Whether you're big into business, fitness, or gritness, you've probably come up against one of the main roadblocks in achieving the impossible: procrastination. Procrastination crops up everywhere: If you're getting into running, often the hardest thing is getting your shoes on and getting out the door. If you work from home, you drown in email before you get down to the work that matters. If you want to switch careers, you convince yourself you ...
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A Beginners Guide To Parkinson’s Law: How To Do More Stuff By Giving Yourself Less Time
This post is part of a series on productivity laws and actionable ways to incorporate them into your work in order to simultaneously become more efficient and elevate your work to a higher level. If you've spent any sort of time reading about productivity hacks, you've probably run across Parkinson's Law before. You might know the name or concept, but you may not know exactly it is or how you can implement this law to be as effective as possible. This ...
A Beginner’s Guide To The 80/20 Principle
80/20 In A Nutshell You don't need to do everything. You only need to do the things that get results. You can either think that's unfair or you can use it to your advantage. If you're reading this, you're one of the smart people who will choose to harness the energy of this principle rather than fight against it. Here's how you can do just that to optimize everything you do from the get-go. How 80/20 Works For most events, roughly 80% of the effects come ...
Workstation Popcorn: How To Become Uber Productive While Working For Yourself
Note: I was introduced to this idea somewhere on Hacker News a few weeks back, though I haven't been able to find the exact discussion again [1]. I adapted the original concept to fit my own style, and it's changed the way I approach my work. Uber Productivity - How To Knock Out More Work Than Ever There's no end of productivity hacks out there. I've will be covering some of the really important concepts: Pareto's Principle, aka the 80/20 ...
Don’t “Follow Your Passion” – An Alternative Framework For Creating Your Work
Here's a secret: I'm not following my passion. *gasp* I've said this before, but it bears repeating. I don't buy the "follow your passion" mantra. Here's why (and what you should do instead). There's Too Much Pressure In the "follow your passion" mantra, "passion" is singular - we're talking about one passion. One. All you have to do is find that one passion and then everything else will take care of itself. Here's the problem: I have more ...
How To De-Google-ify Your Life: The Complete Guide To Leaving Google
Updated September 1, 2017 How To De-Google-ify Your Life: The Complete Guide To Leaving Google Data collection is a fact. Whether or not you're spooked by the NSA releases this year, data collection is a thing and it's here. No matter where you are on the spectrum, you should be aware that you store data on the internet. You should also know that no company is perfect, so it's smart to take your data into your own hands when you can, and to know ...
Why I Killed Off A 6 Figure Revenue Stream
As of December 1st, I shut down a six figure revenue stream. I shut down all client relationships that didn't have a 5k minimum or some sort of tie in to the revenue we generated for them. In total, that worked out as a handful of clients bringing in ~$100,000 in revenue each year that I turned off. Just like that. *snaps* It sounds like a lot of money (and it is), and if you'd told me two years ago that I'd do that, I'd have laughed at you, and ...
7 Things That Happen When You Have A Plan
If you're like me, you might be a bit averse to planning. I like the flexibility of not committing to a "plan", and, for most of my life, I've avoided making solid "plans". That said, as I've started to build things that are bigger than myself - things that sometimes seem literally impossible -, I've realized that some of these things require systems if they are to scale. And systems require plans if they're going to be effective. As a result of ...
