We could save ourselves much hassle if we knew exactly how and where to invest our time and effort.
Resolve now – now – never to iron a shirt in your life: make this your starting-point, your irreducible core, and find another way. Sick animals are almost always going to die. A struggling shrub or [...]

The key to Albert Einstein’s success was to intensely focus his attention on a small number of projects rather than trying to achieve a dozen things at the same time.
Einstein’s push for general relativity highlights an important reality about accomplishment. We are most productive when we focus on a very small number of projects [...]

This is interesting, people who procrastinate aren’t actually doing nothing, they’re often busying themselves with a plethora of smaller tasks, which are usually less relevant, or not relevant at all to what they are meant to be doing.
From outside, it sometimes appears that I manage to produce a lot of content. At least, [...]

Extreme swimmer and adventurer Lewis Pugh says one way to accomplish more is to write your goals in the past tense, as if they have already been accomplished.
For two weeks every December, Pugh composes in comprehensive detail what he intends to do the following year, writing it all in the past tense. He believes this [...]

The fashion in which the The Cult of Done Manifesto is written, perfectly encapsulates its own ideals:
I present to you a manifesto of done. This was written in collaboration with Kio Stark in 20 minutes because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.

The manifesto includes this clause which also makes for a great [...]