How to Get More Done in Less Time
Learn how to get more done in less time with The Tim Ferriss Productivity Technique. A combination of two very popular productivity tips; the 80/20 principle and Pareto’s Law for maximum productivity.
Key Takeaways
1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time: Use the 80/20 Principle, or approximately 80% of the results you get, comes from 20% of the efforts. Identify and focus on the vital few actions that generate the most significant parts of the results you get. Completely eliminate or delegate all the rest.
It only works when you avoid spending time on the meaningless activities, which is why elimination is a crucial part of this technique.
2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important: Use Parkinson’s Law, or a task will expand in relation to the time available for its completion. The amount of time you have to work on a task is the exact amount of time it will take you to finish the task.
It is the magic of the imminent deadline. We tend to respond very positively to deadlines. A deadline is so powerful that it gives people the energy and focus enough to complete a task in a single day a task they could not complete in weeks.
So to use this principle in our favor, we need to be constantly challenging ourselves to finish a task in a shorter period of time. Setting new deadlines and reducing the time you have to complete the task.
Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to your results and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.