Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
When you’re trying something new, the idea that you should only begin when you feel confident to begin is a blocker all of its own. The solution? Just do it, even if you feel like you’re doing it badly.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
When you think you’ve communicated plenty, you almost certainly haven’t.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
IN SUMMARY Our second kind of burnout relates to rest time. Depletion burnouts result from not giving yourself enough time or space to truly recharge. The solution: understand how to rest in a way that energises you. The best way to rest is all about feeling calm. Or rather, CALM. Find an activity or project that makes you feel Competent,
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If it isn’t a ‘hell yeah’, it’s not worth doing.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Each main character begins their story as a young, inexperienced apprentice.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
The Reitoff principle is the idea that we should grant ourselves permission to write off a day and intentionally step away from achieving anything.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Find the Win. It involves celebrating something, however small, and however unrelated to your work. I like to use the format: ‘I didn’t do X, but I did do Y.’
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Do less, so that you can unlock more.
Ali Abdaal • Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You
Positive emotions are the fuel that drives the engine of human flourishing.