You Don’t Need to Clear the Decks to Focus on Important Work

You Don’t Need to Clear the Decks to Focus on Important Work

Contributed by: Leo Babauta We’ve all done it: we have an important task to do, and yet we have to do a thousand other things before we can start such as process email and reply to messages, make sure we’re up-to-date with the latest news, pay bills and check on our bank accounts, make sure […]

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Single-Minded Devotion to a Task

Single-Minded Devotion to a Task

Contributed by: Leo Babauta I’m going to share a secret to productivity, happiness and mindfulness that you can practice right now, and every day: Devote yourself single-mindedly to anything you do. And by that, I mean anything. For example, you can single-mindedly focus on: Writing, Washing a dish, Talking to someone, Reading an online article, […]

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3 Simple Mindset Shifts to Transform Your Work Tasks

3 Simple Mindset Shifts to Transform Your Work Tasks

Contributed by: Leo Babuta The two biggest obstacles to doing meaningful work are familiar to many of us: Burden & complaint : The work feels like a burden (difficult, overwhelming, annoying) … you might do the task but you rush through it or mentally complain about it, not wanting to do it. Unimportant & putting it […]

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Finding Motivation on Important But Non-Urgent Tasks

Finding Motivation on Important But Non-Urgent Tasks

Contributed by: Leo Babauta I have a friend who is self-employed, running his own business and doing a great job … except that he finds himself procrastinating on important tasks like writing. No, I’m not talking about myself! Although, to be honest, I do the same thing too. We all do, I think: we know […]

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