When You Think for a Living, Less is More Here’s the thing most entrepreneurs don’t realize. When you live life at the extreme edge of your capacity, you significantly damage your creativity, drive, and productivity. Existing at the limit of your capacity creates stress. Stress causes you to think small and play small in an effort to conserve energy…

Jump-Start Your Brain’s Natural Drive With “Certainty-Circuits” Regardless of what you’re trying to accomplish in life, one universal principle can help you succeed. I’m talking about the power of absolute certainty. Moving from a state of uncertainty to a state of certainty is like magic. …

How Entrepreneurs Increase Profit and Scale Faster with the Art of Ruthless Elimination Life is different for entrepreneurs. We don’t get paid for just showing up. We can spend a whole week working hard, head down, diligently pursuing an endless list of tasks, only to find ourselves more behind, overwhelmed, and in the hole than when we started. Now, as an entrepreneur, you…

How to Get More Done in Less Time by Giving Distractions a Place to Live Do you ever get to the end of your day and wonder where the time went? That’s a normal experience for entrepreneurs, but then again, it’s also normal to go out of business within the first two years. You can do better than that. Let’s fight back against the waves…

The counterintuitive magic of putting time limits on your tasks — For most of my working life, I lived by the principle I’d absorbed as a child, one I heard often both at home and at school: If you want to succeed, then put in more time. …

How to Beat Subconscious Sabotage with “Disciplined Pleasure” Who is more productive, a person who works eight hours every day, or a person who works six hours every day? If you’ve been studying productivity for long, you already know this is a trick question. We’ve been conditioned to equate “busy” and “productive.” When in reality, productivity is about…

The secret to scaling your business fast. “Bootstrapping” is noble in concept but more expensive than you think. I’ve bootstrapped a business enough times to understand the benefits and the allure of building something without spending much cash. Unfortunately, the bootstrapping method is slow. It typically goes like this: Learn and practice new tasks yourself. Create a…

Learn the one habit that serves as an anchor for all other productivity habits No one cares how busy you are or how long you work. They only care about the results you’re able to produce. That’s the reality for entrepreneurs. Despite this, many entrepreneurs spend their whole day rushing. Or worse, we spend the whole day feeling scattered and overwhelmed. That’s not a…

The Truth About Water and Productivity Would you get more done if you drank a bit more water? A few years ago, I was reading a funny and informative book by Mary Roach called Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War. It’s a book about the scientists who work behind the scenes to support the US military. In one interview, the author was put on a treadmill…