how to get stuff done

The lesson is that you find out what it’s like to properly care about something and whether or not what you’re doing matters. Otherwise, you’d yield.

It’s any time someone hesitates to make the thing they desperately want to make because they succumb to the avoidable things that kill creativity. There is never enough money or time. You will never feel you have enough knowledge. There are no perfect market conditions. Ideas never (read: shouldn’t) come with a guarantee of success. Just make the t

Nir shares a useful protocol for identifying your internal triggers and working through them. It’s part journaling, part meditation:

1. First keep a notebook or digital note handy while working. You’ll use this to track your internal triggers.




2. As you work, pay attention to when you seek out distraction. At that very moment, write down the thoughts and f

2. Don’t divide your attention: focusing on one thing yields increasing returns for each unit of effort.

At a micro level, an extra hour of focus on the current project has a much higher return than an hour on something new, or worse, 5 minutes each on 12 new things. Before you ever do something new, you should understand the opportunity cost vs.

Don’t waste time talking about what you plan to think about; instead, work through it immediately.

Intellectual laziness can easily sneak up on you. If you are sitting there talking about problems you plan to solve later, there’s a good chance you are being inefficient. Similarly, in GTD, you don’t put off tasks that only take a couple minutes. In