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  Morning Routines

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  The Keystone for Your 4-Hour Workday

  Continuing our theme of architecting the optimal 4-Hour Workday, let’s talk a little more about some wisdom from Alex Pang (and his great book Res...

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  Masterpiece Days & Productivity

  Deep Work Energy Hustle masterpiece-days Mind productivity time management

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  A Cognitive Athlete Who Smokes

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  Let’s Not Be One

  In our last couple +1s, we’ve talked about Optimizing your FOMO by unplugging from the incessant consumption of the inessential. Today I’d like to look at the same basic idea from a slightly different angle. In

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  Conquering Digital Addiction & Peak Performance

  conquering-digital-addiction Deep Work Mind Peak Performance productivity technology time management

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  Ambition + Routine

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  “Routine, in an Intelligent Person, Is a Sign of Ambition.”

  Daily Rituals is a fascinating book that features brief vignettes of the idiosyncratic habits of 161 of history’s most iconoclastic writers, scientists and other great thinkers—ranging from W.H. Auden, Ch...

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  Habits & Purpose

  Fundamentals Habits Mind productivity purpose time management Vision

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  Task Switching Is Expensive

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  A Super-Quick Exercise to Calculate the Costs

  We talk a lot about the value of going deep and creating, as Peter Drucker puts it in The Effective Executive “large quantums of tim...

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  Science of Daydreaming

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  The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

  Did you know there’s actually a science of daydreaming? It’s true. Thank you, awesome researchers. Technically, they describe it as either daydreaming or “mind-wandering” but it’s important stuff. Why? Because this is our ticket to activating the supercomputer-like default mode...

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  Creativity & Self-Image

  Happiness Mind Recovery science time management Vision

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  The Supercomputer in Your Head

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  And How to Turn It On

  A few +1s ago, we talked about Manoush Zomorodi’s great book Bored and Brilliant. We reflected on the fact that

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  Creativity & Peak Performance

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  Delete THAT App

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  Yah. That One. (Remember: 25 Minutes = 2 YEARS)

  In our last +1, we talked about the fact that 25 minutes every day = 2 YEARS of your life. Did you figure out how you’re wasting time and make some progress eliminating that time wasting activity? If so, high fives. If not, here’s a tip. In

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  Neuroscience & Productivity

  Actualization Mind productivity technology time management

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  25 Min = 2 YEARS

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  Your #1 Time Waster? Keep that Math in Mind

  Manoush Zomorodi wrote a great little book called Bored and Brilliant. The basic idea is that we need to unplug from our constant tech s...

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  WIN! WIN! WIN!

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  What’s Your Next Most Important Thing? (<- Crush That. Repeat.)

  Continuing our theme of hammering our #1 Wildly Important Goal, let’s talk a little more (again) about WINning. We’ve touched on the theme a few times. We had a couple +1s in which we talked about Michael Phelps’ coach’s “What’s Important Now?!” mantra. Aka WIN!! (

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  Goals & Productivity

  focus goals Mind productivity Systems time management

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  Inspiration Clock

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  What Time Does It Strike for You?

  Steven Pressfield wrote one of my favorite books: The War of Art. Actually, he wrote three of them:

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  Creativity & Masterpiece Days

  creativity Hustle masterpiece-days Mind productivity Systems time management

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  Parkinson’s Law + 80/20 Principle

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  = Productivity Magic

  Continuing our theme of how to Optimize our productivity, let’s talk about an Idea from Tm Ferris. In The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim combines two concepts to create some magic. I just so happened to be a micro-case study in the power of this approach today and thought it would be a good ti...

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  Single-Mindedly One Touching

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  What’s Important? Start. Finish. (Repeat.)

  Here’s another Big Idea from Brian Tracy that you’ll find echoed among all the great productivity gurus. I love how Brian puts it so here we go: “Once you have thought through your work and decided on your most valuable task, you must discipline yourself to start it immediately and st...

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  Productivity & Willpower

  focus Mind productivity technology time management

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  Eat that Frog

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  The Secret Ingredient for a Great Day

  A few +1s ago, we mentioned one of Brian Tracy’s books called Eat that Frog. “Eat that Frog”? Yah. Eat it. First thing in the morning. Before you do anything else. Nom nom nom. Basic idea: If the worst thing you have to do in a day is eat a frog, and you eat that fr...

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  Zero-Based Thinking

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  What Goes if You Started at Zero?

  Brian Tracy is one of my favorite old-school self-development teachers. I can still remember listening to his CDs back in the day when I was first getting into all this stuff. And, we’ve covered a number of his books including Maximum Achievement, Eat that Frog, Goals!, Focal Point and No Ex...

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  Productivity & Purpose

  big-picture commitment Mind time management

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  5 Core Habits

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  How to Consistently Create GREAT Days

  In our last +1, we talked about Matthew Kelly’s encouragement to slow down, step back, and take the decade view on our lives. Quick check in: What’s YOUR decade view look like? (And, uh… You do these exercises right?! That’s the only way we’re going to move from th...

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  journal-exercise Practice productivity self-awareness time management

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