Productivity Hacks Quotes

“My Pensive Pad is a weird and wonderful record of where my brain goes while in creative flow from projects. I can be focused on the project but unlocking random ideas and thoughts on other things.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“You need to force yourself, your body and your mind not to get too used to one seat or one environment for working in. Make it work where-ever you can when you give it the signal. The signal could be you sitting down in front of a computer and sipping a cup of coffee. It could be you opening a notepad. Whatever it is, it is about getting to the mental space to work not the physical.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“99% of success is showing up and getting the work done. That is why picking the right project to focus your time and attention to is key to keeping the motivation throughout it.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“On Email, Tim Ferris in 4 Hour Work Week gives a great couple of tips to training people into understanding that you are only going to check your email twice a day. Once at midday and once at the end of the day. Why not the morning? This stops you getting immediately into answering all the emails and not doing the actual work you need to do.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“My point I this - Social Media and Email Checks are mind crack – they do nothing but give you an instant hit. Those clever Silicon Valley boys KNOW that it does this. They designed it this way. It means you are constantly in a state of wanting to check and recheck, recheck recheck…you get a Nano-hit of endorphins when you check it. Like scratching an itch. And then it builds up until you pick it up again.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“For some time I started reusing the old software my agency used – Harvest – to record the time I spent on projects. I vowed to do so without embellishment or rounding up. What I discovered is that I was spending a lot of time doing things that simply didn't move me forward.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“Stop majoring in minor things. Your time needs to be spent doing the stuff that is going to move you forward. I’m here to tell you, the stuff that will move you forward is rarely the stuff that can be eliminated, delegated or deprioritized. The stuff YOU are supposed to be doing is the stuff that another individual would find very difficult to replicate.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“I want to make this point – your actions will not always consist of critical or urgent tasks. You will get to do the things you have deprioritized. If you are constantly running critical or urgent tasks then you have too many critical or urgent tasks, and I'd have to ask – have you considered delegating them? If you have and it's a no. Then that leads us to elimination.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“Keep gas in the tank. This is my secret weapon and one those hustle and grind boys would hate, but it works. Above all - keep gas in the tank for the next day. What do I mean by that? Leave your desk in the evening, afternoon or whenever you leave it with enough vim, vigor and MOMENTUM to go back the next day. If you use up all your energy and ideas in the one sitting it will take so much willpower to go back to the desk tomorrow that it will become harder and harder each day.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“You should eat your veggies and drink more water. Your body works better if you eat less crap and eat more actual nutrients. I ignored this for years and paid the price.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“Take the hacks you want, leave the ones you don’t. But above all, run it all through your internal sense check and make sure it sounds SOUND to you before taking on board. Onward.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“You need to find a way to get the core stuff done, the stuff that makes you effective but still allows you time to have a life. And a good life at that. ”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“A rule of thumb is this if someone asks you to do something ask yourself “Will this take me closer to or further away from my overall goal?” IF it is closer to, then if you have the time and inclination then do it. If it is further away, then it is not something you want to take on.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“have noticed over the years that urgent tasks are very rarely urgent. They are a mix of: - Other people’s priorities dumped on you – making it your priority Other people’s time management failures finding their way to your desk as urgent Misunderstanding in deadlines Over-optimism in setting deadlines A mix of the above.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“Work smarter, not harder. Be productive, not busy.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

“You need to find a way to get the core stuff done, the stuff that makes you effective but still allows you time to have a life. And a good life at that.”
― David Vellacott, Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results