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  The 80/20 Principle

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  What Works? Do More of That

  Once upon a time (1897 to be precise), an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto was studying wealth and income distribution in England. He discovered that a small percentage of individuals owned the majority of land and wealth. In fact, 20% of the population controlled 80% of the wealth and i...

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  Digital Sunset

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  Bedtime for Your Electronics

  In our last +1, we talked about Digital Sabbaticals. Today, let’s talk about Digital Sunsets. I’m not 100% sure if I coined that phrase or not but I love it. (Laughing.) Here’s the idea: We know that THE #1 obstacle to getting a good night of sleep is using your technology w...

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  Digital Sabbaticals

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  Taking Breaks from Focus NOT from Distraction

  Let’s revisit Cal Newport’s Deep Work for another genius idea. At the risk of repeating myself even more than normal (yes, it’s deliberate!): Deep Work is where it’s at. As we’ve discussed: Deep Work is simultaneously more RARE and more VALUABLE. Unfortunately...

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  How to Discover Your Deep Work Style

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  Hermit. Bimodal. Rhythmic. Journalistic. (Yours?)

  Deep Work. As we’ve discussed many times, it’s increasingly more rare AND increasingly more valuable. The amount of high-quality work we produce will always be a function of a very simple equation: Intensity of Focus x Time. You want to get a lot of great work done in a short ...

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  Time Blocks

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  The #1 Power Tool for Great Days and a Great Life (You Using Them?)

  Continuing our theme of making TODAY (and every day!) a Masterpiece Day, let’s take a quick look at Time Blocks. Gary Keller wrote The ONE Thing. He also created the largest real estate agency in the world. In his great little book, he tells us how important it is to ruthlessly f...

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  Deep Work + Team Work + Monkey Work

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  What Goes When for You?

  In our last +1, we talked about matching your mental energy to the right task. The essence of that? You don’t want to try to do your most important work when your brain is fried. I like to think of this whole process of matching our task to our energy as Deep Work + Team Work + Monkey ...

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  How to Schedule Your Best Work

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  Match Your Mental Energy to Your Task

  Scott Adams created Dilbert. (Over 10,000 of them by now, actually.) He also wrote a great book called How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. In it, he tells us how he makes sure he gets his Deep Work done every day. Scott is ALL about systems. Part of his ...

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  Multitasking Is a Myth

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  What We Do Is Really Task Switching — And that Has a Big Cost

  Multitasking is a myth. Our brains aren’t like computers with parallel processors. We can’t actually do multiple things at one time. What we do is not “multi-tasking” per se, it’s more accurately called “task switching.” Here’s why we should care. Remember our hand...

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  Deep Work

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  How to Escape Shallowville and Go Deep

  Cal Newport has a very big brain. He got his Ph.D. from MIT and is a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown. He also wrote one of my favorite books: Deep Work. In it, Cal tells us that we can either do Deep Work or we can do Shallow Work. Deep Work, he says, is becoming sim...

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  Handy Dandy Motivational Calculator

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  The Science of Solving the Procrastination Equation

  Piers Steele is a leading research scientist. After analyzing hundreds of studies on motivation, he came up with a little equation to capture the essence of motivation. It’s a little abstract on first blush but worth internalizing and using as one of our tools. I recommend keeping this ready at hand...

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