Wise use of your time is critical as entrepreneurs and investors. We all have more projects than we do time in the day. But the traditional word “time management” never struck me as extremely helpful. Management to me means getting more efficient at organizing and dealing with the thousands of stimuli in your life. You could be very efficient at managing [Continue Reading]
The Urgent & Important: How to Take Control of Your Time
If you’re doing anything worthwhile, you’re busy. There never seems to be enough time in the day, does there? To improve this situation, you can start by learning better time management techniques, like good to-do lists and productivity hacks like the 2-minute rule. But at some point efficiency at doing more is not enough. You can [Continue Reading]
How to Dramatically Boost Your Productivity Using the 2-Minute Rule
If the next action can be done in two minutes or less, do it when you first pick up the item … Even if the item is not a ‘high priority’ one, do it now if you’re ever going to do it at all.” David Allen, Getting Things Done, This rule is one of those [Continue Reading]
The Collection Habit – How to Get Everything Off Your Mind
In order for your mind to let go of the lower-level task of trying to hang on to everything, you have to know that you have truly captured everything that might represent something you have to do, and at some point in the near future you will process and review all of it.” David Allen, [Continue Reading]
A “To-Think” List: How to Consistently Stimulate Your Best Thinking
I use to-do lists all the time to help me get things done. If you want to learn more about how I use to-do lists, check out 5 To-Do Lists That Keep Me Sane and The List of 10: My Weekly System for Getting Priorities Done. To-do lists are probably the best tool I’ve found for making daily, consistent progress [Continue Reading]
The List of 10: My Weekly System for Getting Priorities Done
I adapted my own weekly system for productivity and time management from the awesome book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. My List of 10 came from one of the most important habits David recommends in this book, which is a weekly planning session to set your priorities for the week. So for me, usually on [Continue Reading]