Where to find the hours to make it happen | Derek Sivers
For starters, we can stop viewing our work as our lives and learn to distinguish the two or intertwine them. We can plan specific pursuits for our spare time, rather than flitting it away. We can take stock of how much free time we actually have and where it is going. Then, we can structure those hours and minutes to ensure they are used for someth... See more
Farnam Street • How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: Arnold Bennett on Living a Meaningful Life Within the Constraints of Time
Start by creating a two-hour Founder Time block on your calendar that recurs weekly, during a time of day when you are most energetic. As they say in personal finance, “pay yourself first.” Do not look for small segments sandwiched between others’ requests; reserve windows that suit you best. During that window, you can tackle strategies from this
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Greg McKeown, who wrote a phenomenal book on productivity called Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, boils this down to one key concept: Schedule two hours each day (i.e., put an event in your calendar) to work on your top goal only. And do this every single workday. Period.
Matt Mochary • The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
If you try to find time for your most valued activities by first dealing with all the other important demands on your time, in the hope that there’ll be some left over at the end, you’ll be disappointed. So if a certain activity really matters to you – a creative project, say, though it could just as easily be nurturing a relationship, or activism
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