How You Spend Your Time

Proper sleep is one of the most significant performance enhancers we have.

Sleep deprivation decreases immunity and increases symptoms of anxiety and depression. 

To make a 3-hour workday feasible, design the right environment to make it possible.

• Behavior is the result of environment. If you have many apps open, you’ll be more likely to be distracted.
• Eliminate the need for willpower. Think of willpower like a bank balance...

We don't change the world by looking at emails. It only diverts our attention. We usually spend  3-5 hours a day on email.

• Compose the emails you plan to send in another tool to your email client to help you avoid your inbox.
• Set up a separate email address for subscriptions an...

• Starting your day on the internet
• Turning on your devices first thing in the morning. 

It puts you into a...

A distraction is anything that is competing for your attention and unrelated to the work you're doing at the moment.

• Visual distraction: If you're working in one application and you see a notification pop up, that is a visual distraction. 
• Auditory distraction: An...

The structure of most working environments punishes people for efficiency and rewards them for looking busy. We need to shift our focus from the number of hours spent on something to the quality generated.

Knowledge workers aren't factory workers. There is no direct correlation between how much time they spend on the job and their output.

For knowledge workers, the 8-hour workday doesn’t make sense. It doesn't account for diminishing returns with our productivity and attention spans. To incre...

It might be tempting to think you need a social media footprint to build your brand. However, as Oprah Winfrey stated, "The brand comes from the work you do."

Quitting social media for 30 days can increase your productivity. Interleaving social media with your work shifts your atten...

Workflow is a step-by-step break down of the process you use to complete any of your work. Any part of your workflow where data is collected can be automated. For every workflow, ask yourself 3 questions:

• What are the steps?
• What are the tools you can use...

Any workflow that has repetition can be changed into a system.

If you've spent the last few years clicking and updating your social media, don't expect that you'll be able to focus with unbroken concentration for an hour. You will need to use interval training to increase your attention span.

Start with 10 minutes, then 20, and progressively ...