Today every “must do” gets me one step closer to living my goal!

Some of what you must do today is your goal wearing a dull costume — the unglamorous call, the form nobody wants to fill in, the reconciliation you keep circling. It rarely looks like progress while you're doing it.

The rest is upkeep, and upkeep is what keeps the ground steady enough to build on. Clean clothes and a paid bill are not the goal, but the goal does not survive long without them.

Go through today's list and mark which is which. Give the load-bearing two or three your real attention, and move through the rest without ceremony.