3-2-1: Eliminating Tasks, Optimizing for Your Interests, and Sharing Knowledge - James Clear
PRINCIPLE #1: DO FEWER THINGS Strive to reduce your obligations to the point where you can easily imagine accomplishing them with time to spare. Leverage this reduced load to more fully embrace and advance the small number of projects that matter most.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
Here’s a great general framework for how to do this: Decide on your values and priorities in life. What three things matter most to you? Observe for a week the way you spend the time available to you. Log every hour and what you do with it. Analyze this data: where do you spend the most time? And least time? Finally, look to see if how you actually
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A monthly ritual that changed my life (and may change yours)...
The Think Day:
Pick one day each month and carve out a few hours to step back from all of your day-to-day professional demands:
• Separate from your normal environments
• Bring a journal, pen, and open mind
• Shut off all your devices.
The goal is to spend the time thinking and jo... See more
Creating an earned life is first and foremost a matter of scale—of going really big on the important things that keep you on message, small on the things that do not influence the outcome. This is the secret of living an earned life: It is lived at the extremes. You are maximizing what you need to do, minimizing what you deem unnecessary.