Where the modules come from

Sort the week's tasks by two questions, is it urgent and is it important, and treat each of the four kinds differently.

At the end of each day, write the six most important tasks for tomorrow, in order. Tomorrow, work down the list.

The Bullet Journal's future log: six months with a few lines each, for dates too far ahead for this week's pages.

The Bullet Journal's index: topics and where they are in the book, so you can find things again.

Ideas and projects you are not doing yet but do not want to lose, kept where you will see them again.

What you are waiting for from other people: who, what, and since when.

Mark each task A, B or C by how much it is worth doing, then work through the A's first.

Benjamin Franklin's thirteen virtues, charted as he kept them: a line for each virtue, a column for each day, and a spot for every fault.

Write one goal five ways: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound.

Three good things from today, numbered, written down before bed.

Two columns, After I and I will, to tie each new habit to one you already do.

Three questions to start the day with, the way Marcus Aurelius started his: by deciding in advance how he would meet it.

Three questions answered before sleep, the way Seneca says he reviewed his day.

Two columns, for what is up to you and what is not: the division that Epictetus's handbook opens with.

Fifty-two circles, one for each week of the year, filled in as the weeks go by.

Once a week, picture losing something you value and how you would meet it, so that a loss never comes as a complete surprise.

Copy out a passage of the Tao Te Ching each day, then write what it says plainly and what it says underneath.

Once a week, write down where you pushed against something, and what yielding would have looked like.

Loving-kindness wished one person at a time, moving outward: yourself, someone you love, someone neutral, someone difficult, then all beings.

A short prayer at the end of the day, in the five steps St. Ignatius of Loyola set down nearly five hundred years ago.

The monastic way of reading scripture slowly, in four steps: read, reflect, respond, rest.

Scripture, Observation, Application, Prayer: copy out a passage, say what it says and what it means for you, then answer it in prayer.

Take one verse apart over a week: write it out, compare translations, follow its cross references, and note what it asks of you.

A week of the five daily prayers, with a box to mark each prayer on each day.

All thirty days of Ramadan on one page, with a box each day for the fast, night prayer, Quran reading, sadaqah and dhikr.

Thirty marks, one for each juz', so the whole Quran can be read in a month, as many do in Ramadan.

Thirty-three circles to fill in for a round of dhikr, the remembrance of God.

Work on one trait of character for a week, such as patience or humility, and mark each day you noticed it, practiced it and thought it over.

Forty-nine numbered marks for the Counting of the Omer, the seven weeks from the second night of Passover to Shavuot.

The week's Torah portion, what stood out in it, and what it asks of you.

A few minutes at the end of the day to look for resentment, selfishness, dishonesty and fear, as the Tenth Step asks.

The Fourth Step's resentment list, in four columns: who you resent, the cause, what it affects in you, and your own part.

A short list of what you are grateful for today, a habit many people in recovery keep every day.

Each contact with your sponsor this week: the date, whether you called and whether you spoke, and a note of what you talked about.

The meetings you went to this week, with the date, group and format, and room for a signature where a court or program asks for one.

Ninety cells, one for each meeting, toward the ninety meetings in ninety days often suggested to someone new to recovery.

Are you hungry, angry, lonely or tired? Rate each from one to five, so a hard moment has a likely cause written in front of you.