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Keep calm and carry-on!

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We are choosing to tell ourselves that we don’t have time and we are choosing to not make the time.

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You’re about 200% more productive before anybody else arrives at the office and after everybody else leaves.

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I’ve developed an addiction to having my laundry done for me. Not just having it done for me…but actually paying someone to take care of it. Which is slightly different than the unmatched joy that came from having my mom do it for me, fo’ free, while technically being an “adult” in college. That’s not an addiction – that’s just straight resourceful. This time, it’s me just being…lazy, whiny, irresponsible, or quite possibly – a genius.

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It’s perfectly acceptable to spend eight hours researching a hack for your computer that will only save you five minutes.

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8. Don’t feel bad about leaving work early.

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Use this “Eisenhower Box.”

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Put down the phone. Take a breath. Resume proper cellular device hand positioning and…call the individual you are about to engage in a three-hour-long text conversation with.

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Think about what opportunities in your life usually look like. I’ll hazard a guess based on a little experience: someone you didn’t originally have any reason to believe would greatly influence your life, did.

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Then, after delivered dinner, I drink six Red Bulls, and it’s back to another Serious Work Time to actually get some stuff done. That usually lasts until midnight, and then it’s asphyxiation time!