The 1-Day Method

In January 2025, our house burned down in the Los Angeles fires.

When I say burned down, I mean it doesn't exist. What was left standing was a chimney and a mailbox.

My wife opened the mailbox. Inside were the Christmas thank-you letters we'd written and never gotten around to sending. Untouched. We mailed them.

That's the part I keep coming back to. Not the loss. The letters we almost didn't send.

I'd spent years building a life around five-year plans. Then I watched most of it turn to ash in an afternoon. The plans weren't what held my life together. The days were. The unphotographed Tuesday-afternoon ones.

This book is what I learned about that. I wrote it two months after the fire. Jon Gordon and Dan Charnas both put their names on it.

Inside:

• What to do when your to-do list has thirty things on it and you've finished none of them
• Why the last hour of your night decides the first hour of your morning
• The three-priority rule that replaces goal setting, quarterly planning, and most productivity systems
• Sweat. Connect. Grow. Unplug. Finish. The five daily practices, and how long each one actually takes
• Why "I'll start Monday" is the most expensive sentence in your vocabulary

It's short on purpose. About a two-hour read. No system to install, no app to download, no morning routine to optimize.

This is for you if you're doing fine on paper and still end most days wondering where they went.

It's not for you if you want a time-management framework with a diagram and an acronym. I'd rather say that now than take your money.

I'm not going to tell you this book will change your life. I don't know your life. I can tell you that writing it is how I got my footing back.

You don't get five years. You get today.

Start with this one.

The 1-Day Method™ Planner, sold separately, is where the five practices actually live. You don't need it. It helps.

-Antonio Neves