Work Smarter, Not Harder: The Best Hacks to Make You More Productive, More Effective, and More Innovative
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Do you feel like you’re always running, but you never reach the finish line? Like no matter how hard you work or how much you hustle, you still aren’t within grasp of your goals?
You wish for more time in the day or a more understanding boss or less needy clients. But the truth is, you’ll never make real progress towards your goals until you learn to work smarter, not harder.
There are some people who seem to always have it together—they get a ton of stuff done each day in a way that seems effortless and superhuman. But these people aren’t superhuman. They’ve just learned to incorporate some key habits into their workdays. They’ve learned to put up a firewall between the internal and external forces that can derail them from their most important work.
By applying the principles from this book, you can do the same. You can learn how to make your life less busy and your work more innovative. You can get more done, put out higher-quality work product, and still have time and energy left over at the end of the day.
Everything in this book comes down to one very simple principle: Productivity is about working smarter, not harder. To learn how, and supercharge your progress towards your most important goals, scroll up and click Buy Now!
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Work Smarter, Not Harder - Taylor Haskins
What is Productivity, Really?
The pace of our everyday lives is increasing all the time. We’re facing more and more demands on our time and energy and less and less time to fulfill those demands. It’s easy to, as a result, get caught in the frantic trap of busyness,
which saps our attention and time away from those goals we should really be focusing on.
This cheat sheet will show you (without any fluff and with actionable advice) how to protect your focus, manage your time, and manage your energy so that you can perform at your peak productivity and accomplish those things that are most important to you. From goal setting and prioritizing, to selection of mental models, to minimizing distractions and entering a state of flow, to using creativity and innovation to propel yourself forward, you will find in these pages everything you need to eliminate unnecessary timesucks and zone in on the tasks and projects that are most important in helping you achieve your goals.
Before we get started, though, it would be useful to take a look at what we mean when we say productivity.
A very simple definition of the term provides that productivity equals value divided by time and/or resources. In other words, productivity is the efficient use of time, resources, materials, energy, et cetera. Productivity, put most simply, is what we call our attempts to find the best and highest uses of our time and resources with the least wasted effort. It’s a matter of output measured against input.
Those who have higher productivity are able to provide or attain more value with the same amount of time/resources/materials/energy than are those with lower productivity. It follows, then, that one can improve his or her productivity by either (1) increasing the value create using the same amount