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“A reality of personal productivity is that humans are not great at estimating the time required for cognitive endeavors. We’re wired to understand the demands of tangible efforts, like crafting a hand ax, or gathering edible plants. When it comes to planning pursuits for which we lack physical intuition, however, we’re guessing more than we realize, leading us to gravitate toward best-case scenarios for how long things might take. We seem to seek the thrill that comes from imagining a wildly ambitious timeline during our planning: “Wow, if I could finish four chapters this fall, I’d really be ahead of schedule!” It feels good in the moment but sets us up for scrambling and disappointment in the days that follow. By deploying a blanket policy of doubling these initial estimates, you can counter this instinct toward unjustified optimism. The result: plans that can be completed at a more leisurely pace. The fear here, of course, is that by doubling these timelines, you’ll drastically reduce what you accomplish. But your original plans were never realistic or sustainable in the first place.”

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Book:Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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“Restoring order of my personal universe suddenly seemed imperative, as I refolded my T-shirts, stuffed the toes of my shoes with tissue paper, and arranged all the bills in my secret stash box facing the same way, instead of tossed in sloppy and wild, as if by my evil twin. All week, I kept making lists and crossing things off them, ending each day with a sense of great accomplishment eclipsed only by complete and total exhaustion.”

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Book:This Lullaby
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“In recent years, the lives we live seem to be getting busier and busier. Technology has increasingly made its way into every part of our existence — nearly everyone has powerful smartphones in their hands, pockets, or somewhere close. Economic and societal pressure has increased the need, or at least the perception, that we should always be doing and striving for more.”

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Book:The Twelve Monotasks: Do One Thing at a Time to Do Everything Better
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“The Anti-Planner is designed to help you develop self-awareness skills to identify which negative emotions are behind why you're procrastinating, and provides strategies that address the actual root cause of the problem--so you can stop putting stuff off (and start kicking some butt).”

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Book:The Anti-Planner: How to Get Stuff Done When You Don't Feel Like It
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“There's no magical, one-size-fits-all solution for getting unstuck (trust me, I've tried pretty much everything). But building self-awareness skills to recognize when and why you're getting stuck makes a huge difference. Once you've got that down, you'll be able to better identify what feeling is holding you back from taking care of The Thing (and how to start moving forward).”

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Book:The Anti-Planner: How to Get Stuff Done When You Don't Feel Like It
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“Capitalism is great at facilitating the maximization of production — regarding efficiency only as it effects the profit of the producer and the profit of the buyer in any given transaction. But permaculture economics is great at facilitating the maximization of productivity — regarding efficiency more holistically and measuring according to multiplicative value effects.”

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Book:Principles of a Permaculture Economy
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“Productivity should emerge from a natural flow, not from force. If you are working in alignment with your purpose and skill sets, you will have a certain work-flow that naturally results in productivity. And that productivity can be further improved with intentionality. In this way, your investment of time and energy achieves the maximum ROI.”

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Author:Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr
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“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a sunbeam, the endearing, velvety tilt of a peach, in just such a way that she earned her living selling dreams. One simply made a selection, read it in solitude, and let it percolate till sleep. People swore they fell directly into her renderings, and one even asked if the dream writer could write a dream of dreaming forever. The dream writer could not do this, but she hired dream apprentices to expand the reach of her dreams and she wrote dreams for herself in which she would sit at a desk, pen in hand, and write even more dreams. This nearly doubled her output.”

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Book:The Little Queen
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“Nature is great at hedging. All kinds of natural disasters can hit a forest - from hurricanes to heat waves to floods to freezing temperatures - and yet the forest can remain intact and continue to thrive year after year and decade after decade. At Mayflower-Plymouth we aim to hedge our funds the way nature hedges - by cultivating resilience through systems design.”

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Author:Hendrith Smith
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“Some multipotentialites like to create a regular schedule to use every day. One fun way to do this is to use Barbara Sher's "School Day Life Design Model." In this model, you structure your day the way a student might, going to different classes at different times - only each "class" is a different project. For example: 9 A.M.-11 A.M.: Writing YA novel 11 A.M.-3 P.M.: Building consulting business 3 P.M.-3:40 P.M.: Tinkering time Evenings: Learning Japanese Feel free to play with the length of your "periods," as well as the number of projects you include in your schedule. Finally! A school schedule that is totally on your terms.”

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Book:How to Be Everything
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“You don’t need a business plan. You need a customer, a product, and a reason to keep showing up.”

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Book:Money's Dirty Little Secrets: How to Break the Rules, Get Filthy Rich, and Laugh All the Way to the Bank
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“با اینکه بسیاری از ما رئیس یا مشتریانی داریم و هر کدام خرده‌فرمایش‌هایی دارند، آن‌ها همچنان قادر نیستند برنامه‌های جزئی روزانه‌ی ما را تعیین کنند؛ نگرانی‌های درونی خودمان عموماً خشن‌ترین کارفرمایانمان هستند. جدول‌های زمانی بیش از حد جاه‌طلبانه و مدیریت نادرست مشغله‌هایمان باعث ایجاد بی‌قراری عمیق و فرسودگی ناتوان کننده خواهد شد.”

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Book:Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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“راهبرد کلی خوبی برای متعادل کردن وسواس و کمال‌گرایی داریم: به خودتان برای تولید یک نتیجه‌ی عالی وقت کافی بدهید، ولی دقت کنید که وقت شما نامحدود نباشد. محصول شما باید به اندازه‌ای خوب باشد که نظر افرادی با قریحه‌ی مورد قبول از نظر خودتان را جلب کند، اما خود را ملزم نکنید که حتما یک شاهکار ارائه دهید.”

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Book:Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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“در طول تاریخ ثبت شده‌ی بشر، زندگی حرفه‌ای بیشتر مردم با کشاورزی عجین بوده است که به معنای واقعی کلمه یک فعالیت فصلی است. کار کردن بدون استراحت در تمام سال برای بیشتر پیشینیان ما امری غیرعادی بوده و به نظر می‌رسد علاقه به فصلی بودن به رگ و خون ما نفوذ کرده است.”

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Book:Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
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“We often think that combining tasks will save us time, but scientific evidence shows that it has the opposite effect. Even those who claim to be good at multitasking are not very productive. In fact, they are some of the least productive people. Our brains can take million bits of information but can only actually process of few dozen per second. When we say we're multitasking, what we're really doing is switching back and forth between tasks very quickly. Unfortunately, we're not computers adept at parallel processing. We end up spending all our energy alternative between tasks, instead of focusing on doing one of them well. Concentrating on one thing at a time may be the single most important factor in achieving flow.”

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Book:Ikigai: Los secretos de Japón para una vida larga y feliz
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“Power of habit – that sneaky little force that shapes our lives more than we care to admit. It's like having a secret agent working behind the scenes, silently nudging us toward success or dragging us into the abyss of procrastination. With determination & a sprinkle of discipline, we can tame even the wildest of habits. So, let's embark on this journey of self-improvement, armed with the knowledge that every small change we make today paves the way for a brighter tomorrow.”

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Author:Life is Positive
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