Everything up to now was building the foundation of the system. You captured all the open loops, refined them into tasks, picked a tier and loaded everything in it. Now you have a system. But what does it actually feel like to run one, morning to morning, once the building is done.

I’ll do this by showing you my own routine because a concrete example is worth more than a list of principles. Not that you should copy it, but steal what fits, ignore the rest. Since I have been using TaskBeacon for over a year to manage every task and project I am juggling, that is what this will primarily be based around, but the ideas are the same.