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Time management

How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals | Stephen Duneier | TEDxTucson

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQMbvJNRpLE

The whole thing is to take big ambitious things and split them out to tiny manageable tasks, 5-10 minutes of focus and keep the rythme. as the prophet mohammed said: "خير الأعمال أدومها و إن قل"

How To Multiply Your Time | Rory Vaden | TEDxDouglasville

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2X7c9TUQJ8

The whole thing is to do things that creates more time.

The focus tunnel:

Tasks -> Eliminate (Say no) -> Automate -> Delegate -> me -[1. Now | 2. Later (Go to the first step)]

You multiply your time by giving yourself the emotional permission to spend time on things today that will give you more time tomorrow

How to Get Your Brain to Focus | Chris Bailey | TEDxManchester

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hu4Yvq-g7_Y

He just through up his phone for a month as an experiment -> Just stop it the hard way. * He can focus more easily * He had more ideas, more plans and thoughts about the future

In this world of distractions, researches found that we only focus for 40s before getting distracted by something else.

Our brains are distracted (over stimulated, we crave distractions): our brains loves doing this.

"novelty bias": we get dopamine when we check Facebook the same we get it when we do love, eat pizza .. etc

Free your mind from phone and do physicall stuff pushes it to think more and more ideas will cam up to your mind.

"Over stimulation is the enemy of focus" but not "Distraction", instead "Distraction" is a symptom of "Over stimulation"

How to focus intensly

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfKv2qG8d_w

What does it means to not focus

there is a difference between where an individual wants to direct their attention and where it's actually being directed.

Why ?

  1. Stress: we should deal with stress first to be able to focus better.
  2. Extrinsic pleasure We don't see the future pleasure of hard work

How ?

  1. Habit #1: abstaining from short-term pleasure seeking.
  2. Meditation will help you manage boredom and not be bothered by it.
  3. Deep work.
  4. Habit #2: Not to do list.
  5. Habit #3: Controlled amount of pleasure.
  6. Control media: Select time in the day when to check social media
  7. Having a quit time: knowing when to end helps you work hard for it, after quitting don't set any limit to your short-term pleasure
  8. Pomodoro technique
  9. Habit #4: Priority list

A quote by steve jobs:

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick carefully. I'm actually as proud of the things we haven't done as the things I have done. Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

Jordan Peterson's Life Advice Will Change Your Future (MUST WATCH)

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqEsTPaUZF0

When you're setting up your schedule try to negotiate with yourself as you do when you assign work to someone else that you want to be productive still not exhausted.

How to Stop Wasting Time - 5 Useful Time Management Tips

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwsLuxlbY2w

  • We tend to not feel guild when we take too many commitement and having an overlay busy schedule then we ended up producing low quality result

    A busy life is a wasted life -- Francis Crick

5 tips: - Try using a time tracking tool, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-AMooYPO1Y Toggle: it's a manual time tracker - Get clear on priorities How to prioritize ? - What does my schedule look like whitout this ? - When I'm on my death bed, will I regret not doing this ? - Have a list of what you're doing right now - Batch tasks: task that needs to go out together, taks that required low mental energey (cleaning, ...), Note that he's using Todoist, he used labels to batch tasks - Learn to say no: