Tech

• Limit email replies to one per minute
• If you can’t understand what an email asks, don’t answer
• Tune out the news. Nothing important happens, most of the time.
• Do not answer the phone, unless it’s a true emergency. (Emergencies are rare)
• Use keyboard shortcuts.

Clothes

• Define your fashion uniform.
• Wear it daily.
• Wear smart fabrics.
• Carry an all-occasion outfit with you.
• Discard what you stop using.

Hacks

• Visualize your end product
• Start before you feel ready, avoid chicken-and-egg.
• Assume you are right, when in doubt
• Decisive is productive.
• If you can’t write it down, record it.
• When you read something helpful, write to the author.
• Manage anxiety – run, swim, dance
• Sleep more. You will get more done.
• Take naps when energy runs low.

Schedule

• Do the easiest things first.
• Prioritize one item per day.
• Set a daily routine.
• No meeting unless they are decisive.
• Better done than perfect.

Food

• Routinize your diet.
• Eat healthy food.
• Get delivery to save time.
• Negotiate a daily deal with your trusted cafe.

Mind

• Notice the 80/20 rule. Which 20%? of work produces 80% of the results?
• Focus on the important, suppress the urgent.
• Decide the outcome before even starting.
• Start ‘Idea Dump’ book for genius ideas you can’t work on now.
• Eliminate trivial decisions, like what to wear.
• Learn to ignore. No need to respond to everything.
• Do a bad first draft. You can’t edit a blank page.
• Treat time as your money.

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