STEP ONE
This is the first step in your 30-minute Daily Meeze that involves clearing physical and digital clutter from your workspace.
What is "clean your station"?
This Daily Meeze component is a quick one (1-5 mins), focusing on ensuring your planning tools are in order.
What is "sharpen your tools"?
This mise component involves reviewing your schedule and priorities for the upcoming day.
What is "plan your day"?
The final component of daily mise involves collecting everything you need for the day ahead.
What is "gather your resources"?
This four-letter acronym helps Charnas remember to grab his Bags, Umbrella, Caps, and Keys before leaving the house.
What is "BUCK"?
This word describes the lively, efficient energy you should bring to organizing your workspace each day.
What is a hustle?
Charnas suggests grouping incoming actions from different missions into these organized sequences, such as "calls to return" or "errands to run."
What are routines?
Charnas quotes Coco Chanel’s advice to “look in the mirror and take one thing off” as a metaphor for doing this to your schedule.
What is underscheduling / reducing one task?
Charnas recommends this number of days as a sufficient commitment to start your daily mise practice and form the habit.
What is 40 days?
This term refers to the brief period at the start of your workday when office workers might spend time catching up on emails, voicemails, and paperwork.
What is process work?
"Clean your station” includes gathering every to-do hiding in your email, notebook, apps, sticky notes, or bag and putting them in one system. What does Charnas call all these?
What are inputs?
This 1 to 5-minute routine done between appointments is the "desk-bound equivalent of cleaning as you go" and helps reinforce arranged spaces.
What is Transition Meeze?