The Only Way to Get Important Things Done

Post by afterburner » Wed, May 25, 2011, 5:36 PM UTC

Markku wrote: post #33

latch wrote: post #27

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Something's not adding up for me...even if you are working 10 hours a day, that means you are spending 5 hours commuting, exercising and eating? 1 hour commute each way, 2 hours exercise and 1 hour for eating?

A simplified example day: 07:15-08 Wakeup, shower and breakfast 08-09 Commute+reading 09-19 At work, includes lunch and snack 19-20 Exercise 20-20:30 Grocery shopping 20:30-21:30 Commute+reading 21:30-22 Dinner 22-23:30 Hacking 23:30 To sleep (slightly late) This routine gives a small amount of extra working hours to use for time off later. Cutting work to 8 hours gives 2 hours of which 1 usually goes to a longer exe…

Post by [deleted] » Wed, May 25, 2011, 6:13 PM UTC

Markku wrote: post #59

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #56

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Not OP, but here's something that has worked out great: putting all our bills on auto-pay.

Online banking is easy. But then it's easy to forget how much money you waste on said auto-paid bills every year. Sometimes it's good to have to work for something to realize maybe it's not necessary after all. I cut my magazine subscriptions to half, twice, and still get a bit too many to read ;)

Post by AbyCodes » Wed, May 25, 2011, 6:43 PM UTC

rkalla wrote: post #74

I don't know if this comment will get read, it'll be buried down at the bottom... let's pretend it's a pot of gold hidden at the end of the rainbow :) In short: I agree with this article (originally proposed in THIS article/video http://www.fastcompany.com/video/why-change-is-so-hard-self-... ) I moved on from my job as a project manager a few years ago and spent a year dabbling here and dabbling there on different p…

Post by eavc » Wed, May 25, 2011, 8:21 PM UTC

rkalla wrote: post #74

I don't know if this comment will get read, it'll be buried down at the bottom... let's pretend it's a pot of gold hidden at the end of the rainbow :) In short: I agree with this article (originally proposed in THIS article/video http://www.fastcompany.com/video/why-change-is-so-hard-self-... ) I moved on from my job as a project manager a few years ago and spent a year dabbling here and dabbling there on different p…

Post by naner » Wed, May 25, 2011, 8:51 PM UTC

latch wrote: post #3

I feel pretty confident that the single biggest thing people can do to be more productive, or to have more time, is to dump their TV. Following this is the trifecta of: exercise, eating well, and sleeping enough.