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035 Considering Wisdom
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A weekly newsletter from BobBarnardnm.com
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Thoughts on the intersection of Society/Culture, Productivity/You, and Wisdom/Knowledge.
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Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. Benjamin Franklin
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My WEEK
This was a good week. I went to the periodontist and found out the growths on my tongue were fibrous and not potentially cancerous. He will cut them off next month. I continue to publish my three articles a week- this newsletter, a blog on medium on simplifying investing and finance, and then a blog on self-improvement and personal productivity. If you want to sign up for my blog, please go to bobbarnardnm.com/home and sign up. The finance blog is on Medium.com.
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Considering Wisdom.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
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This is a trap that I fall into easily and often.
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Email is the culprit for me. I bet I spend an hour a day reviewing, saving, and deleting emails. Some days this amounts to over 250 emails. So how do I break this habit? Unsubscribe is the magic word. My goal is to unsubscribe to at least five a day. I don’t need to get offers to buy stuff I don’t need. I don’t need to get twenty or so newsletters a week.
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The magic pill is to unsubscribe.
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Let’s look at the bigger picture. What tasks or work should we do efficiently?
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Khe He defines four different levels of work. His paradigm is that we have $10, $100, $1000, and $10,000 work. In his class, he goes over this model in detail, the $10k Bootcamp. He builds a matrix with four quadrants based on whether the work requires low or high skill and whether you get low or high leverage from putting in your effort. It is an interesting approach to how you should choose which work to do and which tasks are most important for each day.
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It is easy for us to do the lowest skilled-lowest leveraged work efficiently, as Peter Drucker says, but not the most productive use of our time. Our time is better spent on the harder meta-work. Meta-work is thinking about why we are doing something and how we can do it better rather than just clearing our email clutter.
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We all want to get things done, and productivity has been a watchword for the last decade at least. But productivity is about getting the right things done. As Peter Drucker states, nothing is so nonproductive as doing efficiently those tasks which should not be done.
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- How do I spend my time each day? On the easy stuff or the important stuff.
- When is the best time each day for me to do the Meta-work?
- Am I Doing productive or nonproductive work most of the time?
- Take time to determine what makes you productive>
- During my daily and weekly reflections, consider the benefits of my work. Was it busy work or Meta-work?
- Make a list of the low-priority work you did this week.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it doing work efficiently that doesn't need to be done. Be Productive!
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