Productivity

Stephen Covey‘s seventh habit of Highly Effective People is “Sharpen the Saw.”

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.

The creator of Dilbert wrote a great book called How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.

The very first thing Phil Stutz taught me in our very first session together was the fact that Speed Is a Force.

Continuing our theme of making TODAY (and every day!) a Masterpiece Day, let’s take a quick look at Time Blocks.

Deep Work.

Peter Drucker is known as the “Father of Modern Management.” Basically, he was the greatest business thinker of the 20th century.

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.

If you’re into Optimizing, you’ve probably heard of something called “Parkinson’s Law.”

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.

Let’s go back to our Motivation Equation for Today’s +1.

In our last +1, we revisited the Motivation Equation.

In one of my coaching sessions with Phil Stutz he told me to write something down. (He often does that. 😃)

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 and reactive.

Continuing our theme of making sure we’re oscillating to optimize our energy, let’s focus on the end of our workday.

Continuing our Productivity 101 theme, here’s another gem from the 4DX guys.

Peter Drucker is considered the father of modern management. The greatest business thinker of the 20th century.

Here’s another gem from our Procrastination-Fighting SuperResearcher, Tim Pychyl.

A few +1s ago, we briefly mentioned Newton’s First Law of Motion. Let’s talk about it a little more.

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.

Here’s another Big Idea from Brian Tracy that you’ll find echoed among all the great productivity gurus.

Continuing our theme of how to Optimize our productivity, let’s talk about an Idea from Tim Ferris.

In our last +1, we had fun hanging out inside Peter Drucker’s (and I quote) “VERY BIG waste paper basket.”

In our last +1, we jumped inside Stephen Covey’s big “No” waste paper basket. Right along with Peter Drucker and his.

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).

Back in the day, we chatted about Cal Newport’s Deep Work Equation.

In our last +1, we had some fun playing with Cal Newport’s Deep Work equation. We modified it from:

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.