It’s not easy, but scaling back your information consumption will have a huge impact on your productivity.

Being selective and taking more intelligent action is the path to being highly productive. Focus on the important few and ignore or delegate the rest.

Companies of one need to be relentless in what they say no to, since plans, tasks, distractions, meetings, and emails, though they may all seem productive to a team at first, can become counterproductive quickly if not well managed. In saying no to anything that doesn’t fit, you leave room to say yes to those rare opportunities that do fit—opportun