SUBREPTICE. INSOLITE • Oh ! une radio à eau ! Et Si Nous Pensions Autrement .... À VOIR ABSOLUMENT. The Top 20 Perks That Make Jobs Better - Business. How To Set Smart Daily Goals. You’re busy. I’m busy. Everyone is busy. Yet, despite all this bustle, we often don’t feel particularly productive from day to day. Whole weeks can flash by in a blur of relatively meaningless emails, meetings, and admin tasks while the “big stuff” goes untended. As the 19th-century thinker Henry David Thoreau wrote, “It is not enough to be busy.
So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” If we want to take back control of our workday schedules and priorities, the only way to do it is by relentlessly questioning how we’re spending our time. From Leo Babauta of Zen Habits: What are you doing in this moment? The simple act of becoming more aware of where your attention is helps you to focus it where you want it to be – on creating something great. From Tony Schwartz of the Energy Project: Are you scheduling time daily to focus without interruption? The key here is control of attention. From Mark McGuinness of Lateral Action: From Chris Guillebeau of The Art of Non-Conformity: