Productivity
Let go of the thing that you’re trying to be (the noun), and focus on the actual work you need to be doing (the verb). Doing the verb will take you someplace further and far more interesting.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon
good time management depends on finding a way to live gracefully in this both/and (not either/or) place.
Pamela Kristan • Awakening in Time
Protect your momentum, and your client’s trust, by shutting it all off.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
Rookies think it’s because they didn’t work hard enough, but in reality it’s because they didn’t plan hard enough.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
I could spend my entire life checking off items on my to-do list, and in the end, it would make very little difference. I didn’t want my epitaph to read, “She got a lot of stuff done.” Instead, I had to figure out how I, and I alone, could make a difference—and this was as true for my homelife as it was for my professional one.
Tiffany Dufu
“What I need, what I am trying to build, is — I coin this phrase by analogy to a memory palace — an attention cottage . ... When I sit down in a chair with a book in my lap, a notebook at my side, and no screens within reach or sight, I am dwelling in my attention cottage.
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Alan Jacobs • 1, #86 - How to survive in a world of distraction
“The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty, and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from.” —Lynda Barry
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon
capturing things is the key to freelancing victory.
Aaron Mahnke • Frictionless Freelancing
The true test, though, is learning to guess at how long something will take