommit to how you are going to use the next hour.
At the end of your day, review what worked, where you had the most focus and where you got distracted.
Before applying the 18-minute plan, you need to set five areas of focus at the beginning of the year. An area of focus establishes activities you want to spend your time doing.