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The biggest time wasters

Meetings: Schedule your work time on your calendar.
Email: Most people simply spend too much time in their inboxes to accomplish anything of substance.
Multitasking:
It lowers productivity.
“Structured Procrastination”: Doing little things that give us the feeling of progress instead of deep work that really makes progress.

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How To Be Efficient: Dan Ariely's 6 New Secrets To Managing Your Time

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Personal Habits: How To Make Good Habits Stick, 6 Proven Secrets - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

We all want to get to the gym, be more productive, be kinder to our loved ones... and then we don't do it. Why? Well, building solid personal habits can be hard. In fact, research shows it takes an average of 66 days to build a new good habit.

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Focus On Keystone Habits

Keystone habits lead to the development of multiple good habits.

Exercise is a good example of this. Once you start to change your exercise habits, it sets off a chain reaction t...

Use “Minimum Viable Effort”

Focus on baby steps. The key to new good habits is to do the minimum and be consistent.

Do not be ambitious at the beginning. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for, so make the hurdle as low as possible.

Make A Plan

Thinking about the details makes you more likely to follow through.

Just writing down your plan also makes a big difference in effectively committing to your goals.

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This Is How To Resist Distraction: 4 Secrets To Remarkable Focus - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Have you said any of these recently? I get distracted and procrastinate. I make plans but I don't follow through on them. I get things done... but not the right things. The problem often comes down to just one word: "reactive." Maybe that wasn't the word you were expecting.

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When you’re reacting, you’re not in control of your life

Your brain reacts to the bombardment of environmental stimuli coming its way. But while you’re definitely doing something, you’re rarely achieving your goals...

Make distractions harder to reach

When you have fewer things to react to or you make it harder to react to them, you’ll be less reactive.

When faced with distraction, keep your goals in mind

Thinking about your long-term goals when you’re tempted by distraction gives your brain a sense of control and can release dopamine which will make you feel better and more motivated.

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Logan

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How to Turn Google Into the Best To-Do App Ever

For a certain kind of (slightly uptight) person, it's easy to spend far more time futzing with your to-do list than actually, you know, doing the things on it. You can spend hours playing with new apps-Wunderlist! Todoist! Any.do! Asana!-and new methods-Kanban! GTD! Pomodoro! The Eisenhower Matrix! These are all real things!

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Steps for Better Time Management

Add as much as you can into the system. You can email yourself things to do, or put them in your calendar, or take quick notes, or take a picture.
Process it all as fast as y...

Organizing Less And Doing More

It’s easy to spend time organizing a to-do list and forget to do the things in the list to avoid that:

Pick an app that will automatically sync information on multiple platforms so you have flexibility without the work it would take to update manually.
Use an app ecosystem that allows easy integration of calendars, to do lists and email for maximum efficiency.

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