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Name: Less Doing, More Living
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Author: Ari Meisel

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What’s in it for me? Learn how to free up more time for yourself by becoming super efficient.

We all wish we had more time to spend on the things we love doing – whether that means spending more time with our family or working on our hobbies. But, although we really want to, time is something of which we never seem to have enough.

This is where these blinks come in. In these blinks, we’re going to show you how you can find time in your schedule and space in your brain to spend most of your time doing what you want to do. We’ll base this advice on three central aims – Optimize, Automate and Outsource. By focusing on each of these, you’ll unleash waves of efficiency in everything you do, from organizing your finances to maintaining your health.

Track your life to learn where you can start saving time.

Do you know about the 80-20 rule? If you don’t, here’s a recap. The 80/20 rule states that 80 percent of what you accomplish results from just 20 percent of all your time and energy. And this rule is the case for pretty much everything you do – this includes your studies, your work, and your exercise routines.

As the rule suggests, you should spend most of your focus on this vital 20 percent. But how do you figure out what 20 percent of time and tasks you need to focus on?

You need to start tracking. By tracking your work and your time, you’ll get a good idea of where it’s being spent well and where it isn’t.

Now, this sounds great! But who’s got time to live their busy schedule and observe it at the same time? Luckily, there are a few resources which can make tracking your time much easier.

First, there’s RescueTime. It’s a program that monitors what you’re actually doing on your computer all day. If you use it, you’ll be able to spot which websites or applications are stealing your day away. RescueTime will then help you block access to them. Problem solved!

RescueTime is a great way to track your productivity. But, what if you want to track your health as well?

One great way to track your health is to go back to basics with an old-school paper journal. In your journal, record everything you eat during the day. As well as this, you could get your hands on a pedometer or smartwatch to count all the steps you take and you should also make an effort to weigh yourself each day. It might seem like a lot, but the more you know about your health each day, the sooner you’ll be able to improve it.

When you’ve tracked your life, and gained an idea of where you’re spending your time wisely and where you’re wasting it, it’s time to optimize it. But how do you do this? How do you craft a daily routine that works? Well, you should think of it as optimizing your processes. For a role model, look to IKEA. Each IKEA product comes with highly optimized instruction manuals for assembling each product, whether it’s a coffee table or geometric lamp. These instructions have been boiled down to their very essence – a few language-independent, easy-to-follow steps.

Approach your life like IKEA approaches its manuals. Whatever the task, whether it’s writing emails or organizing meetings, you should minimize the fuss and get it done in as few steps as possible.

Create an external brain to save valuable space in your own.

We all like to think of ourselves as great multi-taskers with brilliant memories. But we’re not. Most of us don’t actually have enough room in our minds to juggle all the information we need to keep track of. What we all need is an extra brain. But this is impossible, right?

No! It’s not impossible at all. An extra brain is available to everyone.

Customize to save time – and money!

Let’s imagine you’ve got a great idea for the perfect bedroom shelving unit to suit your needs. You know you’ll have to build it yourself, which means buying the materials, borrowing tools, and spending hours preparing and cleaning up. It sounds like quite the project. If only there was an easier and less expensive way!

Well, there is: 3D printing.

Take control of your workweek.

When Tim Ferriss published his bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek, everyone knew there was some exaggeration involved – you obviously can’t get a book written if you only work four hours each week! Nevertheless, The 4-Hour Workweek makes an important point: you need to make your workweek yours, and decide what to do, and when.

The first step in owning your work-week is to determine which hours of the day are your best working hours. Knowing this will automatically make you more effective. Some people prefer working at night; others, in the morning. Some like working a bit every day, while others like to squeeze a lot into shorter periods of time.

Errands add up, so eliminate them!

If you had a clear conception of how much time you spend running errands each month, you’d be shocked. But we rarely think of errands like this. A dash to the corner store for toilet paper or dish soap, that’s no big deal, right?

But errands like these add up; they can take a massive dent in your day. So, if you want more productivity, you’ve got to kill those errands!

Stay on top of your finances with the latest tools.

In the first blink, we learned about the value of tracking things like your time and dietary habits. However, it’s not always beneficial to spend loads of time tracking everything. Trying to track your finances, for example, can often result in strain and stress.

Keeping tabs on what and where you spend is a challenge, especially when you have several bank accounts and credit cards, not to mention things like loans, mortgages, and stocks and bonds.

Give yourself limits and boost your quality of life.

We’ve all been there: a desk seething with piles of paper; a floor only traversable via a narrow path through a chaos of stuff. And surrounded by all that stuff, you can never find exactly what you need when you need it.

But there’s no need for this headache! You can overcome it by setting limits for yourself.

Batch your tasks to stay focused.

Have you ever had the frustrating experience of just getting into something – and then being interrupted by a distracting text or email? It ruins your focus and now you’re irritated to boot.

Well, there’s a way to keep your focus from being destroyed like this. It’s called batching.

Health is the ultimate productivity secret.

It’s as simple as this: getting enough shut-eye and eating healthy determines how much energy you will have to do the things you want to do. No amount of productivity apps in the world can change this!

When you deprive yourself of sleep, your body starts producing a rather unpleasantly named hormone called ghrelin. Ghrelin increases hunger and lowers levels of another hormone, leptin, which regulates metabolism. When our metabolism doesn’t function properly, we will inevitably get tired.

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Less Doing, More Living (2014) guides you through nine fundamental steps on your journey toward becoming more effective. In these blinks, the author shares his favorite tools and techniques for optimizing, automating, and outsourcing everything on that pesky to-do list, thus giving you time for the things that are most important in your life.

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Über den Autor

Ari Meisel is an author and entrepreneur. He advises businesses, leaders, and others on how to add value to both their endeavors and lives by employing effective time-management strategies.

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