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Make sure that you stick to your time budget for the remaining 95 days.
21. Identify one low-priority activity which you can stop doing for the next 100 days, and devote that
time to a high priority task instead.
22. Identify five ways in which you regularly waste time, and limit the time that you’re going to spend
on these activities each day, for the next 100 days. Here are three examples:
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Watch no more than half-an-hour of television a day.
Spend no more than half-an-hour each day on social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and
Stumbleupon.
Spend no more than twenty minutes a day playing video games.

23. For the next 100 days, stop multi-tasking; do one thing at a time without distractions.
24. For the next 100 days, plan your day the night before.
25. For the next 100 days, do the most important thing on your To-Do list first, before you do anything
else.
26. For the next 14 weeks, conduct a review of each week. During your weekly review, answer the
following:
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What did you accomplish?
What went wrong?
What went right?

27. For the next 100 days, spend a few minutes at the end of each day organizing your desk, filing
papers, and making sure that your work area is clean and orderly, so that you can walk in to a neat desk
the next day.
28. Make a list of all of the commitments and social obligations that you have in the