All right, so according to my publishers, I am the world's most followed productivity expert, and so perhaps unsurprisingly, I'm totally obsessed with finding what are the small habits I can apply to my life to save me a lot of time.
And so I have gone through and basically racked my brain, and my calendar, and my life for what are, like, all of the different things that I do that take me less than about a minute every time I do them, but that overall save me a ton of time every single week.
Habit number one, the first thing I do every morning when I get to my desk is I ask myself one very simple question: What is today's adventure going to be?
What this is getting at is, what is the most important thing I need to get done?
And this is super helpful, because if you do it, it will force you to prioritize, like, the one thing that you really wanna get done today.
And secondly, framing it as an adventure rather than as a task encourages you to approach it in a spirit of play, which we know from the research improves our productivity, and our creativity, and our well-being.
Once you have identified your most important task, you take 10 seconds to stick it in the calendar.
If it's not in the calendar, it does not get done, and this is by far one of the most powerful productivity habits out of all of the ones out there.
It's just deciding what is the most important thing for you to focus on, and then actually creating a block of time and sticking it in your calendar where you're gonna do it.
Habit number three is when that block of time comes round, you don't just procrastinate, you instead start a focus timer.
