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The front page of the Roadmap Planner will help with items 1,3, and 4. The Daily Dats system on the back side of the planner can help with items 2 and 5 by tracking hours spend doing homework, browsing internet, playing video games, and watching t.v.

Buy the Roadmap Planner today for your high school and college age kids so they can get with the program before school starts!

The big breakthrough came when I was first teaching at USC and a student with severe dyslexia asked for help. Not knowing what to do, I turned to an expert on learning disorders. She advised that I let the student take the exam in my office, giving him short breaks every 20 minutes. The student did very well, surprising us both, and I was intrigued. After years of working with 20-minute segments, the Multiple Put Down technique was born. I’ve used it to write four books, a dissertation and thousands of speeches.

Here it is: work on a task in 20-minute increments, with absolute focus, and then put it down, over and over, until you’re done.

You must read the whole article here.

Eye doctors will tell you about the 20/20/20 rule of rest breaks. Every twenty minutes, look up twenty feet away, and count to twenty seconds. Reading requires our eyes to turn in and accommodate (flexing the focusing muscles). Reading for long periods of time creates strain and stress on your eyes, so taking a short break every once in a while helps you read longer and easier.

I can’t help but wonder if the Multiple Put Down technique and the 20/20/20 rule are related.

Weekly planning session with Roadmap Planner

The best way to get an idea of what the Roadmap Planner is and what it could do to improve your life is to look at the Digital Demo (pdf ~725 KB) and also review an example Goal Constitution (PDF ~690 KB).

Also see the post called: “What is the Roadmap Planner?”

There is still a supply of the old-logo 2011 Roadmap Planners on inventory close-out for just $5!

It has been my experience that I more frequently accomplish all my daily dats when I stick to a routine. That’s why I really like how the Roadmap Planner lets you schedule in 15 minute increments so you can assign exactly when you will accomplish your goals.

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By the way, an OpenOffice spreadsheet is a lot like a Microsoft Excel or Corel Quattro Pro spreadsheet. The big difference is that the OpenOffice suite is free, open-source software. I highly recommend it.

This spreadsheet file is believed to be non-malicious; however, I make no warranties or guarantees, so use this file at your own risk.

Instructions:
Just like the paper version of the 53 Week Goal Tracker, once a week you enter into the spreadsheet your weekly totals (or averages) from your Daily Dats™. The spreadsheet creates a graph so you can visually see at a glance how you are doing.

Feel free to customize the spreadsheet. You can replace “Goal #X” with your goal’s abbreviation. You can alter the graphs to make them more meaningful to you. Have fun with it.

With any important electronic file, it is wise to create backups so you don’t lose your data when you accidentally delete something. Of course, all the data should be on the back page of your weekly Roadmap Planner in the Daily Dats™, but still, it would be annoying to delete everything at week 40 then have to retype everything.

Time is Money

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