⏱ Productivity & Organization

Details, resources, questions, and challenges

Beware of productivity pr0n

Productivity is about finding efficient ways to expedite work so can we get back to tending our orchards, or whatever hobby you really want to be doing

So if you spend the next year reorganizing your to-do lists, then you're spending too long at the meta-level and not enough in the real world.

"I would consume one of these books, maybe create a To-Do to reorganize my To-Dos, and go back to exactly what I was doing while feeling great about how great I would be someday."

Nick Winter in The Motivation Hacker

🔗 Related life areas

❓ Questions to consider

  • What productivity systems do you use?
  • Are you an organized person?
  • What is your morning routine like? What happens when you wake up?
  • Do you take notes? Do you have a way of capturing your ideas over time?
  • Do you employ any sort of 'personal knowledge management' to record and resurface your ideas?
  • What is something that feels productive to you in the moment, but usually ends up wasting time and energy?

👊 Challenges for next year

  • Define a simple morning (evening) routine to start up (wind down) the day
  • Aim to read 1 book every week
  • Make your bed first thing in the morning

📚 Resources