Do It Today: Overcome Procrastination, Improve Productivity, and Achieve More Meaningful Things

Leave Your Work At Work
But don’t just go home and bring your work with you. That
defeats the whole purpose. No one thinks it’s cool when
you’re closing deals on the phone at dinner. You’re also not
doing yourself a service by continually thinking about work
when you’re at home.
Relax a bit. Play some Call of Duty. Cook dinner for your
spouse. Take the kids for a walk. Whatever. Look, living a
happy life is very simple. It’s all within our control. We can
decide what makes us happy. I have printed this Marcus
Aurelius quote on my journal to remind me of that:
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within
yourself, in your way of thinking.”
We all know that money, success, fame, or recognition, by
themselves, don’t make us happy. And yet, we work too
much to obtain those things that don’t even make us happy
in the first place.
So why do we keep working too much that it hurts us? It
could be our ego. Maybe we just can’t help ourselves. It’s
different for every person. Personally, I don’t care about the
reason. All I know is that too much work has a negative
impact on the quality of your life and work.
What matters is that we protect ourselves from our own
stupidity. We’re just like kids. We need rules to live happily
and safely.
That’s why the first rule of work is that we leave the office
on time. The second rule is that we don’t take our work
home. And the third rule? Let’s not worry about that for now.
We’ll get to that another time. It’s time for me to go home.

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Consistency Is Key: Improve By
0.1% Every Day
Do you ever worry about things you don’t control? If you do,
join the club. It happens to all of us.
But worrying is a waste of time and energy. Imagine the
following situation: You make a mistake at work that upsets
a client. Maybe you send someone a wrong email. Maybe
you forget to solve a problem. It doesn’t matter what it is.
Imagine that something goes seriously wrong at work.
What do you do when you find out? Do you stress out? Feel
uncomfortable? Blame yourself? Blame others? Think it’s
the end of your career? When things go wrong, we become
our own worst enemy because we focus on things we don’t
control.
It’s one thing to read about these things. It’s another thing
to actually put it in practice. Because when shit hits the fan
it’s natural to panic. Instead of 
thinking
, take a step back,
and focus on what lies within your control. What do you
control? Essentially, we only control our own actions and
mindset.