I recently tried an experiment. I decided to see if I was a morning person. Instead of staying up all night writing, I decided to do one of my thirty-day experiments: I spent a month going to bed at 9:30 p.m. every night and waking up at 5:30 a.m. Though it meant dashing out of dinners early, turning down all night time plans, and going to sleep with work still unfinished, I discovered that I was much more productive this way. By the time most of my friends were waking up, I’d already...
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These sorts of books should be mandatory reading before you’re allowed to learn game. You’d have a lot more productive people out there.
Ironically I was finishing the chapter on social robots when I read this post…
Just wanted to thank you for the time management tips Neil, they’ve been a huge help to me though ironically I only stumbled across your blog while procrastinating on the internet in the first place
Another great source of information is ‘The 4-Hour Workweek’ by Tim Ferris. He talks about applying the 80/20 rule (Pareto principle) to focus only on those tasks from which you’ll recieve the most benefit, and using Parkinson’s Law to set deadlines and reduce the amount of time spent working.
Really simple, but deadly effective.
Very useful stuff, Neil. Thank you. Serendipity strikes in that I should be here procrastinating when I stumbled onto these useful tips.
The 5 year plan, really helped me put down my goals!
Tim Ferriss surprised me with his opinion on time management in the 4 hour work week: “If you set your priorities right, you do not need time management. Life is not about cramming ever more into a limited amount of time”
I love that. Appeals to my lazy side and to my realistic side. Does conflict with Covey adn all the otheres that proclaim that you have to squeeze the last bit out of every second…..
“Do the most important things first”, that is the best, the primal one
Sometimes you just have to press against procrastination to succeed. It’s not easy and I believe that it is the filter that life uses to let only the ones who posses a deep desire achieve what they want.