Productivity
"Running one mile has more in common with running a marathon than sitting at home.
Investing $100 has more in common with being a millionaire than being broke.
Writing one sentence has more in common with writing a book than never writing one.
It always feels small in the beginning and the big goals seem far away. It's easy to talk yourself out of the
... See moreEffectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
Tim Ferrissx.com
It's going to take a long time.
Months at least. Probably years.
Accept that. Show up anyway. https://t.co/34jWqoowr1
‘the efficiency trap,’ to describe the way that when you get better and faster at dealing with an incoming supply of anything, you often end up busier and more stressed.
Oliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
‘Dailyish’ is a much more resilient rule: it’s less of a high-wire act, where one mistake could end everything. But emotionally speaking, it’s an unsettling rule to follow – because doing something dailyish requires sacrificing your fantasies of perfection in favor of the uncomfortable experience of making concrete, imperfect progress, here and
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts
The best way to not let a project’s spectacular success get you too high or its spectacular failure get you too low, Ryan likes to say, is to be already working on the next project by the time the many deciding factors decide that success or failure.
Everything you need to know about being a top performer: the hierarchy of helpfulness https://t.co/UNLV4Tguq0