Happy Friday!
Today;
The Hustle ran a twitter poll on how many ACTUAL hours of work people do for their 9-5. Answers ranged wildly! (https://twitter.com/TheHustle/status/1491441832936591365)
How much do you do?
Working for myself in a field which requires face-to-face and work tied to 'time', the financial density of different work is a constant balance, and one I think about a lot.
I love the idea of identifying the most useful thing you could do in any given period, and then... doing it. And letting everything else happen afterwards.
Similar ideas are in today's book - Brian Tracy's "Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time" - (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95887.Eat_That_Frog_)
Two time management ideas:
The Pomodoro Technique - https://francescocirillo.com/pages/pomodoro-technique
The Four Hour Work Week Tools - https://tim.blog/4-hour-workweek-tools/
Three great, old documentaries on YouTube:
G. Faure - Requiem, Sergiu Celibidache in Rehearsal, London Symphony Orchestra BBC 1983 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf_1kaf2Otc
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring, Rehearsal - Leonard Bernstein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kyso5VmZ6g
David Hockney ~ The Art of Seeing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdqch3-D94A
best
Mike
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Could Brian Tracy be the lost brother of https://www.gerryanderson.com/all-about-the-tracy-brothers/ ? The pilots of Thunderbirds most certainly did not procrastinate, though I can't remember them eating any frogs!