Coaching practices for Do it Tomorrow with My Team

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I reflect on my day and feel all these feelings about it, and then tomorrow plays out exactly the same
  • On a calm Sunday I’m completely sure I’ll follow through this week, but I know by Wednesday afternoon, when the urge hits, that resolve will evaporate
  • The same stale tasks roll over from yesterday to today to tomorrow without me ever asking whether they still matter
  • I do these honest reviews of my day and then nothing actually changes tomorrow
  • I lie awake at night with tomorrow’s undone work circling in my head, and then I start each morning cold, burning my best focus just deciding where to begin instead of already knowing.

Practices that may help

  1. Do It Tomorrow, Made Practical
    Mark Forster’s Do It Tomorrow (DIT) system controls workload by closing today’s task list at the start of the day and routing new requests to tomorrow, so you finish what you committed to rather than endlessly reacting. This is a practitioner system rather than a tested protocol, but its core mechanisms — closed lists, batched same-day processing, and routine work separation — align with well-supported cognitive load and attention research.
  2. Close with a resolve for tomorrow
    End by choosing one concrete intention to carry into the next day.
    The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
  3. Use precommitment devices to lock in future behavior from a patient vantage point
    Remove the option to defect when temptation peaks by committing now, before present bias activates.
    Hyperbolic Discounting — Why Future You Always Gets the Short End
  4. Carry unfinished tasks to tomorrow’s list — and evaluate whether they belong
    Anything from today that isn’t done goes through the same six-slot prioritization tomorrow, not automatic carry-over.
    The Ivy Lee Method, Made Practical
  5. Close with a forward-looking resolve
    Choose one concrete intention to carry into tomorrow before closing the review.
    The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
  6. Write tomorrow’s six most important tasks the evening before
    Before the day ends, write exactly six tasks — no more — for the next day, ordered by their importance to you.
    The Ivy Lee Method, Made Practical
  7. Run a regular team elimination review
    Periodically review what the team is doing that no longer serves any current goal.
    The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
  8. Default new requests to tomorrow
    Unless something is genuinely urgent, new work goes to tomorrow — not today.
    Do It Tomorrow, Made Practical
  9. Run a single weekly priority-setting meeting
    Replace ad-hoc priority requests with one weekly meeting where the whole team re-sorts together.
    The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
  10. Combine the pre-mortem with red team pressure
    Run a pre-mortem and then ask the red team to find the failure mode the team missed.
    Red Teaming: Stress-Testing Plans Before They Fail

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