The Middle Way Method
Where Top-Down Meets Bottom-Up
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Insight Capture: Turning Observation into Action
Last week, we explored the Weekly Review — Bringing System into Action and how taking a few deliberate moments to assess your week can bring clarity and direction. That process sets the stage for making your daily actions more intentional and aligned with your priorities. This week, we focus on...
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Weekly Review: Bringing Your System into Action
Last week, we focused on turning tasks into action during the Daily Review. You can revisit that approach here to see how capturing, clarifying, and executing tasks each day lays the foundation for effective weekly planning. Reflecting on your past week consolidates learning, maintains momentum, and prepares you to act...
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Daily Review: Turn Tasks into Action
Last week’s article looked at how to align your day with intention and identify the tasks that genuinely matter. If you missed that foundation, you can find it here: Daily Review — Align Your Day With Action. This week sharpens the focus. Instead of talking about why the Daily Review...
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The Daily Review: Align Your Day with Action
The Middle-Way Mastery series builds a simple, sustainable rhythm of reflection and execution. Daily Reviews guide what you do today, Weekly Reviews course-correct the week, and the Yearly Review keeps your direction aligned with who you’re becoming. Each layer builds on the previous one: Daily Reviews (clarity and action), Reflection...
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Capture Workflow: Input, Process, Execute
Capturing what matters is the foundation of the Middle-Way Method. Over the past several weeks, we’ve explored the essentials of capture: identifying valuable information, staging it in LIFO and FIFO buffers, choosing the right analog and digital tools, and processing items into meaningful tasks, goals, and projects. If you missed...