The Middle Way Method

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...

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...

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...

Last week, we explored the process of taking captured information from your LIFO and FIFO buffers and turning it into clarity and action. We walked through filtering items into tasks, goals, and projects, considering clarity, relevance, feasibility, and balance. We also introduced the Stalled Decision Framework and discussed how to...

Over the past week, we explored how to capture information effectively, balancing paper and digital tools to make sure nothing slips through the cracks. If you missed it, check out Mastering Capture: Balancing Paper & Pixels for a practical guide on setting up your capture systems and integrating them into...