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Month: December 2017
If You Want Broken Relationships Focus on Weaknesses
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My wife is amazing. She keeps our house running. She motivates me. She’ll sit down on a Sunday night and time block my week so that I can get a decent amount of work time in, and then she’ll handle the kids all week without complaint. But she’s not perfect. She has a pile, an…
Here are the Keys to Getting Focused Amazing Work done for Freelancers
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We’ve spent the last few weeks talking about getting your deep, focused work done in the midst of all the distractions that are thrown our way. A friend of mine inspired the series as we looked at his work in the midst of needing to deal with support. Today, we’ll go over the essential elements…
If you Want to Do Great Work NO Is Your Best Friend
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The single word you need most to get more productive is the word no. It’s the word that goes into battle for your priorities. Being comfortable with no let me decide to suck at email for a few days in late November while I finished off a video course. When I asked myself this question:…
How do I score my 12 week year?
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How do I score my 12 week year? That is the question from Youtube. This is one place I’m still a bit rocky on. I don’t do a bunch of scoring and really need to dig back into the book to figure out how to score properly. Here are the 4 questions I ask myself…
If You Want a Great Team, First Break All The Rules
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What are the unspoken rules of management? The ones you follow because you feel you should, even when you may have an inkling that they no longer apply? Stuff like, treat everyone the same, even when you know some of your people are amazing and can be trusted and others are terrible and likely shouldn’t…
Your Language Makes Excuses for Your Poor Habits
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Your language is a window into what your actual thoughts are. When you say “I have to…” what you’re most often saying is “Other people expect me to … and I can’t say no”. When you say “But people will be upset about ….” What you’re really saying is “I can’t get over maybe disappointing…
Sorting Your Tasks Based on Energy For Better Deep Work
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So far in my series on deep work we’ve covered: How to get deep work in when you have random urgent tasks to do The Mullet Method of Deep Work You’ve Only Got 100% to Give For a Few Hours, Then You Have 20% Notifications are stupid If you’ve read them all, you’ve got a…
All Those Stupid Notifications Don’t Matter
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The day after I talked to Eric about his focus times I tried to derail him in Slack. The message went something like this: You shouldn’t be seeing this Eric. You’re supposed to be focused on work. So focus. What do you NEED Need is a hard word because often those around us try to…
Stop Making Things Easier
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Don’t just jump to the easy tool or the easy option. Sometimes, oftentimes adding friction to a process can improve it. With friction in place you’re forced to evaluate if the job is worth doing at all. Without friction it’s easy to push tasks off to ‘future you’ and never evaluate them until your lists…
