Where to find the hours to make it happen | Derek Sivers
Most of us don’t have a coach standing over us telling us when it’s time to throw in the towel and when we need to stand our ground. Without a single-minded focus, even obsession, it can be hard to justify spending time in the studio when you have a new baby at home, a work emergency, or a bad cold. The problem is, once you start prioritizing other
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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.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Most powerful people are on the manager's schedule. It's the schedule of command. But there's another way of using time that's common among people who make things, like programmers and writers. They generally prefer to use time in units of half a day at least. You can't write or program well in units of an hour. That's barely enough time to get sta... See more
Paul Graham • Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
From then on, any time the phrase “I’m too busy to . . .” popped into my head, I changed it to “I’ve chosen not to prioritize . . .” Now, instead of thinking “I’m too busy to write today,” I think “I’ve chosen not to prioritize writing today.” Instead of telling a client that I was too busy to get to their project, I told them that I had other thin
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