And my inertia used to be a big hurdle, but over the years I transformed into a high bandwidth, entrepreneur (aka doing the work of a whole team of people) and this article describes my process.

With the above list as an example, some steps (like writing the draft) will take a couple of hours, while other steps (staging the newsletter) will take 15 minutes, tops. If you’re not using Things 3, you can create your version of this view with the help of task priority, or by tagging your tasks. Plus you actually get chance to spend quality time with your kids without beating yourself up over an impossible list of tasks.You can do this with a friend, or you can post in a group online to see if someone else wants to join you. Enabling DND for an hour here and there with an intention to focus on an important task has done wonders! I'm a part-time grad student supporting a team of 35 people in my full-time job, so I'm always looking for new techniques for time (and stress) management.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. You’ll always feel overwhelmed if the celebrating only comes after the big things, so celebrate the shit out of each small win along the way. With close to 500 to do list items to tick off, you will be getting a lot done and making big progress in no time.

Instead of making you actually productive, it makes you feel really busy, is usually exhausted and usually ends up with disappointment of not actually having been able to do everything you needed to. Ridiculously long meetings, 8 hour work days, and conferences where people spend from morning until evening in sessions with a carb loaded lunch are unfortunately all too common. Now, I’m not arguing for keeping your ideas small or reducing your excitement and I’m never going to.

Connect and grow with a powerful network of diverse collaborators from entrepreneurs, seasoned executives, funders, and operators who show up to support you daily along your scaling journey. e. the promises we make ourselves and the promises we make others) and whether we tend to meet expectations. I’ve got a bit of a motto this year to stop overthinking things and just get things done and that’s to try and make things fun and easy.I'm personally a fan of the Forest app, which lets you set custom-length timers for your focus time.

The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream. Aside from the design inspiration behind our Getting Shit Done posters and notebooks, we are incredibly excited to announce that, for the first time, the notebooks are available for purchase in A4 and A5 sizes – perfect for creative types or those who just love a little extra space! Some work (like writing this blog post) you may do because of intrinsic motivation; you enjoy the process. By beginning your creative work early in the morning, it’s more likely that time will be completely uninterrupted.

I tend to do this in two hour slots; we check in with each other and set a goal at the beginning of our session, then turn off all notifications and really focus for a couple of hours, then check in to see how we did after. That’s why we created MOXON, a platform to help these incredible designers on their journey to greatness. When you love what you do, it’s far less of a struggle to focus than it is when you hate what you do. For four weeks, we’re going to work together and prove that it is possible to get a lot of shit done and have a life at the same time, while really put some sustainable strategies into place for the long term as well. Set your intention next to any plan you make, and you’ll have a reminder why you started to pick you up along the way.