Time Boxing - How to Plan Your Day

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In this day and age, if you don't plan your day, what else will? On the right is traction, on the left is distraction. If something is important to you, whether it's in your work life, your home life, or taking care of yourself, it has to be on your calendar. I built a free tool that anybody can use to build a weekly template. Everything that takes over 15 minutes is on my template. It took me maybe 30 minutes to make the first time. But now for the first time, I can say, am I doing what’s on my calendar? If not, even if it seems worky checking email or being in a meeting

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Nir Eyal lectured at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and his first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, is an international bestseller and taught Silicon Valley how to design behavior. His next book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us. Nir blogs at: NirAndFar.com.

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1. The antidote to impulsiveness is forethought. You can conquer destruction by planning ahead.

2. Everything you do is to escape physical or psychological discomfort, so when you procrastinate you're always escaping an uncomfortable sensation

3. You have more power than you think, and you can become indistractable!

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