1: “When we’re asked,” Google productivity expert Laura Mae Martin writes in her book Uptime, “to schedule a meeting on Monday at 8:00 a.m. the day we’re returning from a two-week vacation, we think ‘Sure!’ and add it to our calendars.”
What don’t we do?
“Envision future 7:45 a.m.-Us that day trying to make that happen,” Laura notes.
The psychological research is clear: There is a disconnect between our … 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: The goal? To be more productive and less stressed.
Google productivity expert Laura Mae Martin believes there is one simple thing we must do.
Make a list of every open loop we currently have in our brains.
Personal. Professional. Projects. Deadlines. Ideas. To-Dos of all types and flavors.
“If we do only one thing from this entire chapter, it should be this,” Laura writes in her book Uptime: A … continue reading
1: What if we worked backwards?
What if we did the year in review? But at the beginning of the year?
“With slides and a full presentation about how we hit our sales numbers.”
That’s how Google productivity expert Laura Mae Martin describes “one of the greatest leaders I’ve worked with” in her book Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing.
This leader conducted an annual “pre-postmortem” … continue reading
1: What if someone were to stop us in the street and ask us to share our top three priorities?
What would we say? Can we answer quickly and confidently?
“This is the very first question I ask anyone I’m coaching,” says Google productivity expert Laura Mae Martin in her book Uptime: A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing.
“The first step for productivity is defining clearly what … continue reading
“Work is done, then forgotten. Therefore it lasts forever.” The Tao Te Ching
1: Who doesn’t love a new beginning?
New projects. New things. New relationships.
“Because the moment of starting belongs to the world of limitlessness: For as long as we haven’t done any work on a project, it’s still possible to believe that the end result might match the ideal in our minds,” Oliver Burkeman writes in Meditations … 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
