Unlock the secrets to supercharged productivity and discover how to accomplish more in a week than most people do in a month. Prepare to redefine your work ethic, optimize your time, and transform your daily routine.
Urgency wrecks productivity
Urgent but unimportant tasks are major distractions
- The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent
- Separate important tasks from urgent ones
- To maximize time and do more focused work, question your choices constantly
- Develop the ability to watch your mind as it gets whipped up by sudden requests
A simple system to change how you work
Set a very clear intention of how your day will go the next morning
- Visualize this intention and write it down into your schedule
- Before the day ends, identify and write down the best actions to-do list
- Every morning, focus on completing your action list from yesterday before midday
Adopt the 1-3-5 method to create and manage your action list for the day
On any given day, assume that you can only accomplish one big thing, three medium things, and five small things and narrow down your to-do list to those nine items
- A daily priority list gives you a great roadmap to follow and avoids feeling overwhelmed
What’s on your plate?
Prioritize your tasks and work on the most important ones first thing in the morning, when you are most active.
- Question your choices constantly, and develop the ability to recognize tasks that just distract you from your real work.
Stop Feeding Your Distractions
Your life keeps diminishing while you waste your time feeding your distractions
- Take control of your time and start distributing it right
- Start by reviewing your daily routine
- Track your daily activities for some time to clearly see where your time is being spent
- Analyze the actual time you spend on each activity with what you think is the best amount for each
- Adopt the “one thing” approach
- Schedule everything in advance
- Make a plan and know what’s going on each day
