The Best Minute: Showing up, busyness, and how to be productive

1 PERSONAL GROWTH TIP FROM ME

Showing up is more important than the result.

Before you can improve, you must first create the habit. Instead of trying to figure out the perfect routine, create the habit of doing. Read 5 pages a day. Practice 5 minutes a day. Eat 100 fewer calories than normal. Write one page.

Practice the habit of showing up, then you can focus on mastering the finer details. In the words of Atomic Habits author James Clear, “You have to standardize before you can optimize.”

2 QUOTES FROM OTHERS

I. C.S. Lewis on what busyness is:

“Busyness for most of us is a form of sloth because we haven’t planned well enough in order to embrace rest.”

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II. Thomas Mitchell on how to be productive:

“It is wonderful how much work can be got through in a day, if we go by the rule—map out our time, divide it off, and take up one thing regularly after another. To drift through our work, or to rush through it in a helter-skelter fashion, ends in comparatively little being done. ‘One thing at a time’ will always perform a better day's work than doing two or three things at a time. By following this rule, one person will do more in a day than another does in a week.”

1 INTERESTING FACT

Unlike Earth, the moon has no atmosphere to help shield it from the radiation of the sun. This means that when the sun is hitting the surface of the moon, it's baking the surface at a scorching 260° Fahrenheit. Beyond that, on the far side of the moon where the sun doesn't shine, it can fall to a bone-chilling -387° Fahrenheit.

Source: Best Life