Work Less and Do More

There’s a motivational question people ask: What would you attempt if you knew you could not fail? It’s a good question for getting over the hurdle of fear of failure.
For me, it can kick me into action. Once I’m in action, though, my immediate instinct is to do what makes the most sense to reach [...]

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A friend asked a very good question: how will my book be different from the other productivity books on the market?
My intent is to provide tips that cover a wide range of emotionally-powerful issues that have simple, behavioral solutions that impact people’s feelings of happiness and success. To me, the point is to live a [...]

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@chrisbrogan was asking how to focus on life goals. Is this an issue you have, too? How come? What gets in the way?
It seems to me two important aspects to focusing your life on your goals are:

Know what your goals are.
Say ‘No’ to time uses that aren’t aligned with those goals.

What are your obstacles? How [...]

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In a rather extensive twitter thread, we’ve been discussing how “failure” serves us. The consensus seems to be: failure is a good thing if we learn from it. So if it’s a good thing, why do we fear it? (Since after all, we can always elect to learn from it.)

@candees: we’re afraid of others’ perceptions [...]

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Here are some of my current ideas:

Procrastination
Managing e-mail overload
Building stronger relationships
Leaving work earlier
Fixing Meetings once and for all
Motivating yourself
Receiving & giving feedback constructively
I’m pasty white, have no muscles, and blotchy. I want to be Brad Pitt (or maybe Angelina, minus the tattoos). Help!
Dealing with failure (yours)
Dealing with failure (other people, whom you might depend on)
Avoiding [...]

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Between the tweets, the comments here, and the e-mail I’ve received, I’m moving ahead organizing by problem. The working idea is:

A chapter discussing and framing the problem/opportunity of productivity.
A chapter introducing several high-level tools and concepts.
Then several chapters that take a large problem and give tips to address different aspects. For example: beating procrastination, keeping [...]

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How should the book be organized? My goals:

Casual browsers should be able to pick up and find something useful.
Keep people reading.
Be intriguing enough that Ellen, Oprah, John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Larry King, the Today Show, etc. are fighting over who gets to interview me first.

Organize by bio
Come meet Stever. My background is a tad [...]

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Based on reader feedback, I’ve update this. See the revised, better handouts here.
I gave a talk at Harvard Business School about ten myths we have in our culture about careers and success. By popular demand, I’ve posted a copy of the handout booklet here: Ten Cultural Lies of Careers and Success. It’s been annotated to [...]

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Welcome! This BLOG will be a place for the community helping and critiquing as I write the Get-it-Done Guy book. Please note that for simplicity, anything and everything you post on this BLOG becomes my property for possible use in my book, presentations, etc. I always strive to give credit, so if you share an [...]

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