Top tips on how to get things done, be more productive, and achieve more

Don’t tell me that you’ve not got any time. You do, but you’re currently spending it doing something that might feel good at the time but which ultimately isn’t adding much value to your life.

10% fitter. 10% thinner. 10% more well off. 10% happier. 10% whatever you want.

Deep work — top-tier results only able to be produced by long, uninterrupted periods of deep concentration — is increasingly rare in today’s economy. As such, it has become increasingly valuable…

Once you start getting things done, don’t neglect quiet. It’s essential for strategic thinking.

I had to figure out how to work smarter, not harder. I needed to optimize my work process to do more in less time.

Start living more consciously of your time and productivity so you can save your time for other, more important, things.

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I had a friend who wanted to get better at painting. But she thought she had to be in Paris, with all the conditions right. She never made it to Paris. Now she sits in a cubicle under fluorescent lights, filling out paperwork all day.

If time is money, productivity is like that Apple stock you bought decades ago – it has the power to make you a very rich Scrooge McDuck.

I can’t build the whole website today. There’s too much to do. Can I even do it myself? Not sure but I can commit to working on it for 60 minutes. Yeah. That’s sounds good. That’s not so bad. Let me grab my phone. Start the timer. Let’s see what happens. Here we go…

On average, we have between 50,000 and 60,000 thoughts a day, but most of them will be the same ones we thought the day before, the week before, the month before. It’s these repetitive thought… If you drive by only looking in the rear view mirror you are virtually guaranteed to crash.

If you had an extra 400 hours this year, what would you do with it?

Would you learn a language, whether it be Java or Mandarin? Would you read all those books you have on the shelf that you’ve never opened? Would you exercise more, develop your business idea, or just spend more time with your family?

You could do a lot in 400 hours.