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Avoid Multitasking
Work the Right Way Like it or not, humans are habitual creatures. We instinctively set daily (although malleable) time blocks for sleeping, eating, and other daily habits.
Break this habit by making a strict ”no working in bed” policy. (One of my editors uses the strict rule that beds are only for sleeping and sex, no exceptions!) Instead of checking your phone while still tucked under the covers, form the habit of moving to what you have declared a “work only location” (maybe a specific chair or home desk) and start your phone-checking there.
The Danger of Project Management over Optimization
How to Set Limits
By limiting the amount of projects I work on during a day (remember not at once, as multitasking doesn’t work for many people), I can maintain a narrow and dedicated focus while keeping output and quality high.
Once you have prioritized your actions and found your concurrent project limit, you become ready to take on the next important step, repetition.
As such, habits are not merely tools for organizing actions, they are tools for how humans classify other humans.
Normally, actions only make small impacts.
Luckily, humans are predisposed to creati...
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The introduction of new habits is reliant on the deconstruction of previously held habits. In this case as well as many others, addition is not possible without subtraction.
There is not a ”one size fits all” plan for implementing habits.
tools that work for different situations. In my experience, the most useful methods for creating new habits are as follows: The Reward Method
This is the most popular method for creating new habits.
The method that will work best for you will vary depending on which habits you already have in place and how positive and negative stimuli affect you individually.
Yet another amazing thing about habits … is that they become more and more easy to maintain as time passes.
The same goes for developing habits: at first you have to be hyper vigilant and make sure the habit never gets broken.
Habits take effort when you are first building them, but inherently what makes them habits also make them elements of your life that don’t require your focus.
They become the hard working warriors of your internal empire.
This is why living life well is so hard.
This is a daily battle that we will start fighting together in the next part of this book.
To them, practically everything is a new experience, a new opportunity to learn.
As adults, we have less new experiences and as such lose access to the joy that came from new learnings.
I want to live life well and I know that feat requires a great journey, not just a series of destinations.
Addition is not possible without subtraction.
yourself. You finally have access to the Minimalist Mindset. It is now up to you to step out of the Cave.
