25 August 2023 | 12 key lessons from Mind Management Not Time Management include:
- Being productive today isn’t about time management, it’s about mind management.
- Time management optimizes the resource of time. Mind management optimizes the resource of creative energy.
- Not all hours are created equal: If you write for an hour a day, within a year you’ll have a book. But you can’t instead simply write for 365 hours straight, and get the same result.
- The First Hour Rule is simply this: Spend the first hour of your day working on your most important project.
- If you start your day working on the most important thing, there’s less of a chance for other things to get in the way.
- Sometimes your mind is better-suited to think creatively. Sometimes your mind is better-suited to think analytically.
- The point of time is not to fill as much life as possible into a given unit of time. The point of time is to use time as a guide to living a fulfilling life.
- A one-hour increase in average daily sleep raises productivity by more than a one-year increase in education.
- When you randomly switch from one activity to another, your energy leaks…If you’re doing that all the time, little of your energy is going toward traction.
- A Harvard study found that the busier knowledge workers were, the less creative they were; this study found that as workers became more busy , they did less creative thinking activities such as; brainstorming. They reported fewer insights and their work was also rated as less creative by their colleagues .
- Noise level can also affect your ability to think creatively…studies suggest that a background noise level of about seventy decibels is optimal for idea generation.
- Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them.
[…] Use your time well. Life is short, too short to waste on television, computer games and unnecessary emails; too short to waste on idle gossip, or envying others for what they have, too short for anger and indignation; too short to waste on criticising others. “Teach us to number our days”, says the Psalm, “that we may get a heart of wisdom”. But any day on which you have done some good to someone has not been wasted. […]
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