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Finding balance in your life
One reader asked Tim Ferris how he incorporates the different facets into his life:
- being creative,
- getting stuff done, and
- finding time for self-reflection and contemplation,
considering that we all only have 24 hours in a day, and each endeavour can take your full attention.
Tim answers that you will never find balance. You have to create balance. You have to schedule it in your calendar in advance to cover these bases in your daily, weekly, or monthly life.
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Block time off in your calendar
The cost of daily switching between activities is extremely high and may not work very well.
- Instead, block out a day where you batch the productive things such as recording videos or phone calls with your team. Then try and cover the artistic and self-reflection on other days. ...
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Integrate various parts into your life
You have to put what you want to do on the calendar. If you don't, it's not real and you are not going to find balance. You have to fight every lesser tendency by putting it into the calendar.
This is the only way to integrate various parts into your life. If they are not in your calendar, ...
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- Create canned responses for emails you keep writing over and over again
- Set reminders in your Calendar so you never forget anything
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Have a structured work-life balance
- In order to have a structured work-life balance, you need to know your internal clock. Your circadian rhythm impacts your energy throughout the day and to be efficient you should match your chronotype with your work style.
- Proactively bucket your meetings into chunks. Arrange your ...
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