<ul><li>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.</li><li>It is having a difficult conversation with someone at work.</li></ul>

Apply Courage to Your Work

Acquire new skills that will help you get more things done in less time.<ul><li>Consume information and learn about other people from your field, about their mistakes and methods.</li><li>Apply what you learn.</li></ul>

Learn New Skills

It means scheduling your time according to your natural rhythms:<ul><li>Do your most important work at the beginning of the day if you are a morning person.</li><li>Don't feel bad about sleeping in because you stayed up late at night to work if you are a night owl.</li></ul>

Prioritize Tasks by Energy Level

<ul><li>Find an Accountability Buddy</li><li>Create a morning ritual for the first hour of your morning</li><li>Use the Pomodoro Technique to break your work into chunks</li><li>Make a “Not-To-Do List” with the things that waste your time</li><li>Use freelancing platform to outsource tasks </li><li>Batching similar tasks into one chunk.</li><li>Practice systems like David Allen’s Getting Things Done for task management.</li></ul>

Use Popular Productivity Hacks

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.

Courage And Working Smarter

Hard work is necessary in order to be productive, but there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.At some point, you start to be negatively productive.

The Dose-Response Theory 

We do it because it's the most visible form of productivity. 
It is a way to prove to others that you are doing stuff and checking things off the list.

Working Harder isn’t the Answer

The reason most people trying to be more productive start at working harder is that it's the most visible form of productivity. As I've continued to study successful people and meet some people that I would consider successful, the biggest factor in their success is courage.

Courage And Working Smarter

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