3-2-1: The Excuses We Live By, How to Handle Your Mistakes, and When Productivity Doesn't Matter
two venerable pieces of time management advice: to work on your most important project for the first hour of each day, and to protect your time by scheduling ‘meetings’ with yourself, marking them in your calendar so that other commitments can’t intrude. Thinking in terms of ‘paying yourself first’ transforms these one-off tips into a philosophy of
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
Everything takes time, so chopping off even small tasks can free you up to zoom in and obsess over the few key areas that matter.
Morten T. Hansen • Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
In your work, it’s not the speed in which you do everything, but the choice of what to focus on that brings the greatest returns. Doing the hard things that truly matter outweighs years of busyness spent on things that don’t.
- Do fewer things. 2. Work at a natural pace. 3. Obsess over quality.