I also appreciate the "low information diet" approach. I've also adopted Manager-Tools.com's approach of eliminating the "attention attenuation" by disabling outlook toast pop-ups whenever something happens in email, etc. Disabling IM, and having the discipline to NOT check email every 10 minutes will go a long way toward carving out larger contiguous time blocks which can be used for high productivity activities.
On Jan 16, 9:54 pm, Rogelio <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Dave Bunnell <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sounds intriguing. Haven't read the book though... so you'd have share more > > specifics for me to respond with feedback. Perhaps you could supply come > > excerpts? Thanksomuch, -db- > > Honestly, it's more style than substance, but finding the 2-3 diamonds > in the mountain of coal is worth the $9.99 (Kindle price). For me, it > was a few good online tools that can help with SEO and quickly > creating a website in seconds (e.g. tools like Weebly, as IANA > developer --www.weebly.com) > > One of his main takeaways is building a financial muse (i.e. something > that makes you money that you love doing) and provides so-so helpful > advice to that point. Outsourcing through various virtual assistants > is his way of handling the deluge of details that bring many of us > down each day. The other way he accomplishes a lot of this is his > version of the 80/20 rule (something those of us who skated through > school already know too well). He gives some good advice on rules to > follow while creating a muse, and bouncing the info of others who > really have created things that sell for 10x their cost, they say that > he has some great starting rules. > > One thing that he preaches is a "low information diet." I had already > been gravitating towards this. e.g. instead of reading the world news > each day, I only read the weekly summaries in certain publications I > respect (e.g. The Economist). > > If anyone else here does this, I'd be curious what you might think. A > lot of it seems right up the alley of many here in the coworking might > get some good tidbits for it, but it's likely something most will want > to borrow rather than buy. (I had a 24+ hour door to door > international flight, so I was a little less discerning). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
