
Productivity

Productivity 101
How to get great things done vs. a ton of trivial things

Deep Work
Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport

The ONE Thing
The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

The Power of Full Engagement
Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
by James E. Loehr and Tony Schwartz

The 10X Rule
The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

The Effective Executive
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done

Flow
The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen

The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey and Jim Huling

The 80/20 Principle
The Secret to Success by Achieving More With Less
by Richard Koch

Smarter Faster Better
The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

Organize Tomorrow Today
8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life
by Jason Selk and Tom Bartow

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How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done

Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be

15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management
The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs
by Kevin Kruse

The Creative Act
A Way of Being
by Rick Rubin

Sharpening the Saw
#30
/Building a Chainsaw
Stephen Covey‘s seventh habit of Highly Effective People is “Sharpen the Saw.”

Deep Work
#36
How to Escape Shallowville and Go Deep
Cal Newport has a very big brain. He got his Ph.D. from MIT and is a professor of Computer Science at Georgetown. He also wrote one of my favorite books: Deep Work.

Multitasking Is a Myth
#37
What We Do Is Really Task Switching — And that Has a Big Cost
Multitasking is a myth.

How to Schedule Your Best Work
#38
Match Your Mental Energy to Your Task
The creator of Dilbert wrote a great book called How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.

Speed Is a Force
#54
The Force Is with You - Use It Wisely
The very first thing Phil Stutz taught me in our very first session together was the fact that Speed Is a Force.

Time Blocks
#80
The #1 Power Tool for Great Days and a Great Life (You Using Them?)
Continuing our theme of making TODAY (and every day!) a Masterpiece Day, let’s take a quick look at Time Blocks.

How to Discover Your Deep Work Style
#128
Hermit. Bimodal. Rhythmic. Journalistic. (Yours?)
Deep Work.

Now, What Doesn’t Need to Get Done?
#153
Tip: Don’t Do Useless Stuff
Peter Drucker is known as the “Father of Modern Management.” Basically, he was the greatest business thinker of the 20th century.

The 80/20 Principle
#162
What Works? Do More of That
Once upon a time (1897 to be precise), an Italian economist named Vilfredo Pareto was studying wealth and income distribution in England. He discovered that a small percentage of individuals owned the majority of land and wealth.

Parkinson's Law
#164
Reduce Time to Increase Output
If you’re into Optimizing, you’ve probably heard of something called “Parkinson’s Law.”

Flow
#165
What It Is & How to Get in It
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is one of the world’s leading researchers studying the science of well-being. He co-founded the Positive Psychology movement with Martin Seligman and has written landmark books on Creativity and Flow.

How to Add a Month to Your Year
#177
In One Simple Step
Let’s go back to our Motivation Equation for Today’s +1.

Eliminate Delay
#178
To Increase Motivation and Jumbo Crushing
In our last +1, we revisited the Motivation Equation.

Thinking vs. Doing
#180
Lessons from a Beach Ball
In one of my coaching sessions with Phil Stutz he told me to write something down. (He often does that. 😃)

Energizers vs. Enervators
#181
The Art & Science of How to Take a Good Break
We know it’s important to take good breaks. We want to work for a certain period of time (NASA says no more than 90 minutes or so) and then take a break. Repeat. Making waves as we oscillate from being on to being off.

Creative vs. Reactive
#201
Choose One Before the Other (If You Want to Actualize Your Potential)
Creative and reactive.

"Shut-Down Complete!"
#239
Your New End-of-the-Day Ritual
Continuing our theme of making sure we’re oscillating to optimize our energy, let’s focus on the end of our workday.

WIG vs. Whirlwind
#271
Which One Wins?
Continuing our Productivity 101 theme, here’s another gem from the 4DX guys.

Time Management Drucker Style
#273
The 1 + 2 + 3 for Effectiveness
Peter Drucker is considered the father of modern management. The greatest business thinker of the 20th century.

“It’ll Only Take a Minute”
#289
Yah, Right.
Here’s another gem from our Procrastination-Fighting SuperResearcher, Tim Pychyl.

Newton's First Law
#294
As Applied to Your Life
A few +1s ago, we briefly mentioned Newton’s First Law of Motion. Let’s talk about it a little more.

Newton's First Law: Fine Print
#295
Eliminate Distractions to Stay in Motion
In our last +1 we talked about Isaac Newton and his First Law of Motion. Recall the basics: An object at rest will stay at rest. An object in motion will stay in motion.

Single-Mindedly One Touching
#372
What’s Important? Start. Finish. (Repeat.)
Here’s another Big Idea from Brian Tracy that you’ll find echoed among all the great productivity gurus.

Parkinson’s Law + 80/20 Principle
#377
= Productivity Magic
Continuing our theme of how to Optimize our productivity, let’s talk about an Idea from Tim Ferris.

Covey’s Big YES!!
#812
Makes It Easier to Say “No”
In our last +1, we had fun hanging out inside Peter Drucker’s (and I quote) “VERY BIG waste paper basket.”

Covey Discipline Quiz!
#813
1? 2? or 3? (You Might Be Surprised!)
In our last +1, we jumped inside Stephen Covey’s big “No” waste paper basket. Right along with Peter Drucker and his.

How to Meaningify Your Work
#1095
In One Simple Step…
In our last +1, we talked about making a Purpose upgrade—going from a grand conception of one “big purpose” for life (Purpose 1.0) to finding micro-moments of purpose all day every day (Purpose 2.0).

High Quality Work Produced =
#1179
Time Spent x Quality of Energy x Intensity of Focus
Back in the day, we chatted about Cal Newport’s Deep Work Equation.

Astonishing Productivity
#1180
Some Math on How to Create It
In our last +1, we had some fun playing with Cal Newport’s Deep Work equation. We modified it from:

The INFINITE Power of CONSISTENCY
#1190
(Energy x Focus x What’s Important Now) ^ Consistency
In our last +1, we talked about the fact that, if we could figure out how to take 30 EXPONENTIAL steps, we’d be able to hop in a rocket and go around the Earth two DOZEN times.

Focal Point
A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals
by Brian Tracy

Head Strong
The Bulletproof Plan to Activate Untapped Brain Energy to Work Smarter and Think Faster-in Just Two Weeks
by Dave Asprey

Take the Stairs
7 Steps to Achieving True Success
by Rory Vaden
