Better Productivity for Work and Life
Reference information is any supporting information that you need when working on your results. For example, you might have a long email that has three action items in it. The email is reference. You might have information about your project. The key is to factor the action items from your reference, so you don’t have …
The keys to opportunity are recognizing windows of opportunity, having buffers in terms of time and energy so you can leverage opportunity, and evaluating trade-offs of missed opportunities. The following are solutions at a glance for finding, exploiting, and maximizing opportunities: How to test the potential of an opportunity Imagination is not enough. Test your …
The keys to learning are turning feedback into lessons, carrying the good forward, and staying curious. The worst pitfall for learning is falling into learned helplessness, where you start to shutdown or think that no matter what you try, it won’t work. The following are solutions at a glance for improving learning: How to fail …
One of the main reasons that To-Do lists, backlogs, and lists of all the things you need to get done rots over time is because… time changes what’s important. That’s a good thing. Because time changes what’s important, it’s a chance to do a reset and a chance to do a re-think on what your …
You can’t always change the What. But you can always change the Why or How. Change Your HOW Changing the How would be things like: using deliberate practice (a disciplined approach to improve a routine activity) making it a game (against time, against yourself, etc.) pairing up with somebody changing when you do it—have a …
