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Projects/Builds/Daily-Highlights-Weekly-Reflections/teaching-design.md --- # Daily Highlights ## Skool description Choose tomorrow's two or three meaningful highlights and leave with a repeatable three-question daily close that helps you review with curiosity. ## Recording plan - **Format:** One short recorded video, approximately twelve to fifteen minutes. - **One big idea:** Pre-deciding two or three meaningful highlights the night before creates a focused day and a clean workday close. - **One tool:** The six-criteria highlight filter paired with the three-question Daily Close. - **One action:** Choose tomorrow's two or three highlights, with three as the cap, and write them somewhere visible before the next workday begins. ## Full spoken recording script ### Opening Before I explain this, pause the video and say out loud how you would choose tomorrow's few priorities today. Do not overthink it, just say the first thing that comes to mind. Then press play and we will take it from there. Daily Highlights is a simple practice for entrepreneurs who can stay busy all day while the work that matters most keeps moving to tomorrow. You can answer messages, handle urgent requests, clear small tasks, and still reach the end of the day knowing that the meaningful work did not move. The issue is not always a lack of effort. Sometimes the day simply began without a clear decision about what mattered most. When nothing has been pre-decided, your mind keeps choosing throughout the day. Whatever feels urgent can take over, even when it is not the most useful thing to complete. Daily Highlights gives the day a small number of meaningful wins before the day gets busy. ### What Daily Highlights are Your Daily Highlights are two or three precious, limited non-negotiables selected at the end of the workday for tomorrow, with three as the cap. This is not a list of everything you plan to touch. It is the small set of tasks that would make tomorrow feel meaningful and productive if you completed them. Think of each place as limited. A task has to earn its way into the set. Choosing the night before matters because it separates planning from doing. You finish the current day by deciding what deserves your best attention next, so you do not need to begin tomorrow by rebuilding the whole plan. Those two or three highlights become a minimum viable win for the day. You may still have other work to handle, but these are the few things that protect meaningful progress. Where it fits your real schedule, aim to complete them in the first four to five working hours. This is useful guidance, not a fixed rule. The point is to give the highlights your better attention before the day becomes crowded and your energy drops. ### The six-criteria filter Before something becomes a Daily Highlight, run it through six criteria. The first criterion is aligned. Does this directly support your goals and priorities? A task can feel urgent without supporting the direction you actually want to move in. The second criterion is effective. Is this the best action available for the result you want, or is there a better alternative? Daily Highlights should hold useful work, not merely familiar work. The third criterion is impactful. Will completing this create meaningful progress? The task should move something important forward. The fourth criterion is challenging. Does it push you enough to matter? A trivial task does not need one of your limited places. The fifth criterion is specific and tangible. Could another person understand exactly what you plan to complete? A vague intention leaves too much room for the meaning to change during the day. The sixth criterion is fulfilling. Will completing it leave you with a sense of achievement and meaning? Your highlights should support progress that matters to you. Pause here and try this step with your own possible highlights for tomorrow. Write down the work you could complete, then ask which two or three tasks pass all six criteria. ### What does not qualify There are also five kinds of work to keep out of your Daily Highlights. Do not use a place for a routine you already do consistently. Do not use a place for a meeting that is already scheduled. Do not use a place for an autopilot task you know you will complete without much thought. Do not use a place for something trivial that does not challenge you. Do not use a place for work you are not confident you can complete. The goal is not to make the list look impressive. The goal is to select a small set you can take seriously and follow through on. ### The repeating rhythm Daily Highlights work as a loop. First, select tomorrow's two or three highlights at the end of the workday. Second, protect time for them in the next working day. Where it fits, give them attention in the first four to five working hours. Third, return to them during your end-of-workday close. Fourth, use what you noticed to choose the next set for tomorrow. The daily close takes three to five minutes and uses the same three questions. The first question is: Did I accomplish today's highlights? The second question is: Why or why not? Ask that with curiosity rather than guilt. You are looking for useful information about what helped or interrupted the work. The third question is: What are tomorrow's two or three highlights? That final question closes today's loop and creates tomorrow's starting point. ### When you miss a highlight You do not need a perfect streak for this to work. Treat 80 to 85 percent completion as success. Life happens, and a missed highlight does not mean you have failed. What matters is how you respond to the miss. Start by processing the feeling. Do not panic and do not rush past it. Pause, breathe, and let the feeling settle. Be patient and kind with yourself while still completing the reflection. Once you feel steadier, get curious about why you did not follow through. If something urgent and unexpected happened once, that is life happening. If the same distraction keeps returning, that is a pattern. A repeating pattern is the real issue to focus on. Name it honestly, look for a response, try that response, and ask for help where you need it. If the real issue is not addressed, it can keep interrupting the same important work. Pause and explain this idea out loud in your own words, as if a friend just asked you how it works. ### Choose tomorrow's highlights Now bring this into your real workday. List the work you could complete tomorrow. Run each possible highlight through the six criteria: aligned, effective, impactful, challenging, specific and tangible, and fulfilling. Remove the routines, scheduled meetings, autopilot tasks, trivial work, and anything you are not confident you can complete. Keep only two or three, with three as the cap. Write them somewhere visible before you finish the workday. That is the full practice. Choose with care, work on what matters, review with curiosity, and choose again. ### Close Before you move on, say out loud the one thing that surprised you in this video, and the first place you will use it. If I finish this video without tomorrow's highlights written down, then I will choose and write them somewhere visible by the same time tomorrow. One month from now, how will you know this video worked? Say it in one sentence before you move on. Before you close this video, drop one line in the community: what will you use tomorrow? Not what you liked, what you will actually use. You got this. ## Follow-up post seed Drop one line below and tell me one thing you have tried from this lesson. Even a small step counts. **Internal posting cue:** Post this the day after the video, resurface it one week later, and use it again one month later to ask what has become easier or what still needs support.