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Benjamin Franklin’s calendar
In his calendar, work periods were broken up by periods of rest, conversation, reading, and boredom.
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Free time is a “call option” on future interesting opportunities
When you have free time, you have the headspace and bandwidth to pursue new ideas. Free time increases your serendipity surface area.
The idea that free time is bad is one of the greatest lies you’ve been told.
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All growth requires balance
Ideas are executed during periods of work but formed during periods of free time & boredom.
- Muscle is trained during exercise, but grown during recovery.
- Minds are engaged with togetherness but fortified with solitude.
Find balance...
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Embrace the role of free time and rest in your life.
It’s an asset, not a liability. It’s not about a “break” from productivity.
It’s an integral part of your productivity.
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A major key to avoiding burnout
We have to reframe rest and recovery as a core part of our daily systems, not a reward for our efforts.
We don’t need to “earn” our recovery—it should be a central part of our ritual that allows us to thrive.
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The value of rest
Many of history’s highest achievers were aware of the value of rest:
John D. Rockefeller would take regular breaks from his notoriously demanding schedule to mill about in his garden—it was his personal escape.
Takeaway: When you sprint, sprint hard. When you rest, rest hard....
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One idea to try
- Take 15-minute tech-free walks throughout the day to break up blocks of focused work.
- The walk will provide a reset and let your thoughts and ideas mingle.
- The walk is just as much a contributor to the output as the focused work itself.
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"A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." - Patton
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Use the Pomodoro Technique
Work in sprints, followed by periods of rest.
The Pomodoro Technique is all about taking advantage of our natural rhythms of energy and fatigue: You work in 90-minute intervals, followed by 30 minutes of rest between each interval.
Calendar
- The productivity community follows this philosophy: If it's not in my calendar, it didn’t happen.
- The calendar is the dashboard of our life, letting us visualize our weeks and months.
- Putting things on the calendar is both a to-do list task and a reminder, with t...
The Handy Calendar
The important, big things can be 'baked-in' your calendar, while you keep track of meetings and appointments.
The Might-Do list acts as your goals list that you will incorporate in your coming days while doing your routine work.
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