Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
If you don’t know when you’re doing something, chances are you won’t do it.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
If they can, you can too.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
As we’ve seen, it’s not possible to completely eradicate distraction. So you need to give yourself permission to be distracted. Think of distraction as a temporary veering off-track – not an indication that it’s time to abandon your plans altogether. As long as we correct course, we’ll still end up at our intended destination.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
This study shows that simply by becoming your own hype team you can dramatically impact your own productivity.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
My imaginary faux pas taught me a powerful lesson. I’d overestimated the degree to which others noticed and judged my actions.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Feeling confident about our ability to complete a task makes us feel good when we’re doing it, and helps us do it better.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Simply switching their mindset from ‘have to’ to ‘choose to’ they boosted their sense of control, power and, in turn, what they were capable of.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
When we can’t take ownership of the situation, we can still take ownership of the process.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Overexertion burnouts, I realised, come from the negative emotions that arise when we do too much, too fast. We accept more work than we can do, and fail to take the breaks in our working day that we require. We sprint all the time.