I use iOS Screen Time to block all social media, news, and yes, EMAIL, from my phone.
I also remove the ability to install new apps.
My wife set the code, so I don't have any easy way to get around it.
I increasingly believe that the only successful approach to productivity is treating yourself like an addict
If you want to stop drinking alcohol, don't keep it in the house ๐
Here's how I keep myself productive:
I use iOS Screen Time to block all social media, news, and yes, EMAIL, from my phone.
I also remove the ability to install new apps.
My wife set the code, so I don't have any easy way to get around it.
On my Mac, I have an automation that quits all apps each morning before I get to work and pulls up OmniFocus on the screen, so it's always the first thing I see when I open my computer and can't go down a rabbit trail.
I use to spend my entire day in my inbox.
As I'd send emails, new ones would stream in constantly, and before I'd know it I'd spent 4-5 hours just responding to emails instead of moving important projects or individual work forward.
David Allan's Getting Things Done productivity system is the only thing that has ever worked for me.
My tool of choice is @OmniFocus, but you can use almost anything.
Don't trust your brain.
Turn the raw tasks into projects and give them a context (Computer/Phone/Home/Out and About), then when you are in that context you can rip through your tasks...
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Iโve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the personโs part, whereas โsmartโ luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I โluckyโ to be born when I wasโnothing I had any control overโand that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write โWhat Works on Wall Street?โ Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.
Ironies of Luck https://t.co/5BPWGbAxFi
— Morgan Housel (@morganhousel) March 14, 2018
"Luck is the flip side of risk. They are mirrored cousins, driven by the same thing: You are one person in a 7 billion player game, and the accidental impact of other people\u2019s actions can be more consequential than your own."
Iโve always felt that the luckiest people I know had a talent for recognizing circumstances, not of their own making, that were conducive to a favorable outcome and their ability to quickly take advantage of them.
In other words, dumb luck was just that, it required no awareness on the personโs part, whereas โsmartโ luck involved awareness followed by action before the circumstances changed.
So, was I โluckyโ to be born when I wasโnothing I had any control overโand that I came of age just as huge databases and computers were advancing to the point where I could use those tools to write โWhat Works on Wall Street?โ Absolutely.
Was I lucky to start my stock market investments near the peak of interest rates which allowed me to spend the majority of my adult life in a falling rate environment? Yup.
