Productivity

People change best by feeling good, not by feeling bad.

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

The 80/20 Principle is the cornerstone of results-based living.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love - is the sum of what you focus on.

The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

We don't like checklists. They can be painstaking. They're not much fun. But I don't think the issue here is mere laziness. The real obstacle is pride.

In an increasingly unpredictable world, the best algorithm is the one that gives you the best expected outcome - not the guaranteed best outcome.

If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will.

With deliberate practice, however, the goal is not just to reach your potential but to build it, to make things possible that were not possible before.

What is the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.

If you over-complicate the easy, you make the essential impossible.

Stress + Rest = Growth. The equation doesn't work without both variables.

Hesitation is death. Observe, orient, decide, and act.

Hvis du er leder, og ingen følger dig, så er du reelt set bare ude og gå en tur

Deliberate rest helps you work better. It's not the opposite of work; it's work's partner.

Energy, not time, is the fundamental currency of high performance.

We believe we're rational beings, but our decisions are often shaped by the time of day.

No matter how much effort you put in, you can't sit there and make brilliant decisions all day the way a truck driver can stay on the road.

Our attention has never been as overwhelmed as it is today. At the same time, our world has never had more things competing for it.

Time management is pain management. Understanding that truth is the first step in learning to manage our time and, therefore, our distractions.

Saying no is not subtracting.

The quality of our thinking is proportional to the models in our head and their usefulness in the situation at hand.

You don’t have to wait until you feel confident, motivated, or until you know it all; you start now and see what comes to you.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

You can choose how to spend your 168 hours, and you have more time than you think.

No one had ever stopped to wonder about whether the way we're working was actually working.

The best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

The more you try to manage your time with the goal of achieving a feeling of total control, and freedom from the inevitable constraints of being human, the more stressful, empty, and frustrating life gets.

Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it.

Everyone wants better meetings, but no one seems to know how.

The urge to check Twitter or refresh Reddit becomes a nervous twitch that shatters uninterrupted time into shards too small to support the presence necessary for an intentional life.

Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, 'The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!'

Productivity is not about getting more things done; it's about getting the right things done.

The desire to create is a sacred impulse.

It's never been easier to do too much.

Westerners treat meditation like medicine: 'I'll do 10 minutes when stressed.' Monks treat it like brushing teeth: non-negotiable maintenance.

The number one thing that you will have to sacrifice to be great, to achieve what you are capable of, and to execute your plans, is your comfort.

The biggest problem with our decisions is the space between stimulus and response. Most of us react before we've had a chance to think.

Calm is protecting people's time and attention. Calm is about 40 hours of work a week. Calm is reasonable expectations. Calm is ample time off.

We've defaulted to using visible activity as a proxy for useful effort, creating a culture where people feel they need to seem busy, even if this busyness is preventing them from accomplishing useful work.

Productivity is about making certain choices in certain ways. The way we choose to see ourselves and frame daily decisions; the stories we tell ourselves, and the easy goals we ignore; the sense of community we build among teammates.

The best way to reduce stress in your life is to stop screwing up.

You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures.

The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits.

Your level of success will rarely exceed your level of personal development, because success is something you attract by the person you become.

Discipline: The root of all good qualities. The driver of daily execution.

Love the discipline you know, and let it support you." - Marcus Aurelius

Rational decision making requires you to forget about the costs incurred to date. No matter how much you have already invested, only your assessment of the future costs and benefits counts.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

If you have to eat a live frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And if you have to eat two frogs, eat the ugliest one first.

Every day is like a blank page: when you're finished filling it, you can save it, take what you need from it, and let the rest be.

Start copying what you love. Copy copy copy copy. At the end of the copy you will find your self.