5. What About Me Time

• Managers can work in time blocks of 30 or 60 minutes, scheduling meetings or sending emails.
• Makers need almost half a day to get down and create something, requiring an uninterrupted focus mode that is nearly impossible.

What complicates matters is that many...

• Trying to focus on more than one thing at a time reduces your productivity by as much as 40%. That’s the cognitive equivalent of pulling an all-nighter.
• The average desk job employee loses 2.1 hours a day to distractions and interruptions. That add...

You don't have to do much of anything beyond making a simple decision to do or to delete.

If the deleted item is a simple activity that won't bring you results, remove it from your to-do list and move on with your day. The second most pleasing thing after completing a to-do list is r...