3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts
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3-2-1: When to be patient, why we procrastinate, and the importance of early attempts
3) The Have-To-Dos may happen, but not the Want-To-Dos. Even if the procrastinator is in the type of career where the Panic Monster is regularly present and he’s able to be fulfilled at work, the other things in life that are important to him—getting in shape, cooking elaborate meals, learning to play the guitar, writing a book, reading, or even ma... See more
waitbutwhy.com • Why Procrastinators Procrastinate — Wait but Why
You will accomplish more with a singular focus than by ricocheting through your inbox.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
Typically, people overwhelm themselves with tasks in their eagerness to make a change successfully. But that’s a mistake. Instead, they should take the time up front to figure out the one and only thing that will have the highest impact and then focus 100 percent of their effort on that one thing.
Peter Bregman • 18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
To review, we all tend to focus nearly exclusively on activities that are either due today or coming up within the next 1.5 weeks. The existence of that 1.5 week time period represents the central premise of Part I of this book—that we all have a Workday Now, a unique chunk of time in our mental model about work. Many of us say that period is like
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