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!