You only experience the life you focus on.

ELIMINATE MORE THAN YOU ADD

When you know what you want, most choices eliminate themselves. Japanese saying on the art of thoughtful elimination: Your garden is not complete until there is nothing else you can take out of it. Practical- Evernote- detailed daily list + order, ical, SM/Site bookmarked, unsubscribe to emails, turn off notifications + sounds, group texts, set a timer, figure out your brands/style

If you don’t give your life a direction, the world will give it a distraction.

TIME ALLOCATION-CAL

Your primary job is time allocation   

It’s not that we don’t have time. It’s that we don’t have time for the things that are really important. There’s always enough time to do what’s really important, but we get caught up doing things that aren’t important

Your calendar is the most honest autobiography you'll ever write. It doesn't matter what you say your priorities are; your calendar reveals the truth. 

EDIT

Edit your life to allow for the things that are most meaningful to you

Is this really the best use of my time?  How much of what I am doing is actually meaningful/important to my life? Edit. Edit. Edit.

Discipline trumps willpower.

Reduce your interruptions

How am I spending my time?  Is this how I want to spend it? Are your answers in alignment?  If not, you will be in crisis at some point.

Don’t tell me your priorities, show me your calendar

Fight overwhelm and edit your life to what’s important to you.  Edit out the things that bring no true meaning. 

OHIO method- only handle it once- we all have things we have to resolve in a given day.  Being decisive will save you hours and free you up for your passions and family

SUBTRACT

Removing what shouldn't exist creates more value than any addition could.

Bill Gates once had the radio removed from his car. When asked why, he said he didn't want any distractions from thinking about Microsoft. This level of single-minded focus is what builds empires. Distractions are the assassins of great work. 

You don't need more time; you need more focus.  Time expands when we eliminate interruptions—our attention, not the clock, ultimately limits what we can achieve.  

Most people are too loyal to their distractions to ever meet their destiny. The courage isn't in taking on more, it's in cutting off everything that doesn't feed your goal. Focus requires subtraction.

SOCIAL MEDIA + TECH- USE WITH INTENTION + ADVANCED PLANNING

Be thoughtful and deliberate to use your tech for good- to enrich your life rather than distract it.  

Your body reflects what you eat. Your mind reflects what you consume. For a healthy body, choose whole foods. For a sharp mind, choose lasting knowledge. What’s lasting knowledge? It’s wisdom that endures: Timeless principles, foundational ideas, and insights that remain relevant for years, not hours. Before diving into the news or scrolling through feeds, ask: “Will this still matter next year?” If not, it’s probably mental junk food. The sugar high will leave you craving even more. Avoid mental junk food. Feed your mind substance. Your future self will thank you.

Bad information is worse than no information at all.

You become what you scroll. Choose accordingly.

I don't want followers- i want peer relationships

Regulate it not necessarily eliminate it.  It really is a drug and it’s engineered to be a drug, which doesn’t mean that we can’t use it.  Try to use it as an awesome tool and not to be used by it or get lost in it.  Figure out how to make this tool something that is good for us and not harmful.  More time on SM divesting energies from real life interactions.  Mission should be preserving and maintaining. offline ways to connect with each other.  Use it with intention and advance planning- prior to being in the situation.  Literal and physical barriers you can put b/t yourself and your phone/computer where you aren’t constantly distracting yourself.  We are losing the ability to have a sustained thought. 

Create intentional physical and metacognitive barriers between yourself and your phone before being in that situation. This creates spaces where you’re not constantly interrupting and distracting yourself. We’re losing the ability to have sustained thoughts. We get partway through a thought, hit the hard part where we don’t know what’s next, then check our phone. We never get to finish that thought, which is the source of creative energy and original ideas