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9 Best Productivity Tips – STP023


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Episode 23 -  In this episode, I've researched 152 different productivity and efficiency tips, to find you the best. These 9 will make a big difference to how much stuff you can get done - freeing you up to spend more time doing the stuff you really WANT to do. Enjoy!

Some of the stuff in there is:

* How Eating The Frog will mean you actually get things done
* Why you should Ditch The Phone to concentrate
* Automate Or Eliminate - how they can save you time

* The Brainscape.com study on shortcuts saving you 8 days per year
* Michael Hyatt's book - The Virtual Assistant Solution


* What Clutter can do to reduce your productivity and how to sort it -  according to Forbes
* Batching

* What it looks like in - Getting Things Done by David Allen
* The Pomodoro technique - some more info here


* Looking After Yourself - what Lifehack.com says about a 2005 study

* How we covered morning routines - in episode STP012
* And the importance of sleep - in episode STP022


* Taking Breaks

* How it increases performance according to a study - from the University of Illinois


* To-do lists don't work - we explain the difference between 'to-do' and 'Must-Do'

* Peter Bregman's version from his - 18 Minutes Book
* What Josh Kauffman says about 'MIT's' in - The Personal MBA


* The Force Multiplier - Killer Schedule

* How to make it actually work
* What 2 things - and ONLY 2 things should be on your schedule


* The other tips which didn't make the top 9 - but were still useful:

* The 2 minute rule
* Planning email - covered in episode STP020
* Make goals - again covered in two previous episodes STP018 and STP019
* Killing your darlings
* Have fun!



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