Simple Guidelines for Workday Quality Over Quantity

I don't know how I came across this at work today, but this article reminded me of some of the rules from Tim Ferris' 4 Hour Work Week and is worth a post to help improve the efficiency of the work/professional part of your enneagram.

This succinct set of workday guidelines is a nice blueprint for getting productive on the important stuff and ruthless about cutting the crap. Written on a unknown "major corp" whiteboard pictured here, they read:

QUALITY vs quantity, UX process.
Check email ONLY:

* 10AM
* 1PM
* 4PM

Send any time
Set email to check every 3 hours.
NO email on evenings.
NO email on weekends.
EMERGENCY? = Use phone.

FOCUS 1-3 Activities max/day
LOG 1-3 Succinct status bullets every day on team wiki

MINIMIZE chat
MAXIMIZE single-tasking

OUT by 5:30PM
~No excuses~

These common productivity edicts are worth repeating; and the author recently advised Harvard Business readers to use a daily three-item task list themselves.

He points out that on top of sleeping, showering, eating, working out, commuting, cooking, and communicating, the reality is that three things DONE is a bigger set of accomplishments than it seems!

The full article is here

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