• Courage is in choosing to work less because we are confident in our own productivity time, even if that means having a 5-hour workday.
• It is having a difficult conversation with someone at work.

One reason we work too hard is that we are using that hard work to make up for a lack of courage.

Example: Instead of firing the team member who is dragging down the project, we work harder to make up for them. Firing them takes courage.

It means scheduling your time according to your natural rhythms:

• Do your most important work at the beginning of the day if you are a morning person.
• Don't feel bad about sleeping in because you stayed up late at night to work if you are a night owl.

Acquire new skills that will help you get more things done in less time.

• Consume information and learn about other people from your field, about their mistakes and methods.
• Apply what you learn.

• Find an Accountability Buddy
• Create a morning ritual for the first hour of your morning
• Use the Pomodoro Technique to break your work into chunks
• Make a “Not-To-Do List” with the things that waste your time
• Use freelancing platform to outsource tasks 
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