“The point of life is getting shit done and being happy”
“Automate, regulate, effectuate all, remove decisions from your head. What are you left with? Deep thinking, questioning, wondering.. Your aching brain will thank you”
“If it does not make me strong, we do not go along.”
“Yet of the countless articles, books and so-called lifehacks about productivity I’ve read (or written!), the only “trick” that has ever truly and consistently worked is both the simplest and the most difficult to master: just getting started. Enter micro-progress. Pardon the gimmicky phrase, but the idea goes like this: For any task you have to complete, break it down into the smallest possible units of progress and attack them one at a time. ... My favorite expansion of this concept is in this post by James Clear. In it, he uses Newton’s laws of motion as analogies for productivity. To wit, rule No. 1: “Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Find a way to get started in less than two minutes.” ... And it’s not just gimmicky phrases and so-called lifehacking: Studies have shown that you can trick your brain into increasing dopamine levels by setting and achieving, you guessed it, micro-goals. Going even further, success begets success. In a 2011 Harvard Business Review article, researchers reported finding that “ordinary, incremental progress can increase people’s engagement in the work and their happiness during the workday.”
“But for those of us who would like to make some headway on those onerous tasks that would truly make us feel better once they’re in our rearview mirror, I offer an old CBT trick called the five-minute rule. What’s the idea? Here it goes: you pick the task you want to work on, and you vow to work on it for five minutes, and five minutes only. Yes, you must stop after just five minutes. “What can I possibly get done in five minutes?” you ask yourself. But that is the procrastinator talking, the voice that would at this very moment lobby for doing nothing rather than doing anything at all. Are you going to listen to that voice? Don’t. So let’s ask again: What can you get done in five minutes? Five minutes more work than you would have done otherwise, and often the hardest part of all.”
“Problems don t fix themselves until you fix your attitude”
“Do not run a marothon before the starting signal”
“When goals become jobs to be done, dreams are nightmares we avoid. Keep things fun.”
“Your addiction to daily distraction denies you of effectiveness”
“The slightest pressure can be highly damaging to originality.”
“Am I entitled to feed on the fragmented trivialities online? In other words, am I entitled to spend hours every month simply browsing odd curiosities? I get the distinct sense in Scripture that the answer is no .”
“Never make your fears cause you to fall but getting stronger towards advancement.”
“It s surprising how much free time and productivity you gain when you lose the busyness in your mind.”
“Be strategic about productivity—do less exceptionally well, instead of doing more in an average way.”
“Business s humanity s most resilient, iterative and productive mechanism for creating change in the world. - John Batelle”
“If you do your work the correct way, you get to see effects. If you do it wrong, you get some mess to deal with. It’s that simple.”
“To be clear, most wastage of your efforts occurs when you get satisfied with what you do and how you do it. There comes a stage when you begin to believe that what you’re doing is right, after which you don’t think any further.”