Lessons from “Do It Today”
by Nino · 47 things on NewTwos
- Stop looking for shortcuts, and do the work
- Building a business or career is hard.
- It requires you to do difficult, tedious, and unsatisfying tasks.
- If you want more clients or work, no one is going to hand it to you.
- You have to hustle.
- Do content marketing, one-on-one sales, network, or whatever method you use to grow your business.
- And if you want to climb the corporate ladder, you have to form alliances, be strategic, outperform your targets, and be great at what you do.
- That's what you SHOULD do, right?
- Most of us already know these things.
- Or, you will find out about it.
- There's no such thing as a secret to succeeding at work.
- Eliminate, eliminate, eliminate
- Elimination is a key strategy that I use for many aspects of my life.
- We accumulate so much unnecessary baggage throughout the years that we consistently need to eliminate.
- If you find yourself struggling to focus, try this strategy.
- Make your life so simple that it's a breeze to live.
- And let's be honest here. Who wants to live a life that's impossible?
- Life is already hard enough, don't make it harder.
- Willpower doesn’t work, systems do
- What you really need is a system for doing work.
- A lot of people shy away from routines, systems and frameworks because they want to have freedom.
- I'm sorry to disappoint you: Freedom is your enemy.
- The fact is that, if you want to get things done, you need rules.
- If you combine the right productivity tactics, you have a productivity system.
- The deadlines create urgency, accountability will create responsibility, working in intervals improves your focus, exercising will give you more energy, so does a healthy diet, and eliminating distractions will take away the temptations.
- Disconnect from the internet
- And theres only one reason to do that: Too much of anything is a bad thing. Even good things.
- Too much exercise? You will get overtrained.
- Too much love? You will smother people.
- Too much work? You will burn out.
- Too much food? You will get fat.
- Too much water? You will die.
- So why do you consume so much internet?
- Manage your attention
- Focus determines the quality of your life.
- No focus means no control of your attention.
- And no control means frustration.
- We all know what frustration leads to.
- Start managing your attention, not your time.
- Rest
- You recharge your phone when it runs out of juice.
- You refill your gas tank when youre running on empty.
- But sometimes, you forget to do the same for your most precious possession: your body (and the brain thats inside of it).
- Do It Today by Darius Foroux
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