The single most important change you can make in your working habits
It's all about how you structure your daily routine
In an increasingly interconnected world, finding focus and enabling time to do work is becoming harder and harder. Demands are outstripping our capacity at an alarming rate.
It's time to start thinking about how we work.
Rather than offer a one-size-fits-all productivity system, Jocelyn Glei and her team at 99u interviewed seasoned thought leaders and creatives — Seth Godin, Stefan Sagmeister, Tony Schwartz, Gretchen Rubin, Dan Ariely, Linda Stone, Steven Pressfield, and others — and asked them to share their playbook of ideas to improve productivity.
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The result is Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind.
One of the key ideas in the book is using a routine.
It's time to take responsibility.
Routines help set expectations about availability.
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Does this sound like you?
So what can you do?
Mark McGuinness argues in Manage Your Day-to-Day:
Interestingly, this is what Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett do.
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