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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 about helps you find meaning in your life.

Finding meaning in the work you do is the ultimate productivity hack.

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Give up Luck

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...

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Give up Starting with ‘Yes’ to a Request of Your Time

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.

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Give up Chasing Grandiose Moments

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...

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Give up Preachers of Chaos

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...

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Give up Taking Calls While Sitting Down

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.

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Give up Overworking Yourself to Death

  • 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...

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Give up Being an Asshole

Delete the drama from your life, and you’ll have more time to do cool shit.

Evil plans are exhausting. Revenge takes the focus off your goals, and onto meaningless goals. You can’t right every wrong. You can’t fix every broken person.

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Give up a Calendar Without Blank Space

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.

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Give up a Full Email Inbox

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

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“Don’t spend (free) time you haven’t earned. The disciplined earner can be a guilt-free spender”

JAMES CLEAR

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Give up Bad Productivity Apps

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 ;) )

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Give up Focusing on Outcomes

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 ...

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Give up Making Lots of Decisions Each Day

  • 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...

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Give up Having Too Many Goals

If you feel like you’re achieving nothing in your life, experiment with having less goals. Your heroes who achieve seemingly impossible goals focus on doing one thing when you look closely.

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Give up Working Without a Deadline

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...

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