The 4-Hour Workweek - Step 2: Elimination

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The 4-Hour Workweek - Step 2: Elimination

The End of Time Management

Do not multitask

"task creep": doing more to feel productive while actually accomplishing less.

If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?

Am I being productive or just active?

Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important?

Dedication is often just meaningless work in disguise.

Parkinson's Law: a task will swell in (percieved) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion

Identify the few critical tasks that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.

Lack of time is actually lack of priorities

Being busy is a form of laziness

Pareto principle

80% of outputs come from 20% of inputs

Being effective vs. being efficient

Efficiency is still important, but it is useless unless applied to the right things.

The Art of Refusal

Not all evils are created equal

Empowerment failures

being unable to accomplish task without obtaining permission or information.

Time consumers

Batch activities to limit setup costs and provide more time for dreamline milestones.

Time wasters

Easiest to eliminate

Use the "Puppy Dog Close" (ie - "just this once"

Do not permit casual visitors to your cubicle

Define the end time of meetings

Meetings should only be held to make decisions

Respond to voicemail via email

Treat phone calls as urgent

Use two telephone numbers

Limit email consumption and production

Create systems to limit your availability via email and phone and deflect inappropriate contact.

Low-Information Diet

Selective ignorance

The art of nonfinishing

Starting something does not automatically justify finishing it.

"Will I definitely need this information for something immediate and important?"

Replace information gathering (reading, news, etc) with talking to the people in your life

To learn something new:

Use what you read to draft intelligent questions for experts in that field

Read only the parts relevant to immediate next steps

Select one book about the topic by someone who already did what you want to do.

Read one hour of fiction before bed

Ask people "what's new in the world?"

Increased output requires decreased input