How to do less and get more done: a guide to action by Leo Babauta
Tips Productivity / / December 19, 2019
Books and articles to improve personal effectiveness incredibly much, but not all the tips really work. Popular blogger Leo Babauta shares a technique that helped him become successful.
Benefits
You achieve more
This does not mean that you can do more things, but by focusing on specific problems, to achieve a more good results. The quality of work will increase by several times, you begin to better understand what they do. You really become an expert, so that, if the goal is to get more income with less effort, the result will not take long.
That is what makes Leo Babauta write guest posts hundreds a year, to blog, create ebooks, read courses and do other things.
You worry less
Getting rid of distractions and minor tasks, you free yourself from worry. Your world will not collapse if you are no longer going to do some things.
You get more out of life
Spend time doing the job or enjoying the little things much more useful than a gallop to slip past them.
You create time
When you make less free suddenly appears time. How to dispose of this gift - your cause. Only not lost!
Taste of tasks
When you perform a task, such as writing, create space around it. Perform the task is really thoughtful, completely immersed in it, and enjoy the work. Each task may be "tasty", if properly configure itself.
When working, do not hurry, be careful, you feel here and now, do it with a positive attitude. When you're done, take the time to proceed to the next task and enjoy the result.
Supervision tasks
Great if you are a day on average 20-30 perform tasks, but think about whether they are good enough and interesting to take a part of your life?
Imagine yourself a collector. Our life is limited, and has not yet come up with a way to make it dimensionless and cram a lot of things, people and events. Therefore, we should collect only the most necessary: an interesting experience, true friends and favorite activities. It is worth thinking exactly what you likeHow to carve out time for it, throwing what life clutter, making it unpleasant.
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Take a deep breath
Take a moment to pause in your busy day and just take a deep breath. Continue to deeply inhale and exhale, concentrate on your body: how you sit, whether your jaw clenched, where else can feel the tension?
Now lay your day on the shelves
What do you already do? What's left unfulfilled? It may be that some of the tasks you can not do or delegate it to someone else? Can you create a space around your objectives?
Learn to identify a matter of priority
Definition of the tasks that are most influence on your life, career, the ability to help others, will take some time. And you have to start this today. Choose important tasks, learn concentrate on their performance and just work on them. Posmakuyte them.
Get rid of anything that distracts your attention
Take a day off from social networks and any activity on the Internet, usually a distraction from the main job. Operate without external stimuli and compare the results. What do you do when you feel again that distract you?
Start small, and achieve more. The main thing is to learn self-discipline, that this method of work was fixed at the level of reflex. Perhaps this is the most difficult.
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