Some of the most successful and productive people I know are lazy. They’ll tell you so. David Allen, author of Getting Things Done and the godfather of productivity. Lazy. He will tell you this at the beginning of his seminar.
Seth Godin, who writes daily blog posts and has published four hundred books and continues to launch new businesses. Lazy. He said so in a talk he gave in Seattle last year.
There’s a theme and a lesson here. You can be highly productive and very successful – but also lazy. The trick, of course, is to make better use of your time. Work smarter, not harder.
A few years ago I started spending a lot more time learning about productivity – how it works, how to make it work for me, and how to constantly make my own productivity system better. My wife, affectionately, started referring to my collection of regular productivity reading as “Productivity Porn.”
Over my next several columns, I’ll dive deeper into how you can put the lessons behind Productivity Porn to work in your own life (professional and personal). I’ll save you the time I’ve spent reading and digesting the myriad options and perspectives out there, and instead summarize and outline the specific tactics and best practices that work to help busy professionals, start-up founders and others get far more done in less time.
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