How to Get More from Life by Scott Young - HTML preview

Chapter Four - Productivity

Effectiveness

Productivity, for me, is the opposite of becoming a robot. It’s about become so insanely good at your work and how you do it, that you don’t comes from

need to sweat the hundreds of man-hours into projects and agonizingly simplicity.

push yourself to do more work.

Having too many

Productivity doesn’t eliminate my relaxation, fun and being able to gadgets, tools or

have a glass of wine. Productivity enables it.

systems probably

means that none

My Productivity Toolbox

of them function

particularly well.

Here, briefly, are a few of the tools I use to stay productive: 1.

Weekly/daily goals. This is the cornerstone of my system. One list for the day’s goals. Another for the week. No additions once the list is made, work until it’s finished. Simple, beautiful, effective.

2.

Calendar. For tracking scheduled events (Google Calendar works great.)

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