Break These Productivity Rules (If They’re Not Working) (TPS622)

Should you really eat that frog first thing every morning? We aren’t so sure, and in this encore episode, we’re throwing out four pieces of productivity advice so widely repeated that most people follow them without ever asking whether they actually work. From the classics to the modern assumptions, we make the case that some of the most popular productivity wisdom might be quietly holding you back.

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Cheat Sheet

• 🎧 Top 3 Productivity Resources [1:31]
• 🌅 Why the early risers really win — and the “time arbitrage” idea behind it [5:17]
• 📅 The “crazy” one-day meeting fix that gave back the whole week [11:16]
• 📈 What actually happened after every meeting moved to Wednesday [17:00]
• 💸 The productivity lever nobody in this industry talks about [24:12]
• 🙋 No budget? How to buy back time when you’re starting from zero [35:00]
• 🐸 The take that might get Brooks fired: skip eating the frog [39:56]

Links

• Masterclass
• Even Realities
• HomeServe
• 25X Productivity Coaching
• Grailed
• Daylio
• Snapseed
• 8 Strategies for Waking Up Early and Becoming a Morning Person (TPS130)
• Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
• 6 Tips for Running More Effective Meetings (TPS195)
• TaskRabbit
• Instacart
• Whole Foods Market
• Bodybuilding.com
• WebMD
• How I Spend $5,000/Month to Win Back Time
• Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy
• Erin Chase — $5 Dinners
• Structuring the Day and Week w/ Erin Chase (TPS226)

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