Mindset: Time management
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Hallmark movies as a case for lifestyle-centric planning
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
January 6, 2025
Goal setting
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Time management
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Long-term planning
6
- Hallmark movies secretly sell lifestyle freedom, not romance
- Resonant daily life beats any single grand career goal
- Study less time, more active recall — white paper method works
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Be ruthless to the things that don't matter
The Daily Stoic
January 3, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
- Small daily surrenders — not big failures — consume your life.
- Marcus Aurelius journaled to hold himself accountable when no one else would.
- Default to no: ask for reasons not to do something, not reasons to.
How top COOs use four steps to get more done in less time
Cameron Herold
December 30, 2024
Time management
8
Outsourcing & delegation
7
Delegation
5
- Setting a time ceiling beats estimating how long a task takes
- Prioritise with A/B labels, then number A's by impact
- Delegate 80% of your weekly hours so you own only the critical few
30 brutal business truths every founder should know sooner
Dan Martell
December 15, 2024
Time management
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Management
7
Business models
6
- Spend money to buy back time — not time to save money.
- The bottleneck is almost always the founder, not the business.
- Train people on principles; telling them what to do keeps you trapped.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Five productivity rules that help CEOs compress time and do more
Dan Martell
December 4, 2024
Productivity & habits
10
Time management
9
Communication
5
- Sequencing your day like Tetris makes results inevitable, not accidental.
- Your biggest opportunities come through loose ties, not close contacts.
- Constraint — capped travel, blocked calendars — creates more freedom than freestyle days.
Stop firefighting: two tactics to protect strategic focus
Bill Gallagher
December 3, 2024
- Identify the exact moment your day derails — then act before it.
- Block strategic work at the day's start before reactive tasks crowd it out.
- Small daily deposits on strategic priorities make all the difference.
A kinder approach to time management using the PLAN pyramid
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
December 2, 2024
Time management
9
Productivity & habits
7
Work-life balance
5
- Why starting from future goals keeps you perpetually behind
- Integration beats greatness as the lens for getting things done
- Adjusting and noticing count as planning skills — not just preparation
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Seven habits to quit to build wealth and stop wasting time
Dan Martell
November 13, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Time management
6
- Your environment sets your thermostat — not your positive attitude.
- Saying no to one opportunity is saying yes to your biggest goal.
- Reading without acting is shelf help — the value is in execution.
Work-life balance
Podcast
Managing non-work tasks without over-scheduling your life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 28, 2024
Work-life balance
9
Productivity & habits
8
Time management
6
- Why time blocking your evenings causes burnout, not productivity
- The generic household task heuristic: daily progress beats project planning
- AR glasses with virtual screens will replace all physical monitors
Cal Newport and Oliver Burkeman on productivity, finitude, and the efficiency trap
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
October 17, 2024
Time management
8
Work-life balance
7
- No system can close the gap between finite time and infinite tasks.
- Freeing up bandwidth just creates more tasks — the efficiency trap.
- Self-trust is trainable; rules should serve your life, not the reverse.
Eight time rules for high-output CEOs without sacrificing personal life
Dan Martell
September 3, 2024
Time management
10
Processes & SOPs
6
- Your calendar and bank account reveal your real priorities, not your words.
- Batch, chunk, and sequence work to cut context-switching time by two-thirds.
- Output = Time × Leverage — the four C's multiply what one person can produce.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Todd Henry on building a daily creative practice
Beyond the To-Do List - Productivity for Work and Life
August 12, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
6
Time management
5
- Anyone who solves problems for a living is already a creative professional
- 366 randomised daily prompts beat themed chapters — surprise deepens impact
- Insights without application expire; daily five-minute practice builds lasting intentionality
Giving up on "done": how leaders manage competing demands
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Time management
7
Culture building
7
Communication
5
- Effortless productivity is a myth — build ease, not output.
- A 90-day brain dump forces the painful but clarifying cut to six priorities.
- Strengths mismatches, not low performers, are what organisations should fix.
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Using data and personal analytics to solve problems faster
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
9
Time management
8
Business operating systems
6
- A problem well defined is a problem half solved — collect data first
- Quantify both your workload and capacity to expose the real gap
- Fix the time, flex the scope to reclaim peace-of-mind productivity
Productivity & habits
YouTube
Daniel Pink on timing: daily schedules, midpoints, and peak performance
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Time management
8
Management
7
- Your peak, trough, and recovery windows determine which tasks to do when
- A judge's break — not the facts — predicts whether a prisoner gets parole
- Teams nearly always accelerate at the exact midpoint of a project