Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine
The 2-Hour rule
Once a week, usually on Thursdays, I block out a 2-hour period of my day just to think.
In the evening, I remove all possible distractions, especially electronics like my phone and my laptop, and I basically lock myself in a room to question my work and my lifestyle with a pen and a notebook.
Here are a few questions I reflect on:
- Am I excited to be doing what I’m doing or am I in aimless motion?
- Are the trade-offs between work and my relationships well-balanced?
- How can I speed up the process from where I am to where I want to go?
- What big opportunities am I not pursuing that I potentially could?
- What’s a small thing that will produce a disproportionate impact?
- What could probabilistically go wrong in the next 6 months of my life?
If it doesn’t suck, we don’t do it.
Le temps n’est pas de l’argent, il est la vie même et la seule manière de le gagner consiste précisément à le perdre.
préface de L’histoire sans fin
You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.
7 questions deep
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
Do something and don’t stop until it’s complete, no matter how long it takes.
Ce n’est pas savoir faire qui est important, c’est savoir quoi faire.
Utopia is a silly idea if you think of it as a destination. Better to think of it as a direction.
Turning goals into plans
1 – Pick an area of my life I want to work on
2 – Select a goal to help me improve in that area
3 – List any tools or resources to help me achieve that goal
4 – List the steps I need to take to achieve that goal
5 – List daily habits to work towards that goal
6 – Write out a 12-month plan for accomplishing that goal
« Goals without plans are just dreams. »
The moment my legs begin to move my thoughts begin to flow.
A needle in the haystack By Einstein
Einstein was once asked what the difference was between him and the average person. He said that if you asked the average person to find a needle in the haystack, the person would stop when he or she found a needle. He, on the other hand, would tear through the entire haystack looking for all the possible needles.
Inbox Zero
Email apps implement “Inbox Zero” with the concept of the 4 D’s of time management: Do, Done, Delay and Delegate. The idea here is that with every email that arrives in your inbox, you open it immediately and do one of four things:
- Do: The email requires an action be performed (normally outside of the inbox), so you action it immediately.
- Done: The email is deemed “done” (a reply has been sent or there is no action required) so the most appropriate method is to Delete or Archive it.
- Delay: The email requires resources or attention not available to you right now, so your email app should remind you of this email at a later date.
- Delegate: The email requires the resources or attention of someone else, so forward the email to them immediately with the necessary context.