1: Hurry. Hurry. Hurry.
That’s the reality of the life we know.
“If there’s anything we pick up from reading the four Gospels,” however, John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, “it’s that Jesus was rarely in a hurry.”
“Can you imagine a stressed-out Jesus?” he asks. “Snapping at Mary Magdalene after a long day, ‘I can’t believe you dropped the hummus.’ Sighing, and saying to … continue reading
1: “On a regular basis I catch myself saying, ‘I wish there were ten more hours in a day,'” John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
Time is a problem. A limitation. A challenge.
“It doesn’t matter if we’re the CEO of a multinational corporation or a retired school bus driver, John Mark notes, “if we’re single or raising a family of seven, if we live … continue reading
1: Psychologists and mental health professionals call it “hurry sickness.”
They label it a disease. And it’s an epidemic in our modern world, John Mark Comer writes in The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
Hurry sickness is defined as “A behavior pattern characterized by continual rushing and anxiousness.”
And: “A malaise in which a person feels chronically short of time, and so tends to perform every task faster and to … continue reading
1: One of Google Productivity Expert Laura Mae Martin‘s most popular trainings centers around what she calls “The List Funnel.”
We “can think of to-do lists like a funnel,” Laura writes in her book Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing. “Start with the highest level of everything we could possibly do, or want to do, and narrow it down into what we actually will do … continue reading
1: How do we maximize our productivity?
That’s the question Laura Mae Martin is tasked with at Google. Her job title? Google productivity expert.
At the core of Laura teaching is the idea of the List Funnel, “something I’ve taught successfully at Google for years,” she writes in her book Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing.
We “can think of to-do lists like a funnel,” Laura … continue reading
“Every morning, therefore, at about 9.30 after breakfast each of us, as if moved by a law of unquestioned nature, went off and ‘worked’ until lunch at one. It is surprising how much one can produce in a year, whether of buns or books or pots or pictures, if one works hard and professionally for three and a half hours every day for 330 days [a year]. That was why, … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations.
On Fridays or over the weekend, we are exploring some of the life lessons captured by author Oliver Burkeman in his wonderful book Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts.
It was a glorious morning in … continue reading
1: This week, we’ve been exploring Dan Martell‘s concept of the “Perfect Week,” where we regain complete control of our day by planning our upcoming week.
We create a templatized weekly plan that allows us to utilize every minute of our days effectively. We batch similar tasks together into time blocks. We commit to starting and ending meetings and activities on time. We eliminate buffer time where … continue reading
1: Entrepreneur and author Dan Martell has gathered several dozen high-performing entrepreneurs in Boston for one of his “in-person intensives.”
Dale, one of Australia’s top entrepreneurs, takes the stage, Dan writes in his book Buy Back Your Time.
He begins by taking out his stopwatch and then instructs everyone in the room to write down a simple sentence: “Multitasking doesn’t work.”
He clicks on the stopwatch. It takes the … continue reading
“Many of the opportunities you have in your life are generated by the energy you create around you.” —Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica
1: It’s Tuesday. Time to take on the day.
There is, however, a hidden enemy working against us.
“Every time we switch tasks,” Dan Martell writes in his book Buy Back Your Time, our “brains have to switch focus.”
The technical term for this is “context … continue reading
