How to be a Productivity Ninja: Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.’

Attention is your currency. Time might be spent, but attention still needs to be paid. Look after this currency, as it’s the most valuable currency in the world.

We oftenlike to be distracted because it’s the perfect excuse for procrastination and thinking less, and Facebook or Twitter win over the report we’re supposed to be finishing simply because it’s easier to be in those places, having conversations, than it is to get into the difficult thinking we’re supposed to be engaged in.

LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS. SERIOUSLY.
Realize that you’ll never get everything done. That’s not the game any more. Be safe in the knowledge that you’re in control, selecting the right things to do, and that you’re doing as much as one human being possibly can, and you will find a way through it.

A five-minute phone call to get a personal recommendation is much easier than an hour Googling the best solution. Find people whose opinions you trust – and trust them!

Promise me this solemnly. Never, ever forget that you are not a superhero. You are a Ninja. You’re human. You must realize that the world changes, but that you’re as prepared as you can be

The resistance is a mindset, usually developed by the lizard brain, characterized by stress, anxiety, fear of failure, fear of success and a whole host of other emotions that whir around our brains and tell us to stand still

‘Joining a Facebook group about productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.’
– Merlin Mann

Realize that you’ll never get everything done. That’s not the game any more. Be safe in the knowledge that you’re in control, selecting the right things to do, and that you’re doing as much as one human being possibly can, and you will find a way through it.

FIVE OTHER BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ!

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
Getting Things Done, David Allen
The War of Art, Stephen Pressfield
Meeting Together, Lois Graessle, George Gawlinski and Martin Farrell
Linchpin, Seth Godin