The Productivity Project- Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
Book title: The Productivity Project: Accomplishing More by Managing Your Time, Attention, and Energy
- From Chris Bailey
- productivity in terms of energy, time and attention.
- Energy comes from health. Keep time log to understand your own engergy pattern;
- Time is a skill you can learn. All about managing your priorities.
- Attention is what makes having the other two worthwhile. Avoid chasing distractions.
- slowing down to work more deliberately, more mindful ;
- the rule of three: think to have 3 things on your To-Accompolish (at the beginning of per day and per week)
- shrinking or eliminating the unimportant (dedicate / chunking / eliminate);
- control the time of work: a steep decline in workers’ productivity after crossing the 55 hour per week mark.
- Brain dumping:
- write down all the thoughts that you have at that moment and reference later
- Exercising your attention muscle
- meditation
- diffused mode of attention
- cell phone type of surfing needs focused mode-attention
- Avoid distractions:
- each distraction needs 25mins to come back
- turn off all notifications
- the 20 second rule to distract yourself from the inevitable distractions;