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🌳 How To Work Less And Get More Done
The days of hardcore, relentless grinding work being a one-way ticket to success have passed, and there's a new guy in town: Smart Work. Smart work is the Idea of not working 16 hour days, day in day out but Instead working much fewer and delivering a better overall more productive outcome. This leads to lower chances of burnout, less stress, more productivity, and overall a better quality of life. Here are a few ways that you can incorporate smart work into your life.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“Stop feeling bad about taking rest in a world that glorifies overwork. It should be obvious that you don’t want to end up like them.”
WORK LESS AND GET MORE WORK DONE
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The days of hardcore, relentless grinding work being a one-way ticket to success have passed, and there's a new guy in town: Smart Work.
Smart work is the Idea of not working 16 hour days, day in day out but Instead working much fewer and delivering a better overall more productive outcome.
This leads to lower chances of burnout, less stress, more productivity, and overall a better quality of life. Here are a few ways that you can incorporate smart work into your life.
Parkinsons Law
Parkinson's Law is the principle that work will fill the time allocated to be completed. In simple terms, a task will only take as long as you give it. If you have 2 weeks to complete a task, it will take you 2 weeks to get it done; if you give yourself 5 days for the same task, you'll manage to finish it in 5 days.
The reason being that inadequate deadlines often cause procrastination and spending too much time on trivial matters, you either won’t start the work until the last minute because you feel as if you have an abundance of time or you will put in little effort during it.
100% work or 100% rest.
Your creative output is like a battery. You have about 3–4 hours you can dedicate to pure focus. Most people are operating at half capacity. They don't go full force on quality work because they don't take the time to recover from psychological fatigue.
Leverage
In order to work smart, you have to use leverage where possible because if you don't, you are every man doing every task to the best of your abilities, similar to the saying ‘jack of all trades, master of none’.
Leverage is everywhere you look, if you’re unsure of how to use it to your advantage, check out the edition we did on how to use leverage HERE.
Leverage can be as simple as hiring someone to do the job who is better than you at doing it or as complicated as building a system to get it done more efficiently.
ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:
Long days of hard work are not cool. It’s not entrepreneurial either, rather just inefficient. Look for smart work in everything you do in order to scale.
TAKEAWAYS:
3 Ways to utilise smart work:
Parkinsons Law
100% work or 100% rest.
Leverage
BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️
The book of the week is ‘The 4-Hour Work Week’ By Tim Ferris. It’s the step-by-step blueprint to free yourself from the shackles of a corporate job, create a business to fund the lifestyle of your dreams, and live life like a millionaire, without actually having to be one. Read it HERE
CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️
The creator of the week is @BetterIdeas, a self-improvement-based content creator focused on helping you improve every aspect of your life from your sleep to how you spend your free time to allow you to look at life from a different perspective and improve relentlessly.
LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️
Optimists don't worry about the future because they're the ones building it.
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