“By not keeping a schedule, I mean: refuse to commit to meetings, appointments, or activities at any set time in any future day. As a result, you can always work on whatever is most important or most interesting, at any time.”
10 Ideas For The Interested This Week
“If you’re unhappy, you should change what you’re doing.” — Marc Andreessen
How I Get Stuff Done
Three people asked me the same question this week.
“How do you get so much stuff done?”
How to Streamline Every Area of Your Life
“Have a running list of 1-min tasks. Make that quick phone call to reserve a table, quickly cancel a subscription, unsubscribe from a few useless newsletters or book that appointment — all in the 5 min waiting for your friend.”
20 Tools to Help You Become a More Effective Freelancer
“RescueTime assesses what you’re doing while you’re on your computer, helping you understand your daily habits. Nothing motivates you to stay off social media like knowing you’re going to receive an email at the end of the week telling you exactly how much time you wasted there.”
Community May Be the Most Important Success Metric
“Community is also an insurance policy against life’s cruelty; a kind of immunity against loss and disappointment and rage. My community will be here for my family if I cannot be. And if I die, my kids will be surrounded people who know and love them, quirks and warts and oddities and all.”
Love What You Do in Front of Your Kids
“The best way to help your children become the kind of person you want them to be is by surrounding them with the kinds of people you want them to be. This includes you.”
Hashtags Are Overrated
“If you invest substantial time in hashtag research and identification for Facebook and Instagram, it’s safe to pull back some of your resources and devote them to other, more high-value tasks.”
How to Train Yourself to Deal with Criticism
“A simple hack for making conversations around performance easier for everyone involved is to ask for ‘advice’ instead of ‘feedback.’”
How to Improve Your Copywriting by Writing Objective Copy
“Remove self-aggrandizing language like ‘unique’ or ‘special’ and let customers say it for you. Then quote the testimonial.”