The current CEO of Microsoft (which caused a huge rise on the stock market) wrote a book called Hit Refresh. This post is a nice summer holiday post with linked resources for you to re-think your productivity and hit refresh yourself!
Let’s start with a 42 minute video from Scott Hanselman back in 2012 at WebStock. He is blogging for years and has more about productivity.
Webstock '12: Scott Hanselman - It's not what you read, it's what you ignore from Webstock on Vimeo.
Here are the books that I have read and recommend:
Pomodoro technique– schedule tasks in small blocks of x uninterrupted minutes
Hit Refresh– The book written by the CEO of Microsoft about their transition of the company
Deep work– A book guiding you to concentrate more
Getting things done– Title says it all. Prioritize tasks and create a system
4 Hour Workweek– Work smarter with these tips and life hacks
And the blogs that I have read:
http://sourcesofinsight.com/the-rule-of-3/– pick 3 things to focus on. A bit like Warren Buffets advice
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmansCompleteListOfProductivityTips.aspx– summary of the video from the start of this post.
With these sources I came up with my own subset of productivity tools/habits:
- Use Microsoft OneNote to collect data
- Use Microsoft To-Do on mobile and desktop to create your daily to-do
- Sync to paper to schedule Pomodoro’s
- I have added the rule of 3 there but divided for personal and work goals
Here is my personal offline weekly sheet. You can download the Excel from my OneDrive account with this link:
https://1drv.ms/x/s!AlYkDgDuTE1LlWKQvwPc82KjU-7N
Let me know if you have suggestions and what works for you.
Good luck!