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Name: The Power of Less
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Author: Leo Babauta

Leo Babauta

The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential ... in Business and in Life

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If you want to work effectively, limit yourself to the essential.

In today’s world, all of us do, consume and produce more than ever before. Day after day, we’re bombarded with information and receive dozens, even hundreds, of emails and phone calls prompting us to do something.

Many of us use our energy to take care of everything and be everywhere without differentiating between the essential and the inessential. Productivity techniques are designed to help us take care of as much of everything as possible every day.

But having a lot to do isn’t the same as actually getting a lot done. Most of the time, people who have a lot to do end up doing a lot of unimportant, unnecessary things.

In order to stop that from happening, we have to set limits for ourselves and force ourselves to focus on the essential things.

And by limiting ourselves to the essential, we manage to achieve the greatest impact with the least amount of effort.

People who limit themselves learn to concentrate on what’s truly important to them in all areas of life. By consciously tackling fewer things in a day, they can do a good job of taking care of what’s truly important. Because limiting our focus to our most important projects – as opposed to working on 20 projects at once – will enable us to finish these few projects quickly and successfully.

Deliberately limiting ourselves forces us to work effectively on the things that will really help us move forward.

If you want to concentrate on what’s necessary, get your priorities straight.

If you want to concentrate on the essential, you have to figure out exactly what things are essential to you. As soon as you know what you find indispensable, you can begin to get rid of all the things in your life that are superfluous.

How can you tell what’s essential? By judging how things change your life and whether they match up with your long-term goals. When doing so, it’s helpful to ask yourself the right questions, for example:

Live your priorities: make and be clear about decisions.

Living without restrictions is like shopping without a credit limit. Because the only way we end up focusing on what’s truly important is by being forced to budget.

Limiting ourselves allows us to focus our energy on the important things in life. In other words, we can stop wasting time and energy on things that aren’t actually worth it.

If you want to change your life, change your habits.

If you want to make a lasting change in yourself, you have to learn to form and develop new habits.

That works best when you limit yourself to working on one habit at a time. If you manage to do one new habit each day, they’ll become second nature.

Develop your habits slowly but surely.

Instead of starting small, most of us usually want to transform everything from one day to the next. As a result, we fail and then give up in frustration. That’s why our plans to make any sort of lasting change are so frequently unsuccessful.

But it doesn’t need to be that way. Consistency is the key to creating habits. And you’re most likely to achieve consistency by starting small and slowly working towards your goals.

Focus on one success at a time: think in goals, sub-goals, projects and tasks.

Setting goals is easy; achieving them is exponentially harder. We need energy, focus and motivation – all of which we only have in limited supply.

That’s why we’re most likely to achieve something when we focus exclusively on that one specific goal. If you have a goal that can be achieved in, say, six to 12 months, it would make sense to put all your energy into achieving that one goal.

Stay focused – live in the now and concentrate fully on every task.

Focus is your most important tool.

When doing your tasks, stay focused on the important, the essential. The most effective way to start your day is to take care of the most important task, then the second-most important one, etcetera.

Start every day with your most important tasks.

We don’t do projects – we do tasks. And doing so effectively requires us to concentrate fully on one task at a time. Multitasking doesn’t work.

In order to avoid procrastinating and multitasking, make your tasks so small that you can take care of them quickly, e.g., in a half an hour. It’s always the big tasks that end up not getting done because the obstacle of getting started on them is too enormous.

Boost your efficiency by minimizing the time you spend on emails.

As with many people, you probably spend too much time reading and writing emails. But usually it doesn’t help you achieve your goals or even have anything to do with them.

That said, try to minimize the amount of time you spend on emails.

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The Power of Less introduces Leo Babauta’s ideal of productive minimalism. His approach focuses mainly on the development of good habits as the key to long-term changes.

Wer The Power of Less lesen sollte

Anyone interested in learning how to achieve more by working less
Anyone who wants to learn what productive minimalism could be like
Anyone who feels overwhelmed by their life

Über den Autor

Productivity and minimalism are the two main topics Leo Babauta deals with on his blog zenhabits.net. Over the course of his career as a blogger, Babauta quit smoking, began jogging, lost the weight he needed to, became a vegan and paid all his debts. Time magazine ranks him among the top 25 most influential bloggers in the world.

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