Theme your days (productivity tip)

[Kingmaker]

I learned this from Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter and Stripe) on the video below:

He works 16 hour days (8 at Twitter and 8 at Stripe). Each day is themed to stay productive:

• Monday: Management and running the company
• Tuesday: Product
• Wednesday: Marketing and communications
• Thursday: Developers and partnerships
• Friday: Company culture and recruiting
• Saturday: Take off, hike
• Sunday: Reflection, feedback, strategy.

I started using it and my productivity went up dramatically. You can modify it to suit your needs too. Here's my week for example:

• Monday: Reflection and planning
• Tuesday: Product
• Wednesday: Marketing
• Thursday: Study suppliers
• Friday: Study competition
• Saturday: Product
• Sunday: Marketing

I do it in conjunction with "The One Thing" method. Hope this helps someone.

 

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[Jesse Dallenbach]

I learned this from Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter and Stripe) on the video below:

He works 16 hour days (8 at Twitter and 8 at Stripe). Each day is themed to stay productive:

• Monday: Management and running the company
• Tuesday: Product
• Wednesday: Marketing and communications
• Thursday: Developers and partnerships
• Friday: Company culture and recruiting
• Saturday: Take off, hike
• Sunday: Reflection, feedback, strategy.

I started using it and my productivity went up dramatically. You can modify it to suit your needs too. Here's my week for example:

• Monday: Reflection and planning
• Tuesday: Product
• Wednesday: Marketing
• Thursday: Study suppliers
• Friday: Study competition
• Saturday: Product
• Sunday: Marketing

I do it in conjunction with "The One Thing" method. Hope this helps someone.

WOW!

I actually wrote a list of things to do today last night and titled it "Get This SHIT Done TODAY!" This is definitely my theme for the day. I am 33% complete (7/21 tasks).

Great Post King!

- Jesse

 

[Asp]

I'm surely going to play around with that approach.

Great post!

 

[RHL]

Well, you can't argue with the results.

 

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[Tyler Ellison]

I'm a big fan of 'The ONE Thing' - when I approach my days with the mentality it teaches I'm definitely way more productive.

The most difficult thing is identifying what is really most important, because it's not always what's most urgent.

 

[James Thornton]

I like this. One focused power session on rotation.

I do this with workouts, only switching days up based on good running weather.

...but 16 hours per day just breaks my brain! What a savage!

 

[Iwokeup]

I learned this from Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter and Stripe) on the video below:

He works 16 hour days (8 at Twitter and 8 at Stripe). Each day is themed to stay productive:

• Monday: Management and running the company
• Tuesday: Product
• Wednesday: Marketing and communications
• Thursday: Developers and partnerships
• Friday: Company culture and recruiting
• Saturday: Take off, hike
• Sunday: Reflection, feedback, strategy.

I started using it and my productivity went up dramatically. You can modify it to suit your needs too. Here's my week for example:

• Monday: Reflection and planning
• Tuesday: Product
• Wednesday: Marketing
• Thursday: Study suppliers
• Friday: Study competition
• Saturday: Product
• Sunday: Marketing

I do it in conjunction with "The One Thing" method. Hope this helps someone.

Good post and useful. Thanks!

 

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[damondietz]

I learned this from Jack Dorsey (CEO of Twitter and Stripe) on the video below:

He works 16 hour days (8 at Twitter and 8 at Stripe). Each day is themed to stay productive:

• Monday: Management and running the company
• Tuesday: Product
• Wednesday: Marketing and communications
• Thursday: Developers and partnerships
• Friday: Company culture and recruiting
• Saturday: Take off, hike
• Sunday: Reflection, feedback, strategy.

I started using it and my productivity went up dramatically. You can modify it to suit your needs too. Here's my week for example:

• Monday: Reflection and planning
• Tuesday: Product
• Wednesday: Marketing
• Thursday: Study suppliers
• Friday: Study competition
• Saturday: Product
• Sunday: Marketing

I do it in conjunction with "The One Thing" method. Hope this helps someone.

How would you recommend someone theme a day in the startup phase?

 

[aditya.susilo]

Amazing. Definitely want to try this on my daily activity.

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[eliquid]

Im going to stand out and say he must be super human.

16 hours a day? Really?

Humans are cognitive misers - will power and energy all have limited capacity during the day. Im sure it doesn't hurt that he has a team of VPs and directors under him... but for the average person or small company, pulling off 16 hours a day between 2 companies will prob. fail

 

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