Secrets productivity Barack Obama

In most cases, we are looking for ways to improve their productivity and bring life in order for the reason that the current state of affairs seems to us wrong and irrational. In this case, the scale of activity is unlikely to be much different from a "simple" person to another. What can we say about the people who run the huge state. Thanks to the work of journalists Michael Lewis of Vanity Fair and Lizzie Ryan from New Yorker we opportunity to learn about how to live and cope with the incredible rhythm of life of the current US president Barack Obama.

1. A new day begins the night before

President's Day actually starts the night before. After his family had gone to bed, Obama returns to cases that could not be completed during the day. For example, when receiving the Nobel Prize assistant to the president of the world presented several options speech, which he had read out at the ceremony, however, Obama has found it all the options unacceptable. Instead of the usual in such cases, learning the text, he put together the basic ideas and theses upcoming speech on a piece of paper, and then made his own version of speech on the basis of these notes. Of course, you can not call this night work to the detriment of useful relaxation, but with this rhythm of life to find this other time is almost impossible.

2. Limit their participation in decision-making

Interestingly, many of us try to fully control and manage their lives, but when every day you should take tens and hundreds of important decisions, refusal to take part in some of them is the most acceptable.

At a time when the US president was Harry Truman, staff assistants numbered 12 people. Now that number is over 100 people. Thus solving the problem of excess consumption of information and participation in the elimination of less important matters.

"I do not want to take part in the decision that I will be there and that will wear, because I have to take a lot of other more important decisions."

This practice is used not only in matters of clothes, food and restriction of participation in non-critical issues. For example, all the papers containing proposals for decision shall contain at the end of the text of paragraph 3 with places to mark a tick "Agree", "Disagree" and "We need to discuss."

3. Protect yourself from criticism

Fair criticism yet never went to the detriment of its destination, but some people in a position surrounded by a fundamentally and radically disagree. Such a stream will show a negative disruptive of equilibrium state of any.

"We have one basic rule: we do not watch the news channels. We do not listen to public speeches of politicians. We watch sports programs and discuss them. "

Obama agreed that living in a bubble, isolated from the flow of information, it is impossible, but to filter the incoming information flow is vital.

"One of the things you realize quickly that this work - this is what people see is not me, but a character whose name is Barack Obama."

4. Sport

Every day Obama includes 45-minute or body workout cardio in the gym.

"I'll be more productive during the day, if you give me time to practice."

In addition to daily lessons in the hall, he meets regularly with friends to play basketball.

"You need to exercise, or at some point you just broke."

5. Personal time is sacred

In everyday schedule Obama always has a 3 period of time, which belong only to him, morning practice, dinner with his daughters and the beginning of the night, when the family was asleep. Each of these intervals carries its own meaning. Gym helps keep in shape at the beginning of the night, he can focus on the unfinished and upcoming affairs, and dinner in a relaxed family atmosphere allows you to switch from the mad working rhythm and be simple father.