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You don’t lack time. You just waste most of it on useless busyness.
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Time-blocking is an easy time-management hack by Cal Newport that takes just a minute but leads to so much clarity in your day.
The night before, simply divide the coming day into 30-minute blocks (or 5-minute blocks if you’re Elon Musk) and assign tasks to them.
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Whenever you start doing your work, set a timer for like an hour, or maybe 40 minutes. Whatever works for you.
Here’s why: a timer anchors you to the task at hand and makes distractions almost impossible. Because your mind knows the timer is on, it’s going to stay focused. ...
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Eating the frog is basically doing the most challenging and dreaded task of the day. And while you’re time-blocking it the night before, it’s best to schedule it first thing in the morning.
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You’ve heard of visualization as a technique to improve your future. However, visualizing a bright future alone won’t do much if you’re not willing to dial it down to the present and inculcate the needful habits to convert those imaginations into reality.
This helps you double-ancho...
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An ordinary boy who is indiscriminately passionate about many things, develops the frontend of websites, a graphics designer, a bibliophile, Loves to learn and grow, and write. | In search of infinity!
These four, if practiced together, are genuinely a lethal combination that will kill procrastination.
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Successful people know what they don’t need to know and they don’t waste effort trying to learn it.
But most people feel pressure to know a lot of useless stuff because it will save them the embarrassment of ever appearing to not know something.
If you have a pending task that requires no more than two minutes of your time, don’t waste time writing it on a to-do list. Just get it done.
Most people prize “being busy.” They proclaim it with pride as if it’s a badge of honor.
But extremely successful people don’t tolerate busywork or distraction. Because most of the time "busyness" is nothing more than distraction and procrastination from what really matters.
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