What would happen if we slowed down?

🐌 Cal Newport asks What would happen if we slowed down? [Overwhelm] arises as a natural result of lea [Coach Tony]( Coach Tony [@tonystubblebine]( 🐌 Cal Newport asks [What would happen if we slowed down?]( [Overwhelm] arises as a natural result of leaving knowledge workers to self-regulate their workload. It’s difficult for even the most organized and intentional among us to manage a constant influx of requests, and messages, and project proposals, and, God help us, Zoom meeting invites — so we default to a simple heuristic: start saying “no” when we feel stressed, as this provides psychological cover to retreat in an otherwise ambiguous terrain of never-ending potential labor. I filed Cal’s thought under busy vs. productive. It is legit hard to always keep in mind what matters in life and whether you are making true progress. So for most of us, feeling busy is a placeholder that means that at least we gave all of our time toward success. —– 🔭 Habits as a tool for building space Space opens up for us when we choose, organize and simplify our goals and build habits to support them. We aren’t mentally wasting time wondering what to do next. We aren’t procrastinating and scrolling through the internet trying to propel ourselves to the next undecided goal. Instead, there are pillars already established in our day, and an enormous amount of space starts to open up between them. From [How to Build Success out of Simplicity and Habits]( by [Tania Moonen]( —– 🔎 [The most helpful Google Search modifiers via Lifehacker.]( These are productivity and learning game changers. You can force Google to give you much better results if you use them. One specific one that I use for product reviews is site:reddit.com. When the normal Google results have been polluted by spammers, you can often find real people discussing the good and bad of a product. —- 💪 Get one week of coaching for free. This is special. I haven’t given out a promo code for coaching in a long time. Try one of our habit coaches for one week free (my treat) with the promo code BETTERWEEK. It takes 30 to 100 days to form a rock solid habit so if you like the power of your coach, keep going! This promo code is good until Monday. To use it browse the [habit coaches in our coaching directory](. Don’t miss out on the other issues by Coach Tony [Become a member for $5 per month]( Did you enjoy this issue? [Yes]( [No]( [Coach Tony]( Coach Tony [@tonystubblebine]( Quick tips, inspirations and knowledge on productivity, happiness, health and making an impact on our world. Official email of @BttrHumans You can manage your subscription [here](. If you don't want these updates anymore, please unsubscribe [here](. If you were forwarded this newsletter and you like it, you can subscribe [here](. Created with [Revue by Twitter](.