Feel-Good Productivity: How to Do More of What Matters to You

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As a bit of background, Derek Sivers was an independent musician who wanted to sell his CDs online in the mid 1990s but there wasn’t a platform that would do this at this point in time before the internet really took off. Ali is the leading voice in personal productivity for our generation - a must-read for anyone interested in the topic.

He suggests that we should take the 20 years of retirement and spread them out throughout our life – or, mini-retirements as the author phrases them – where each year you take a few months off whilst running your business remotely and with as little contact time as possible.Doctor, YouTube superstar, podcaster, entrepreneur: Ali Abdaal knows first-hand how to be productive, achieve more, and find joy in everything you do. In fact, if it hadn’t been for this book, I probably wouldn’t have set up my YouTube channel LINK because the blog gave me the confidence to ‘show my work’ and overcome that fear that I discussed earlier of self-promotion and narcissism. Shoshin refers to a state of mind in which we approach every task and situation with the curiosity, openness and humility of a beginner. He sets this out explicitly and offers an alternative – focussing our attention on the other possibilities and paths that you could take in life which don’t require you to sign up to the 360-480 month subscription of standard office life in the twenty-first century.

Hey, friends in the UK 👋 I'll be joining How To Academy on the 15th of January in London to chat about productivity and finding joy in everything you do.I think anyone could gain quite a lot from reading this book and it certainly had an enormous impact on my own life. Managing this part of the strategy process is often the difference between success and failure for companies; it’s true for our careers, too. These principles, strategies and mindsets that helped me generate energy and feel good so I could do more of what mattered to me. I’m most familiar with Silicon Valley, but generally, people will forgive failures as long as you were honest and made a high-integrity effort.

The main idea of this book is that by sharing your work with the world, you are working towards helping people which is going to be an inherent good. I’ve been working with BookTuber Jack Edwards for some time on shaping the book and Jack happens to be one of these cool people who lives in Paris and takes sunset runs near the Eiffel Tower. But I know that I’m immensely lucky to have the company, the YouTube channel, this blog and everything that that has brought with it.And he introduces the simple, actionable changes that you can use to achieve more and live better, starting today.