Your doctor has told you that if you work a minute more than one hour each day, your heart will explode. This is how Tim Ferriss sets up the question. So what would you do? This is a thought exercise…but also not. I tried this for two days over the summer. How did I spend my one hour of work? 15 minutes high level email. 5 minutes nit-picky email. 30 minutes working on new resources for my language learning business. 10 minutes updating my Workflowy to-do lists and planning out what should happen the next day. (The last 10 minutes was the real revelation for me. I’ve only got 60 minutes before my heart explodes and 10 of them go to planning and to-do’s? What the hell? Turns out having a well-defined to-do list for the next day is CRUCIAL for me.) What does your 1 hour look like? What does that tell you about your (and your colleagues’) “normal” 8+ hour workday?

Source: The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss

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