Double Your Productivity Without Feeling Overworked and Overwhelmed.
What if a few new habits could dramatically increase your productivity, and even 5x or 10x it in key areas? What if you could get an an hour a day to read, exercise, or to spend with your family.
The productivity habits of 7 billionaires, 13 olympic athletes, 29 straight-A students, and 239 entrepreneurs. Kevin Kruse undertook an extensive exploration to find out how highly successful people manage their time.
This book is the result. The time management tips you’ll take away from this video will pay you MASSIVE dividends in the long-run.
15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management
One Percent Better
Key Takeaways
Lesson 1: Identify Your Most Important Task
Your most important task will depend on your goals and values. What task can you do today that will bring you closer to achieving your biggest goal. It’s extremely important that you write this down. According to Danny Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, your time is best spent doing a task that requires high cognitive capacity in the first two hours after waking up rather than wasting time on social media.
Lesson 2: Touch It Once
Many successful people take instant action on almost every task they encounter that takes less than 5 minutes. They want to expend the least possible amount of time and mental energy processing things. They use a touch it once mentality in all areas of life.
Lesson 3: Carry a Notebook
If you have a thought but don’t write it down, by the next morning it may be gone forever. The idea of a notebook is to reduce stress by recording ideas and thoughts before you forget them. To learn more about yourself by journaling, check out Intelligent Change.
Lesson 4: The Pareto Principle
80% of results come from 20% of the action.This is seen in many areas of life. Realize that you can work less, stress less, and increase your happiness by figuring out the 20% of goals and activities that achieve 80% of the results.
Lesson 5: Stop Making To-Do Lists
Many successful people don’t have to-do lists, but have a well organized calendar. They schedule time for their tasks. To-do lists don’t distinguish between tasks that take a few minutes and items that take a few hours. So most people end up doing the quick tasks first rather than the most important tasks.
They also cause unnecessary stress Carrying around a list, reminds you that you have so much to do. If you’ve scheduled it on your calendar, you won’t have to worry
Lesson 6: Establish a Morning Routine
You can achieve so much with a morning routine.
Lesson 7: Use Dual Monitors
If you spend lots of time on your computers, you won’t have to constantly toggle between two windows.
Lesson 8: There Will Always Be More To Do
This is why it’s important to stop prioritizing insignificant things, so you can free up time for your family and friends without feeling guilty. Remember to prioritize what’s really important because you can always be doing more and it’s easy to get lost in it all.
