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1. Don’t work long hours
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2. Take breaks
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3. Take even longer breaks
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4. Stop work and sit down for meals
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5. Don’t work in the afternoons
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6. Mix it up
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our minds don’t need rest as much as they need variety
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7. Aim low
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8. Take time to relax
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9. Get up early(?)
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10. Exercise!
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Andrew Murphielet this be a lesson to us all!
development happiness inspiration for:rrh_222 for:foldingthought for:transitlounge for:annamunster
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Rei G.There are at least 10 other lessons that the daily routines of the great can teach us:
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08 Apr 08
Doug BelshawSome ideas for becoming more productive (like Nelson Mandela's 5am walks!)
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Rafael AlvaradoIt takes courage and resolve to design and stick to a routine that suits you.
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TomThe lives of great people give us interesting clues about how to organise our days.
All of them attached great value to their daily routines. This is because they saw it as being part of ‘becoming who they are’, as Nietzsche puts it.
For the same reason they were also highly individual in their routines. They had the courage to go against popular opinion and work out often strange daily plans that suited them.
This is perhaps the first lesson that we can learn – that it takes courage and resolve to design and stick to a routine that suits you. But as Emerson reassures us: ‘The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going’.
There are at least 10 other lessons that the daily routines of the great can teach us:-
The lives of great people give us interesting clues about how to organise our days.
All of them attached great value to their daily routines. This is because they saw it as being part of ‘becoming who they are’, as Nietzsche puts it.
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The great all spent a single long period away from their desks every day to give their minds time to recover and regain its creative poise.
Beethoven started work at daybreak, but wrapped up by two or three in the afternoon which left him a good 14 hours away from work. Victor Hugo wrote in the mornings and took afternoons off entirely. Churchill would do nothing work-related between noon and around 11 at night.
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There are some exceptions, but very few of our heroes did any serious work in the afternoon.
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Immanuel Kant went for afternoon walks and sat down for lunch with friends each day.
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have morning and evening routines, and leave the middle of the day open for completing key tasks and other things that come up.
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This one is the subject of hot debate. Samuel Johnson, Churchill and Dylan Thomas got up late. Gandhi, Franklin and Mandela all got up early.
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that it takes courage and resolve to design and stick to a routine that suits you
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Despite the modern obsession with physical presence at offices (also known as ‘presenteeism’), very few of the great worked long hours.
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The days of the great contain a surprising variety of activities
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He famously claimed that our minds don’t need rest as much as they need variety.
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Daily routines are supposed to make things easier, not more complicated. Micro managing every minute of your day does not work.
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they blocked out time to do nothing at all.
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10. Exercise!
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patrick andrewsThe great all reserved time to relax. And this doesn’t mean engaging in some semi-productive activity like reading a book or washing the dishes. No, they blocked out time to do nothing at all. Gandhi would often spend time just staring at the horizon. C
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10 Ways History’s Finest Kept Their Focus at Work
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they were also highly individual in their routines. They had the courage to go against popular opinion and work out often strange daily plans that suited them.
This is perhaps the first lesson that we can learn – that it takes courage and resolve to design and stick to a routine that suits you.
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1. Don’t work long hours
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2. Take breaks
Even during these short days, the great took plenty of breaks.
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3. Take even longer breaks
The great all spent a single long period away from their desks every day to give their minds time to recover and regain its creative poise.
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4. Stop work and sit down for meals
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5. Don’t work in the afternoons
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6. Mix it up
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7. Aim low
Don’t schedule every minute of your day
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Daily routines are supposed to make things easier, not more complicated. Micro managing every minute of your day does not work.
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8. Take time to relax
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time to do nothing at all.
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10. Exercise!
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02 Apr 08
Jorge RosaSome day, the truth had to come out. Work less, work better! Rest more, taste life better.
gtd health productivity lifehacks tips for:cristina.blue for:goblin
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