Ten high-performance habits to immediately and massively boost your productivity:
- Your inbox is not your action list. Your action list is derived from your projects, which are based on your goals.
- If it takes two minutes or less to take an action, do it now.
- Break Parkinson’s Law: Cut your meeting time in half to create more time, and simultaneously have better meetings.
- Use your Golden Hour— the time of the day that you’re at peak performance— to do your most productive and creative work.
- Apply Task-To-Time to predefine the amount of time you will spend on a task. When the time is up, wrap up the task, finish, and ship the outcome.
- Use the Swiss Cheese technique: Complete a series of small tasks to slowly poke holes in a bigger project.
- Apply the Productivity Trident: Define the three most important tasks for the next day. Execute those, regardless of circumstances. Rinse and repeat.
- Eat your frog: Start every day with the one task you dread most.
- Put the dead rat on the table: Begin every meeting with the most important subject.
- Create an Anti-Goal List to define what you’re not going to do. Ignore any work associated with these anti-goals.