Opposite of what you think.
No caffeine, no fat, no fried stuff, drink a lot of water but pay attention to this:
When you were a kid and your dad woke you up at 3 in the morning and said “Son we’re going fishing” you wake up and you feel great all day.
– Dave Pensado in Pensado’s place All Q&A episode
That’s the state of mind to be in!
Dan Ariely talks about what he calls the present bias focus.
An interview with Jason Fried in Spark 146.
To be productive is directly proportional to our ability to relax.
– David Allen
These are the moments when disconnection shows its glorious face, when life is in full force, when we are fully connected to the world immediately around us, while disconnected from the world at large.
– Leo Babauta in his book, Focus
I understand why people think of this as organizing but it’s really not. It’s about what do you do need to do to get free and get into free space.
The biggest myth is that this is about inappropriate structure.
– David Allen in an interview
Well said.
1,000,000 Facebook fans would be great to have, but you can’t eat a wall post and Retweets don’t pay the rent.
– Matt Kuzma, Each Person Matters re:
A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your stuff even though they have the low-res version. They have a Google Alert set for your name. They bookmark the eBay page where your out-of-print editions show up. They come to your openings. They have you sign their copies. They buy the t-shirt, and the mug, and the hat. They can’t wait till you issue your next work. They are true fans.
Probably 95% of my usage of my own system is to allow me to feel comfortable with a change of plans.
If the problem is that these separate processes of creating, consuming and communicating get in the way of each other, the solution is obvious: we need to separate the processes. We need to create at different times than we consume and communicate.
– Focus