Summary:
Extreme Productivity is a guide for boosting your productivity using goal setting, time management, prioritisation and by ending procrastination. By setting clear goals and priorities you can get more of the important things done in less time and get to your life outside work.
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Book Notes:
- The more productive you can be, the faster you can finish your work. This in turn can lead to more time for the things that matter most.
- To begin focusing more on the long term, start by prioritising your work. Breaking down tasks into aims, objectives and targets is a great place to start.
- Aims take 5 years or more, Objectives between 3 and 24 months, finally targets should be less than 3 months.
- Spend the bulk of your time focused on your top priority.
- Time pressure can be incredibly useful in fighting procrastination. You can manufacture your own time pressure with the use of ‘mini-deadlines’ for the different parts of your goals.
- Share your manufactured deadlines with your boss for some added accountability.
- When you come across simple low priority tasks, get them out of the way as quickly as possible. Use a system like GTD to manage these tasks as they come in.
- Do your tasks involve writing? Begin by brainstorming, then categorising and outlining.
- The last 2 keys to efficient writing are time and quiet. Try getting to the office early when no one else is around or utilise your time commuting to get it done.
- Number of hours spent on a project don’t necessarily correlate to quality. Sometimes the minimum viable product is enough.
- Don’t forget that the point of being so productive at work is to make more time for your life outside of work
