Give up Having Too Many Goals

You won’t get lucky and find time. The holidays are not the answer to your unfinished dreams. Retirement isn’t either.

Productive people don’t get lucky. No, they get intentionally lucky by doing the tasks that matter each day to them and what they...

Deadlines make you superhuman.

Without a deadline, you’ll dream about your productive future and doing the task you’ve been putting off until “tomorrow.” Tony Robbins says it best: “When would now be a good...

• What do you eat today?
• What do you wear today?
• How will you get to the office today?
• What route will you take to the supermarket?

These decisions take away energy from you. Decisions are energy leaks. Pr...

• Overworking isn’t productivity.
• Inspiration comes from rest.

The work you do when you’re tired and pissed off from working too hard and aiming for productivity perfection will be terrible.

During your time off your brain re...

Jump on a trampoline while you’re on the phone. Walk if you don’t own a trampoline. Movement is life. When you move, you feel good. You can make time to move (exercise) or you can exercise while doing tasks that must be done, like chatting to other humans.

They can find a problem with everything. “The world is coming to an end.” We’ve heard it all before, pal.

Preachers of chaos take up your time...

Ever used Microsoft OneNote? Kill me now.

Some of the best Productivity apps out there are:

• Trello
• Notion
• Roam Research
• Keep Notes (by Google)
• Pocket
• Deepstash (see what I did there ;) )

Leave blank space in your calendar to think.

The goal isn’t to have a full calendar. The goal is to have a calendar that lets you read, learn, and speak to new people when you want.

The grandiose moments you think about in your dreams, that will shape your destiny, rarely happen. One-off, big time, one-hit wonders are a fantasy. Chase small moments. Chase small actions, taken daily.

It’s the little actions you take eve...

These are a few of the things my productive friends have taught me over the years through giving up. I don’t follow all of them and you probably won’t either. But these thoughts act as the potential for future thoughts you might have. Being productive towards a goal you care abou...

If you’re not sure about a request of your time, start with no.

Yes is your default response when you feel guilty. It’s your time you’re giving up. Don’t feel guilty.

A process beats focusing on an outcome.

An outcome requires finite willpower. A process is a proven strategy you can follow that puts most of the tasks on auto-pilot for you. Writer, Nicolas Cole, has a writing process he has used ...

Delete a message or archive it if you think you’ll need it later — you probably won’t. A full email inbox is a distraction. The joy you get looking at an empty inbox is worth every second of ruthless prioritization of emails