Manage Your Day-to-Day

Build your routine, find your focus and sharpen your creative mind

This book is the first in a 3-part series that addresses the challenges of the 21st century deluge of information and sets out to provide a playbook of tried-and-true best practices for producing great work.

Let's start the year with some focusing thoughts from the book; some new and some reminders of ancient wisdom.

"Amid this constant surge of information, attention has become our most precious asset.”

"The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish"

“Shifting from mindful to mindless work gives the brain time to process complex problems in a relaxed state and also restores the energy necessary for the next round of mindful work”

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period, provided we work slowly and consistently."

"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules."

"It's the task that's never started that's the most tiresome..."

"I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work"

"Perfectionism is very dangerous, because if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything."

“There is no such thing as multitasking, only task switching ... it can feel as though we’re super efficiently doing two or more things at once ... in fact, we’re just doing one thing, then another, then back again, with significantly less skill and accuracy than if we had simply focused on one job at a time.”

"It is not enough to be busy, (the ants are busy). We must ask, "what are we busy about?"