Three mindsets to make your life better:

1. Abundance mindset
2. Positive mindset
3. Growth mindset

• Self-discipline is a muscle that gets stronger the more you use it.
• Focus on efforts, not outcomes.

An agile life is one that can easily respond to change. Where you’re not overly constrained by rigid planning, but can rather adapt and get things done in a way that fits your goals and the constant randomness of life.

• Don’t set static rigid goals, keep testing and adjusting as you g...

The Top five productivity pitfalls are:

1. Analysis paralysis
2. Do it when you feel like it
3. Don’t know the work to be done
4. Lack of boundaries
5. Perfectionism

If you have motivation without technique, you’re just a motivated idiot. If you hav...

• Don’t base your day on what you didn’t get done in the past. Base it on what you want to accomplish now, what will have the biggest impact now.
• Set a weekly reflection for what went well, what didn’t, what you got done, what you want to do in the future.
• Taking action is the ...

Focus on 3 goals for the day, week, month, year. Make them feed up from one to the next, and work them down when setting new ones. So the day goals fit the week goals, etc. Adjust as necessary.

Carve out a chunk of your life force for making improvements and leading the life you want to liv...

Time management is less important than energy management. Spend your best energy on your most important work, and everything else will follow.

The key isn’t to have some huge long term plan but to rather know the next vital few things you need to do to hit the goal you want to accomplish.

• Do the worst things first. Sometimes they’re the most important, and then you won’t dread them all day.
• Find your “power hours” and focus on getting more of them in your day (see Deep Work).
• Create a shutdown routine for the end of your day to help yourself unwind and get out...