My new book: 4:00 A.M A Productivity Argument is out on the market today.
You can download a free Kindle version from March 6 to March 10. (if you don’t have a Kindle check at the bottom of this post)
About the book:
As you will discover in these pages that I begin testing the idea of waking up at 4:00 A.M. out of desperation and frustration, I never expect to find two full hours of focus and concentration.
In my experience (guess what I used to do too) this is what people do:
Wake up Running, Run to Work, Run at Work, Run to Home, Deal with Family Routines, Hope Family goes to bed, Work on your most important stuff.”Â
We have done it for generations, and it is wrong. We should:
“Work on your most important stuff so we don’t need to run to work, at work, to home and instead of dealing with family, enjoying family”Â
When you think about it makes sense to do your most important stuff first, but for some reason we do it last. To accomplish that, you need to switch your pattern, I did it, and the experience was fantastic.
Think about the following: When was the last time you got two hours of Focus Work?
(My answer is this morning, at 4:00 A.M.)
*If you don’t have a Kindle, Amazon had a free Kindle Application for almost any platform. Follow the link
Day: March 6, 2013
4:00 A.M. A Productivity Argument
As you will discover in these pages that I begin testing the idea of waking up at 4:00 A.M. out of desperation and frustration, I never expect to find two full hours of focus and concentration.
In my experience (guess what I used to do too) this is what people do:
Wake up Running, Run to Work, Run at Work, Run to Home, Deal with Family Routines, Hope Family goes to bed, Work on your most important stuff.”
We have done it for generations, and it is wrong. We should:
“Work on your most important stuff so we don’t need to run to work, at work, to home and instead of dealing with family, enjoying family”
When you think about it makes sense to do your most important stuff first, but for some reason we do it last. To accomplish that, you need to switch your pattern, I did it, and the experience was fantastic.
Think about the following: When was the last time you got two hours of Focus Work?
(My answer is this morning, at 4:00 A.M.
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TIP #65: The Podcast Cleaning Tip!
This is something that someone said and I can’t recall who or when or where. Cleaning is not one of those activities that I enjoy, honestly if someone can do it for me, please don’t stop. I would love to have someone cleaning after me constantly.
The problem is I don’t have it. If you are like me, pick your favorite podcast (or more than one) and only listen to them when you are cleaning.
Read that line again. Listen to your favorite podcast only when you are cleaning.
The idea is to do something that you really enjoy during that thing that you really don’t. It works!
i.e. Second trick on this, only clean during the podcast, if the episode is 45 min clean that time, if it is 67, well clean that time too.