if you want to become more productive, managing your time should take a backseat to how you manage your energy and attention. - Chris Bailey

The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.

While no one acts in accordance with their values all the time, the most productive people act in accordance with their values in the long run — and they do this by regularly making course corrections and finding what they need to improve on week after week.

I experimented with keeping negative distractions more than twenty seconds away with a lot of success. For example, I noticed that as soon as I moved unhealthy snacks to more than twenty seconds away from where I worked, I stopped impulsively snacking almost immediately.