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ENERGY (Time) Management
Time management is really about managing your energy and attention in a world of distractions. Here are some resources that have helped me in my efforts to optimize my energy and attention.
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| This worksheet is my guiding tool. It helps me to set clear intentions and targets for the day. |
| This is a distillation of the best practices I've found that help me stay focused and feeling successful. |
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TOOLS
Here are some links to TOOLS that might help you become more aware of where you are vs. where you want to be.
Energy Audit: We have multiple sources of energy... physical, mental, emotional, spiritual. When we are lacking in any of these areas we aren't able to perform at our best. Complete this quick 16 question survey from The Energy Project.
Time Tracking: Build awareness of how you are actually using you time vs how you intend to use your time. Do this for a week or more. Practice closing this gap.
Android: REPEAT ALARM
iOS: DUE
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RESOURCES
Below are a collection of book summaries (6 pages each) and short videos (2+- min) related the the subject of energy / time management.
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“Going small” is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It’s recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It’s a tighter way to connect what you do with what you want. It’s realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus. The way to get the most out of your work and your life is to go as small as possible... When you go as small as possible, you’ll be staring at one thing. And that’s the point.” |
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THE #1 Power Tool for Great Days and a Great Life (You Using Them?)
Ruthlessly focus on what you need to do TODAY to make that ONE Thing a reality. Just figuring out what your ONE Thing is (over the long run and today) obviously takes a lot of Deep Work. |
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“The Deep Work Hypothesis: The ability to perform deep work is becoming
increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in
our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it
the core of their working life, will thrive.
The book has two goals, pursued in two parts. The first, tackled in Part 1, is to
convince you that the deep work hypothesis is true. The second, tackled in Part
2, is to teach you how to take advantage of this reality by training your brain and
transforming your work habits to place deep work at the core of your professional
life.” |
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How to Escape Shallowville and Go Deep. Want to crank out some GREAT work in a very efficient period of time? Jack up the intensity (!) of your focus. How? Deep Work. |
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Here’s the idea: We know that THE #1 obstacle to getting a good night of sleep is using your technology way too late. (We also know that, unfortunately, most people do that.) |
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“At the end of the workday, shut down your consideration of work issues until the next morning —no after-dinner e-mail check, no mental replays of conversations, and no scheming about how you’ll handle an upcoming challenge; shut down work thinking completely. |
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“I believe that a life of integrity is the most fundamental source of personal worth. I do not agree with the popular success literature that says that self-esteem is primarily a matter of mind set, of attitude—that you can psych yourself into peace of mind. Peace of mind comes when your life is in harmony with true principles
and values and in no other way.” |
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FOUR QUADRANTS: Some things matter and other things don’t. Highly Effective People know the difference and they “Put First Things First.” As Goethe said: “Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least.” Invest time in IMPORTANT - NOT URGENT. |
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“What started out as a two-person support group morphed into a close friendship
founded upon a shared interest in the science of performance. We became curious: Is healthy, sustainable peak performance possible? If so, how? What’s the secret? What, if any, are the principles underlying great performance? How can people like us—which is to say, just about anyone—adopt them?
Consumed by these questions, we did what any scientist and journalist would do. We scoured the literature and spoke with countless great performers across various capabilities and domains—from mathematicians to scientists to artists to athletes—in search of answers. And like so many other reckless ideas conceived over a few glasses of alcohol, this book was born." |
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Today we’re going to talk about some more research into the #1 disruptor of our peak performance. Can you guess what it is? Yep. Your smartphone. Having a smartphone out while you’re working (even if it’s not your phone!!) diminishes the quality of your work. |
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American’s check their phones EIGHT BILLION (!!!) times PER DAY. “We have been losing our ability to pay attention to what we smell and taste. Instead we are absorbed in our smartphones and computers. We are more interested in what is happening in cyberspace than in what is happening down the street. |
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“To sit down each day and work on bringing ideas into existence that might inspire someone (even it’s only yourself) and that require time, effort, energy, and engagement . . . that is at the heart of what it means to be creative. The work becomes our source of questions, answers and meaning. It challenges us, causes us
to grow, energizes, revitalizes, reveals, and heals. Creativity is our oxygen supply. We don’t wait for inspiration to strike. We don’t wait until we’re in the mood. We are disciplined, focused, persistent, and courageous. And we trust that if we show up, our muse will, too. It’s not one piece of work, one moment in time, one burst of inspiration, but a daily practice and process that we are committed to for a lifetime." |
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“Constantly giving in to digital distractions, mindlessly shifting our attention from app to app and website to website” “turns us into what Cal Newport refers to as ‘the cognitive equivalent of being an athlete who smokes.’ Our harmless ‘checks’ while waiting in line at the grocery store or boarding a flight are not as harmless as we might imagine. |
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Getting the Information You Need and the Communication You Want, Without Enraging Your Family, Annoying Your Colleagues, and Destroying Your Soul.
"We want our technologies to extend our minds and augment our abilities, not break up our minds. Such control is within our reach. Rather than being forced into a state of perpetual distraction, with all the unhappiness and discontent such a state creates, we can approach information technologies in a way that is mindful and nearly effortless and that contributes to our ability to focus, be creative, and be happy." |
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Track your time. Specifically, track all the time you spend engaged with media—in ALL its forms: from social media sites to apps (especially THAT app!) and news and email and games on your phone to TV, video games and blog reading and more email and news on your computer, etc., etc., etc. Got it? Now compare your media diary with that list of stuff you want to do. |
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Let’s go back to this question: “How much more time, energy, and pure brainpower would you have available if you drastically cut your media consumption?” Track how you spend your time for a day or a week and do the math. How much time can you reclaim?
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“To lead others you must first lead yourself. That, ultimately, is the theme of this book. Leadership, as Dwight Eisenhower defined it, is ‘the art of getting someone else to do something that you want done because he wants to do it.’ That does not mean that leadership amounts to using people; like anyone else, a leader must recognize that each person is an end in himself. It means, instead, to make others embrace your goals as their own. But to do that you must first determine your goals. And you must do that with enough clarity and conviction to hold fast to your goals— even when, inevitably, there are great pressures to yield from them. To develop that clarity and conviction of purpose, and the moral courage to sustain it through adversity, requires something that one might not associate with leadership. That something is solitude.” |
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“Solitude is a state of mind, a space where you can focus on your own thoughts without distraction, with a power to bring mind and soul together in clear-eyed conviction. Like a great wave that saturates everything in its path, however, handheld devices and other media now leave us awash with the thoughts of others. We are losing solitude without even realizing it. |
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“If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.Habits are like the atoms of our lives. Each one is a fundamental unit that contributes to your overall improvement. At first, these tiny routines seem insignificant, but soon they build on each other and fuel bigger wins that multiply
to a degree that far outweighs the cost of their initial investment. They are both small and mighty." |
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