Mind hack that has worked well for me for either macro or micro decisions:
"What is the most important question I have been actively ignoring?"
I practice a new habit: if I’m stressed or anxious - I work out. Been doing this for 2 months. Result -> best shape in 2 years.
I think I found a sane approach to “life” todo workflow. Backlog -> Needs Action <-> Needs Reaction -> Done.
Workspaces ranked by productivity:
The maximum success is reached when you are never busy.
It is easiest to do the most when you have nothing to do.
Knowledge Work 101:
People over-estimate what they can accomplish with ten hours of distracted work and under-estimate what they can accomplish with two hours of undistracted work.
Focus is everything.
People tend to avoid the important work they fear by doing unimportant work that wears them out.
They suppress anxiety with exhaustion, but they do not address the source of the problem.
Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is eliminate the task.
The interruptions and resulting small chunks of time are why you need to work 60 hour weeks to get 35 hours of actual work done.
You don’t need any more hours in the day, you just need to spend them better.
Productivity is for machines, not for people. There’s nothing meaningful about packing some number of work units into some amount of time, or squeezing more into less. Think about how effective you’re being, not how productive you’re being.
Habits are easy to keep up as soon as you stop treating them like chores to reach a distant goal and start treating them like little adventures every single day.
When you've gotten enough sleep, an impossible task becomes an interesting challenge.
"Plans are great. But missions are better. Missions survive when plans fail, and plans almost always fail." - Seth Godin
3 Hard Truths You Must Accept:
Improvement or decline is a reflection of your daily habits.
Capisce?
Tip: Break tasks you procrastinate into smaller, low-energy ones. It helps.
We procrastinate if a task is...
Knowing why helps.
Okay I am okay at the productivity thing.
My philosophies:
"Многие зависшие дела могут сдвинуться с мертвой точки в результате действия, на которое требуется не более 2 минут" Дэвид Аллен.
Секрет всех деятельных людей прост — энергия рождается в самом действии.
