Have a reason to get stuff done (Harry Potter references inside)

Ian Stanley's 2nd Law ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ One of the main reasons people waste so much time when they work is because they don't have a reason to be done working. Now, this may not apply to people who HAVE to be in an office or at a certain location from 9-5 or whenever. But for people who work from home or for themselves, you may find this reallyuseful. I know it's helped me a lot. One of the most useful things I ever learned in my life is called Parkinson's law. That's not exaggeration. Parkinson's law basically states that work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion. You give yourself 3 hours to do a thing, it'll take ya 3 hours. Give yourself one hour, it'll probably take an hour. The simplest example is when we had to write essays in school. If you were like me, you had 30 days to write the essay. You did nothing for 29 days. Then you wrote like a meth-riddled Hemingway for a day and finished the whole thing. The work expanded to fit the amount of time you had to complete it. (Or maybe you're one of those psychos who wrote a little bit each day or week. If that's you, I don't understand you, but I respect you haha.) When it comes to our daily work there's a slightly different spin I've put on this in my own life. We'll call it Stanley's Second Law. (Stanley's Law says that anything that can go right, will go right. Yes, that's actually a law I created. I'm so arrogant I think I think I'm a modern day Newton. Jk obviously. Kinda. Jk.) Stanley's Second Law states that you will fiddle around with work for as long until a predetermined time if you have no reason to be done with it earlier. I'm still working on the exact wording since I just came up with it like 30 seconds ago. But you get the point. Or you will in a second. If you have no reason to finish your work on a given day, you won't. Or you won't till the end of the day. (Based on whatever predetermined time you've decided on or been commanded to work until.) If you have a reason to get it done early, you will. I've never really had a "real office job" but I've heard of them. And I've heard that people tell me they get 80% of their work done in the last hour before they can leave. I mean why would they get it done at 1pm if they'd just have to sit there doing nothing till 5? Might as well spend 7 hours fiddling around or kinda working. Then do what matters. I've found that if I have rewards for being done with work, I finish it sooner. When I had a "job" I used to go to the gym at 3pm every day. So I got everything done by 3. The gym time was set and it was a reward to me. (I'm fully aware that lifting weights is not a reward for most people.) I only had a job for about 18 months of my life. (And I still never had to do 9-5 hours there.) The rest of my life I've worked for myself. Which is a much different beast. For the past week or so I found myself fiddling around more during my predetermined work time. I'd throw darts or pop on a tv show while I did stuff. I wasn't being useless. I was actually quite useful. But I was expanding my time when I was supposed to be working because I had no reason to be done. Then I discovered a game called Hogwarts: Legacy over the weekend. I haven't played proper video games in about a year. But I decided to fire up the old Xbox on Saturday to play some games. And man, is this game good. (Feel free to make fun of me playing a Harry Potter game. I can take it. Protego.) So this week I decided to play a game with my game. I wrote down 3 important things I had to do that day. Once I did them. I could play the game. On Monday I absolutely murdered my work. Went to my office at like 11 and finished at 3. Did a bunch of useful stuff. (I rent an office in downtown Boise that's amazing. We have darts, a pool table, and other fun stuff. I go a few times a week to mix things up.) Yesterday was a similar story. (Except I played indoor soccer at night and scored 6 goals. And had 3 assists. That's not relevant to this story. I just had to tell someone lol.) Today has been legit so far as well. And I haven't played yet because I have my one meeting of the week today. After it, I'll probably cast some spells haha. I actually have the meeting starting in 2 minutes so I gotta wrap this up. The point of this email is simple: Have a reason to finish work. When I travel I often only work for 20 minutes to an hour per day. Late last yearI spent a month in Europe. I rarely worked more than 30 minutes per day. I only did important stuff because I wanted to spend my days exploring and doing epic shit. If you have a reason to be done, you'll finish fast. If you have nothing going on, you'll fiddle around and be ineffecient. Ok, gotta go. I can write more about this idea if you guys like it a lot. Talk soon, Ian "you're a wizard Harry" Stanley P.S. I created an AI Email Copywriting tool that seems like magic. (See what I did there? Cuz of Harry Potter?) It'll write legit emails for you in less than 30 seconds a pop. It's the Dumbledore of email copywriting AI tools. (I know that's a bold claim but I stand by it.) You can test it out for free. [ Click here to try it out]( Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( Almost Passive Income, 13359 N. Hwy 183, Ste. 550, Austin, TX 78750, United States