5 Top Secrets to Getting More Done
Getting off line reading blogs about being productive should be added. LOL!
Originally posted on TIME:
1) Be a Machine
The secret to getting more done is to make things automatic. Decisions exhaust you:
The counterintuitive secret to getting things done is to make them more automatic, so they require less energy.
It turns out we each have one reservoir of will and discipline, and it gets progressively depleted by any act of conscious self-regulation. In other words, if you spend energy trying to resist a fragrant chocolate chip cookie, you’ll have less energy left over to solve a difficult problem. Will and discipline decline inexorably as the day wears on.
Build routines and habits so that you’re not deciding, you’re just doing. When you first learn to drive it’s 1000 activities like steering, shifting, checking mirrors, braking — but with practice you turned it into autopilot and it’s no stress at all.
2) Sleep is king
Get enough sleep:
All told, by the…
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