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February 7 - February 21, 2022
SECRET #1 Time is your most valuable and scarcest resource.
What’s Your One Thing?
Identify Your Most Important Task (MIT)
Put simply, the most important things are to know what to focus on and how you are going to get it done. I call this always knowing your most important task, or MIT.
SECRET #2 Identify your Most Important Task (MIT) and work on it each day before doing anything else.
The Problem with To-Do Lists
First, schedule a chunk of time for everything that is important to you; this is called “time blocking” or “time boxing.”
Second, important items should be scheduled as early in the day as possible.
Third, don’t cancel goals; reschedule them if necessary.
Fourth, treat your time-blocked calendar entries as if they were appointments with your doctor; they are that important.
SECRET #3 Work from your calendar, not a to-do list.
Procrastination is the habit of putting off important, less pleasurable tasks by doing easier, more pleasurable tasks.
SECRET #4 Procrastination can be overcome when you figure out how to beat your future self, who cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
SECRET #5 Accept the fact that there will always be more to do and more that can be done.
SECRET #6 Always carry a notebook.
SECRET #7 Email is a great way for other people to put their priorities into your life; control your inbox.
SECRET #8 Schedule and attend meetings as a last resort, when all other forms of communication won’t work.
SECRET #9 Say no to everything that doesn’t support your immediate goals.
SECRET #10 Eighty percent of outcomes are generated by twenty percent of activities.
SECRET #11
Focus your time only on things that utilize your unique strengths and passions.
SECRET #12 Batch your work with recurring themes for different days of the week.
SECRET #13 If a task can be completed in less than five minutes, do it immediately.
SECRET #14 Invest the first 60 minutes of each day in rituals that strengthen your mind, body, and spirit.
SECRET #15 Productivity is about energy and focus, not time.
