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- #13 - Productivity is not a destination
Productivity is a journey.
Too often the desire to do things perfectly holds me back from ever starting. For others, it's easy to keep moving and hard to slow down for reflection.
When you can pair the two together, you'll be unstoppable—always pressing forward, always adapting to challenges.
Just get started. Habitually reflect and revise.
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10 min - #12 - Productivity Hangover
Maximizing your output on any given day almost inevitably leads to fallout the next day, with a significant drop in energy, focus, and overall productivity. Our minds and bodies need time to recover, whether we think so or not—just like runner after a marathon or a college student after a frat party.
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9 min - #11 - Your to-do app is like a credit card
Time is limited, but digital tools disconnect us from the true cost of each task on our list—which makes it hard to spend time wisely. A time budget helps you make and execute a plan to spend your time well.
Keeping a time budget also forces you to face how you spend your time, for better or worse, so you can learn from past mistakes and celebrate past victories.
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10 min - #10 - Create time for what matters tomorrow by investing time todayToo often we let short term pleasure and pain determine how we spend our time—and in the process, we rob ourselves of future benefits or set ourselves up for future trouble.“You multiply time by spending time on things today that give you more time tomorrow.” ~ Rory VadenStart viewing time like money—invest time today to free up time in the future. Then you can either re-invest that time or you can spend it (which is the whole point of having time in the first place).Link :: Abbott & Costello movie clipRead along with this podcast episode here8 min
- #9 - Better breaks lead to better work
A break can feel like a waste of time, because it doesn’t directly produce anything of value. But that’s not true.
A good break produces something hard to get anywhere else: energy and focus.
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4 min - #8 - How I learned to take terrible breaks
The point of a break is not to temporarily stop working. The point is to rest so you can return to your work with renewed focus and energy.
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14 min - #7 - All yours apps, emails, and tasks are slowing you down
Digital tools are great, but they have upsides and downsides. Two problems with digital: it's too easy to add things and too easy to keep things.
This episode will give you four strategies to keep your digital collections from growing out of control.
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13 min - #6 - You don't need more time
Our problem isn't a lack of time, but a lack of clarity and unrealistic expectations. We think more time will help, but the real problem is we give far too much time to things that aren’t important.
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13 min - #5 - Stop over-committing and accomplish more of what matters
If you are going to accomplish your ambitious goals, you will need clarity. You have to be clear about how much time and energy your goals require and how much you can spare.
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11 min - #4 - Is more always better?
Juggling illustrates why adding more of something can actually be worse. We can apply this idea to our to-do lists, our reading lists, and more.
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About Brick by Brick
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Build a more productive and thoughtful life—one brick at time. Identify the things that are most important in life, and then align the time you spend with those values.