Even if we know a larger, less-urgent task is vastly more consequential, we will instinctively choose to do a smaller, urgent task anyway. Yet again, thanks for nothing, brain. So what are we to do?
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The most successful people I know have one thing in common: they are masters at eliminating the unnecessary from their lives. The French writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry hit on the same idea, writing in his memoir, “Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away.” This principle, it turns out, is the key to success.
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First, our cognitive abilities don’t remain static over the course of a day. During the 16 or so hours we’re awake, they change—often in a regular, foreseeable manner. We are smarter, faster and more creative in some parts of the day than others.
Second, these daily fluctuations can be extreme. “The performance change between the daily high point and the daily low point can be equivalent to the effect on performance of drinking the legal limit of alcohol,”
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Is there a time of the day that you are most productive?
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The payoff, compared with the time invested (about three minutes per day) was so large that I saw no reason to stop. Tracking my time has changed how I think about my time.
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Would 3 minutes a day to ensure you stay on track?
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The foundation is understanding when in your life you were most successful, most productive, and when you were experiencing peak performance. This will be different for everybody, but this is my analysis and interpretation of how and when I function best, and if you are at all similar to me, use this methodology, and this guide, or at least some variation of it.
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Are you using Google effectively as possible?
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Busy people are hell-bent on fitting in more things into their day. Productive people cut their to-do list thoughtfully by 50 percent.
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Have you merged your contact lists?
It takes a little grunt work at the beginning, but after the initial setup, you can automatically add new contacts to your list as they come. But first, let’s compile your existing contacts into one, centralized location.
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It’s impossible to keep everything we need in our heads and choosing what to prioritize each day determines our results.
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Just as positive words can build us up, negative words have the power to cut us down.
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What have you been telling yourself lately?
We’ll take a look as to why to-do lists fail and whether an online solution is the way to go.
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If you don’t prioritize and maximize your morning hours, you’ll always be left wondering what your life could have been. You’ll never know what you could have had.
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When you do start to work?
If you use an iPhone or iPad, you owe it to yourself to be able to get the most out of your hardware, and the best way to do that is to know how to get the most of iOS 11.
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Most people I know who suffer from high levels of burnout, stress, and anxiety have one thing in common… They compare themselves forwards instead of backwards. What do I mean by this?
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There are loads of online photo editors out there, but we chose our 10 favorites because they are: Comparable to Photoshop…
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Singh said the goal was to make it possible for end users to never deal with a password in their day-to-day lives, and to provide instead user credentials that cannot be cracked, breached, or phished.
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We receive an average of 94 business emails every day and devote almost one-third of our time at work to email management. Bottom line: the benefits of email often come at the expense of productivity.
To reclaim your time, automate your inbox. Here are the tips, tools, and templates…
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This system was and is completely flexible and applicable to any business. You can add, remove, or even shift around any phase of the hiring process and you’ll be able to take candidate through a hiring, on-boarding, and training process…
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Your ability to distinguish urgent and important tasks has a lot to do with your success. Peter Drucker once said, “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
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How do you separate the urgent tasks from your truly important work, knowing all the rest are distractions?
Top performers did less and more: less volume of activities, more concentrated effort.
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“The illiterate of the 21st Century are not those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn,”
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Overwork kills your creativity because an idle brain is anything but idle. When you take time to rest, your Default Network lights up, connecting pieces of your brain that don’t usually talk to one another. The result is often bursts of inspiration and creativity….
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Have you ever noticed the answer you were looking for came first thing in the morning?
As a leader, you have more power than you think. You will get more of what you focus on. Next time you walk into a meeting, consider, How do I want people to feel when the meeting is over? Begin with the end in mind.
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5 Proven Benefits of Thankfulness
Thankfulness will not only make you happier, it will help you to achieve your very real goals. It will strengthen your relationships, help to maintain your health, and ultimately enable you to live a more productive life. You don’t have to take my word for it; the science of thankfulness is well documented. Here are five proven benefits of thankfulness to get you motivated.
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