I’m one of the least organised people you’ll meet. I have very little structure in my day. I don’t have a morning routine, beyond brushing my teeth and checking emails.

You need to drop these bad, productivity-killing time management habits immediately.

Overconsumption of information stands in the way of creativity.

Nathan was a guy at school who always finished his homework hours before everyone else. I went to an English boarding school, and they’d put twelve boys in the same room to do homework (prep) every evening. Nathan would race through his work so that he had time to read his beloved novels. I’d look over at him nose-deep in the latest Sebastian Faulks (no joke, we were thirteen), while I fumed, toiling over my essay. Surely Nathan had poor results, because he was a ‘rusher,’ right? Wrong. He was a grade A student, consistently at the top of the class. How did he do it?

An excerpt from Luis Perez-Breva’s “doer’s manifesto” on innovating

Here it is again. That wave of discomfort. It starts like a rippling in my chest, and then a ping in my throat. I couldn’t describe the emotion because it is composed of several. Frustration; boredom; anger; restlessness; confusion, and borderline despair. I’m also sleepy. This can’t be a good start, can it? Well, yes it can, because I’ve been here many times before. Completing anything worth doing always started with moments like these. Many times, this ‘feeling’ led to some of my best work.

A lot of you watch me every day and wonder how I get so much done. When faced with so much opportunity, you wonder how I decide.

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“I don’t have enough time.” We’ve all said it before. Time poverty is a distribution issue. Many people hate being idle. They value productivity, so they glorify being busy. They seek out busyness for the sake of being busy. They sense a feeling that they are time-constrained, yet they are more time-affluent than they think.

What is ‘success’ anyway?

Finishing things is mega important. It means that the stuff we make has a greater chance of being seen, used and loved. When we finish things often, we have a shot at making a dent in this silly Universe. But there is one thing that is even more important than finishing, and that’s starting.

The key to staying focused and productive over long periods of time has far more to do with the act of stepping away—rather than pushing through and grinding past the point of exhaustion. We are humans. Not robots.

Are you an up and coming writer who has to juggle your dream job with your day job?

Listen, this is probably one of the most difficult conversations you can possibly have, but I also think it’s one of the most empowering. It all comes down to these three little words… You’re gonna die.

No, You Shouldn’t Wake Up At 5 AM.

In a perfect world, by this time of the year, you would be halfway through your 2017 goals, right? Unfortunately, not many people can commit to a course of action to get what they want every year. The Kaizen philosophy can make it insanely easy to commit to that goal. You should aim to continually make progress.

Anything worth doing brings a satisfaction that distraction never can. Don’t give into the resistance. Push through the difficulty. That’s where a joy that those who stop will never taste.

More hours in the day. Everyone wants that and yet it’s impossible to attain.

Time is the raw material of getting anything worthwhile done.

Inequality actually restricts people from earning more, educating themselves and becoming entrepreneurs.