Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity

Some years back, I was counseling a chiropractor new to practice and advised her to close her office for one day a week, call that “Marketing Day,” and devote that entire day to calling patients, visiting health food stores, calling on businesses, giving speeches, and so on. Left to be “fit in” as time allowed, most of these very productive things

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If you have at any point in your life lived a relatively structured existence—probably due to some kind of job with regular office hours, meetings, and the like—you will know that there is nothing more liberating than looking at your calendar and seeing nothing but free time for weeks ahead to work on the most important things in whatever order you... See more

“If you don’t save a bit of your time for you, now, out of every week,” as she puts it, “there is no moment in the future when you’ll magically be done with everything and have loads of free time.” This is the same insight embodied in two venerable pieces of time management advice: to work on your most important project for the first hour of each d... See more