[6:10] In a study doe by Fishbach, it found that if you are continuously doing things that you don't enjoy, or forcing yourself to do work when you're finding it unenjoyable, it can lead in the long term to procrastination or failure on these tasks.

[2:11] I keep in mind that I'm going to have less energy throughout the day and things are going to get more and more tempting throughout the day, so it's going to be much harder for me to resist things as the day progresses. Keeping these two things in mind, every single day of my week from a macro standpoint gets divided into three main parts.

[4:04] If I have to do something, or if I have to work for something in the week, the first question I will ask myself is how likely am I to not want to do this task, and how much energy will this take. So, depending on these two factors, it will either go into any part of my day.

[11:24] ...this will be physically blocked into my calendar ... it's not like this ... terrible thing that dictates my life and just schedules all my work things, it's kind of my life on a screen in a positive way, because I can organize it and put in whatever I want.

[3:27] And the last part of my day is where I have the lowest energy and the highest ability to be tempted by other tasks, so this is where procrastination is very easy... this is for things that I would actually like to spend my time on, that don't particularly require huge amounts of energy. (Low Energy + High Temptation)

[5:45] Getting comfortable with not accomplishing tasks and using a calendar more as an inspiration and a guide as to what I want to spend my life with tends to be really, really helpful, and I found that going from not putting things in my calendar if I'm afraid I won't complete them because it will really bother me, to actually putting them in my... See more

[1:18] The 3 Part Split

[12:13] Not only are we easily distracted by mundane thoughts, but we also routinely forget small but important things when we don't externalize them.[12:24] So it's quite important to take all our things that we want to do and things that we are planning to do, and kind of write them down... I like just pulling up my calendar and finding a slot so... See more

[10:26] The Fun Factor