18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
Peter Bregmanamazon.com
18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
1. Your career is not your life2. Explore, then exploit3. Don't do the job you want to tell other people you do. Do the job you want to do.4. Be ruthlessly honest with yourself about what you value—and how much professional success matters to you5. Flow comes from voluntary, difficult, worthwhile work
The Atlantic • Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
if you plan to spend some of your four thousand weeks doing what matters most to you, then at some point you’re just going to have to start doing it.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues, with only infrequent counterbalancing to address them. In your personal world, awareness is the essential ingredient. Awareness of your spirit and body, awaren
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