Nicholas Bate

Productivity Reminder 12

Be Bold.

Leave a day deliberately blank.

How To Be Brilliant (v2) 1-50: 29, Scale

Get good at scaling. When do you need to be a big-picture visionary? Thinking ahead, dreaming, plotting: hot-air balloon view. And when right down to Earth, changing the scale and noting detail, detail and yet more detail. Right scale for right time.

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Productivity Reminder 11

If you feel you can't create more time, work on two other dimensions: space and energy.

Create more space: get rid of the clutter, the stuff, the distraction.

Create more energy: that'll help you focus, say no when necessary and get better RoI on time utilised.

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Jagged Thoughts for Jagged Times, 428

In a World of Extreme Chaos, don't hide.

Plan.

A and B.

Productivity Reminder 10

Prioritise by pay-off not by urgency, ease, next-on-list, s/he who's shouting loudest.

No, only by pay-off as decided by your compass.

Otherwise the hamster wheel is yours for life.

Daily

count

your blessings.

The Boys

are

back in town.

Apple

and anti-tracking.

Basics 7: Back to School

1. The kids are given a timetable. You can choose yours. But do so: ensure critical stuff happens.
2. They are given a stationery list. Forget it: you need just pencil, notebook and brain.
3. Don't do it for the exam. Do it because you don't want to let yourself down.
4. Don't drop Spanish. Of course English is spoken everywhere. That's not the point.
5. Fresh starts are always good. Make one.
6. Don't seek a 'good job'. Seek something which through mastery you love. All else is then so easy.
7. Don't miss a single session. It's all learning.

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Scott Blitstein.