Organize Tomorrow Today

The Lie That Keeps You Busy

Here's a question that should make you uncomfortable. When was the last time you ended a workday feeling like you'd actually moved the needle, rather than just survived the avalanche? Most of us are drowning in activity and starving for progress. We answer the emails, attend the meetings, cross off the small stuff, and somehow the things that matter keep sliding to tomorrow. We've been sold a story that the cure is more. More hustle, more hours, more tasks crammed into the same shrinking day.

Jason Selk and Tom Bartow want to free you from that story. Their core message in *Organize Tomorrow Today* is almost rude in its simplicity: doing more is not the answer. Greatness, they argue, doesn't come from being brilliant. It comes from being consistent. From doing a few of the right things, every single day, especially on the days you don't feel like it.

What makes this book different from the mountain of productivity advice out there is where it comes from. Selk spent six seasons as the Director of Mental Training for the St. Louis Cardinals, a stretch that produced three division titles and two World Series rings. Bartow built the most respected advisor training program at Edward Jones, then went to American Funds and helped engineer a year with sixty-five billion dollars in new cash inflows, a record for the entire mutual fund industry. One man trains elite athletes. The other trains elite businesspeople. And they discovered the same thing: the best in any field are wired almost identically, and the gap between the great and the average comes down to how they think and how they prepare. Both of those, mercifully, can be learned.