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If you're interested in a morning routine that many of the most creatively and financially successful leaders on the planet are now using, then you really want to watch this episode now.

Photo by Stas Knop on Pexels.com A troll on Reddit[1. Can you believe such a thing?] had a post in r/books that berated anyone who considered listening to an audiobook “reading.” Their …

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Here are the best books to help you build a personal knowledge management system. From atomic notes to Zettelkasten, these books will teach you how to build a digital note taking system.

You probably need to do fewer things right now. Prioritization, the other definition There’s two loose definitions of prioritization. Prioritization(1): Ordering a todo list. You make a giant list of things you could do, things you should do, things you’d like to do… and then you put a unique number...

In a culture so focused on managing time, we have become subservient to it.

In 2021 I began to dissect my lifelong problem of severe procrastination, instead of just wrestling with it. I used to see it as a simple character flaw, a ball and chain hanging from my wrist as I tried to fulfil life’s requirements. Now I think of my capacity for getting things done (or not) more as a semi-functional Rube

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It takes the sender 15 seconds to write. Yet it takes you 15 minutes to respond. Why tasks don't belong in your email.

See discussion on Hacker News (a) (610 points, 156 comments) I combed through several years of my private notes and through everything I published on productivity before and tried to summarize all of it in this post. If you’re unproductive right now Here’s what you should do if you’ve been procrastinating for an entire day: Accept that you won’t do anything today and try not to get angry at yourself Set the alarm for the time you will be preparing to go to bed today No, …

Time management systems have failed us. What's the secret to being organized and getting more done? Here's what really works...

Photo: CyboRoz I was stressed out… over dog cartoons. It was 9:47pm at Barnes and Noble on a recent Saturday night, and I had 13 minutes to find a suitable exchange for “The New Yorker Dog Cartoons…

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Staying in touch with people is one of these asymmetric habits that require little effort, time and resources but has an unlimited upside.

I don’t use Roam anymore. Why?

Last week, the American figure skater Nathan Chen, a favorite to win gold in the 2022 Olympics, lived up to expectations. In a four-minute free skate performance that included five quadruple jumps, and a joyous dance break, he earned the medal that had eluded him four years earlier in Pyeongchang. Many of you sent me

I recently discovered a simple step-by-step process that significantly increased my personal productivity and made me happier along the way.

A system to organise projects.

I have become very fond of iOS widgets both on my iPad and iPhone. On the iPad, it functions as a dashboard into all my important apps and…

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A reader named Alexander recently pointed me toward an essay he wrote about his experiment avoiding social media for all of 2021. What caught my attention is the fact that Alexander runs an online business as a freelance copywriter. I frequently hear from people who are exhausted by the frenetic, anxiety-inducing churn of social media, […]

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If you’re feeling creative, do the errands tomorrow. If you’re fit and healthy, take a day to go surfing. When inspiration strikes, write it down. The calendar belongs to everyone else.…

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