I set yearly, quarterly, monthly and weekly goals. Things I want to get done. Where I allocate my time and energy. What outcomes I expect. What does my reality look like in a month, 3 months, a year from now.
Accurate planning and breaking down bigger projects into organized chunks and individual actionable tasks took A LOT of time and is hard. So I almost never did it. And just freestyled. And my life was a fucking mess.
Now I have Planner Bro who takes care of everything. It does monthly review and planning sessions, checks in Wednesdays and Sunday, and every morning, before I open my Mac, my daily To-Do doc in Obsidian is updated and ready to be demolished. Even as retarded and lazy as I am, this makes work effortless. I don't have to think what to do, I just do it - knowing that in fact, it is the BEST thing I can be doing right now.