8 Tips For Staying Productive

How are you accepting your mortality and letting go of busyness and focusing on what’s most important to you in order to live a happier, more meaningful life?

Here are 10 suggestions OLIVER BURKEMAN makes in his book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

1️⃣Adopt a “fixed volume” approach to productivity. We all need to make tough choices about what we can realistically get done, so that we can prioritize the activities that matter most

2️⃣Serialize
Focus only on one big project at a time.

3️⃣Decide in advance what to fail at
You’ll inevitably underachieve at something, simply because your time and energy are finite. But strategic underachievement—nominating in advance areas of your life in which you won’t expect excellence—helps you focus your time and energy more effectively.

4️⃣Focus on what you’ve already completed, not just what’s left to do
One counter-strategy is to keep a “done list,” which starts empty first thing in the morning, but which you can gradually fill in throughout the day as you get things done.

5️⃣Consolidate your caring
Focus your capacity for care, so you don’t burn out. Consciously pick your battles in charity, activism, and politics—and devote your spare time only to those specific causes.

6️⃣Embrace boring and single-purpose technology
Make your devices as boring as possible, removing social media apps and, if you dare, email.

7️⃣Seek out novelty in the mundane

8️⃣ Be a researcher in relationships
When faced with a challenging or boring moment in a relationship, try being curious about the person you’re with, rather than controlling.

9️⃣Cultivate instantaneous generosity
Whenever a generous impulse arises in your mind, give in to it right away rather than putting it off.

🔟 Practice doing nothing
Doing nothing means resisting the urge to manipulate your experience or the people and things in the world around you, and to let things be as they are.

✴️ I personally need to work on number 10 “doing nothing”


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