Chris Bailey

It’s so easy to commit your future self to things your current self wouldn’t want to do,” he says. “We call this a ‘planning fallacy.

Ask yourself: After consuming one of those products, will you be happy with how you invested your time and attention?

By controlling how much time you spend on a task, you control how much energy and attention you spend on it.

Awareness: This means becoming aware of what’s going on in your internal and external environments, which helps you work more mindfully and deliberately.

Ideas, tasks, and insights only have value when you capture and then act on them. Keeping notepads everywhere has helped me hold on to a ton of them.

Make a very detailed plan on how you want to achieve what you want to achieve. What I’m arguing in my research is that goals need plans, ideally plans that include when, where, and which kind of action to move towards the goal.

making the jump between knowing and doing is what productivity is all about.

1. How much of your time you spend intentionally 2. How long you can hold your focus in one sitting 3. How long your mind wanders before you catch it

productivity has nothing to do with how much you do, and everything to do with how much you accomplish.

We have to work with intention as much as possible — this is especially true when we have more to do than time within which to do it.

ingredients of productivity — time, attention, and energy

Productivity is about how much you accomplish.

Productivity isn’t about doing more things — it’s about doing the right things.

unlike your most meaningful tasks, your most purposeful tasks may not necessarily contribute a lot of value or meaning to you, but they contribute an incredible amount of value to your productivity.

choose a productive or meaningful object of attention; eliminate as many external and internal distractions as you can; focus on that chosen object of attention; and continually draw your focus back to that one object of attention.