#Things to consider
- Remember that all those time-saving tools should actually save you time. Don’t try to do more. But actually less.
- Use the two minute timer approach to start an activity.
- Productive work is not only what makes you money, it could also be renovating a home, cooking for people you love, studying. Whatever brings you emotional satisfaction.
- Two hours of focused work on one specific thing should be enough to define a day successful. I need to get away from filling my days with more and more things. It just ends with me getting disappointed, even though I accomplished some things—it wasn’t all things I intended to do. This is harmful and I need to reframe how I think about my work.
- When we worry about wasting time, we end up wasting our time worrying.
- Perhaps we need to shift away from trying to maximize our time and instead try to reduce our worry about wasting it.
- On most days, three to four hours of high-quality, focused mental work is about our maximum. Working beyond that can be a waste.
- Getting the majority of our work done in less time—say, because we are practiced in a certain skill—shouldn’t mean that the remaining hours are then spent on more work.
- We need some hours in the day to waste as we wish—just like the negative space in design cushions the text to make it more readable. We need cushioning in our days, too.
- Life happens in cycles.