Quotes About Productivity

if you can't see your rocks on your calendar, they might as well not exist. This is doubly important for things like sleep and exercise. If you don't put those in first, no one will.

Timothy Ferriss

Check e-mail twice per day, once at 12:00 noon or just prior to lunch, and again at 4:00 P.M. 12:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. are times that ensure you will have the most responses from previously sent e-mail. Never check e-mail first thing in the morning.12 Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading e-mail as a postponement excuse

Yes, I know we're all very busy, but what, exactly, is getting done? Are all those people running late for meetings and yelling on their cell phones stopping the spread of malaria or developing feasible alternatives to fossil fuels or making anything beautiful?

You should set up your life so that it is as comfortable and happy as possible—and so that it accommodates your creative work.

Timothy Ferriss

Improve it, eliminate it, or delegate it.

lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

determining which 20% of activities/tasks produce 80% of the results you want),

What if [you] just can't come up with 10 ideas? Here's the magic trick: If you can't come up with 10 ideas, come up with 20 ideas. . . . You are putting too much pressure on yourself. Perfectionism is the ENEMY of the idea muscle . . .

Me recomiendas algún otro sitio de la ciudad que pueda ser un buen sitio de trabajo para mí? Estoy totalmente decidido a dedicarme a esto. Realmente quiero saber cómo es".

lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take

Try it—write down a precise sequence of curse words that takes 7 to 10 seconds to read. Then, before a creative work session of some type, read it quickly and loudly like you're casting a spell or about to go postal. Eric also finds late nights, around 3 a.m., to be ideal for deep creative work.

Dr. B. J. Fogg, founder of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, wrote his graduate dissertation with a far less aggressive commitment. Even if he came home from a party at 3:00 A.M., he had to write one sentence per day. He finished in record time while classmates languished for years, overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. Understanding this

three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active?

Blinkist—an app that condenses nonfiction books into 15-minute reads.

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Make the time to do the things you want to do and then do them.

Para inscribirte en Instacart, por ejemplo, podrías usar [email protected]. Yo uso esta herramienta o me resulta de utilidad a diario.

Tony hace de nueve a diez minutos de lo que algunos considerarían meditación. Para

Productivity is for robots. What humans are going to be really good at is asking questions, being creative, and experiences.

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Robienie rzeczy niewa?nej sprawia, ?e nie zrobisz czego? wa?nego. Zadanie wymagaj?ce czasu wcale nie staje si? wa?ne tylko z tego powodu. Od tej chwili zapami?taj sobie na zawsze, ?e to, co robisz, jest niesko?czenie wa?niejsze od tego, jak to robisz. Wydajno?? jest wa?na, ale bezu?yteczna, je?li nie odnosi si? do w?a?ciwych rzeczy.