100 time, energy, and attention hacks to be more productive

My 100 favorite time, energy, and attention hacks that will let you get more done.

How to determine the highest-leverage activities in your work

There are a very small number of work tasks where you deliver 80 or even 90% of your value. These are your highest-leverage work activities.

How to tame ‘springy’ life elements, the reason you never have any free time

You may notice that even when you have less to do, you still have no free time. Springy life elements are to blame, and here’s what to do about them.

Want to get more done? Take more breaks!

Over the last few weeks I’ve observed my productivity as I’ve either taken frequent breaks, or not taken any at all. Here’s what I’ve learned!

Time hack: Create a ‘mindless’ list

Creating a list of the mindless things you do everyday and doing them at once will give you a huge productivity boost.

The quick and dirty 20 Second Rule

Finding and eliminating distractions that are within 20 seconds of your reach may seem like a small change, but it can have a profound impact on your behaviour.

Your to-do list’s sexy, secret lover: The ‘Waiting For’ list

If you find stuff slipping through the cracks and you want to reduce the stress that comes with juggling a million things at once, start a Waiting For list.

High-leverage activity: Learn to touch type

If you’re like me, you’ll spend more than a year of your life typing nonstop. Learning to touch type is one of the highest leverage activities you can do.

Time Hack: Start a maintenance day

The idea of a maintenance day is a simple and powerful one: take all of the maintenance-y stuff you do throughout the week and lump them together on one day. It turns out, the effects of doing this are profound.

You don’t have time for that? Bull$#!†.

The phrase “I don’t have time for” should never be said. We all get the same amount of time every day., so if you can’t do something it’s not about the quantity of time. It’s really about how important the task is to you.

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To become more productive this week, try working less

Takeaway: By working less—like by working fewer hours during the week, and by scheduling less time for your important work—you do two things at once: you expend more energy over a shorter period of time to get the work done, and you prevent your...

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