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WOWOW: Info-Fasting, Regaining Attention, and the 4-Hour Workweek

by Alexander Becker on April 21, 2007 | Link

Apparently, news-fasting is in high-demand these days, broadening the concept to e-mail and general vs. specific information triaging is all the rage when it comes to optimizing your productivity.

Try the low-information diet and extreme e-mail detox: Purge your RSS-readers, your e-mail subscriptions -- review your overall level of communication and pseudo-responsibilities.

Merlin Mann points to Brian Oberkirch on reducing noise and stealing back attention and how to --

Wrest back your attention and start responsibly firewalling your time.

Brian Oberkirch himself is --

Trimming the attention sails: You are what you pay attention to.

Consider these randomly picked but highly effective means to regain your attention --
- Reinforcing my habit of making a micro to do list of 3 to 5 things. Index card or sticky note for the day. Setting crazy short deadlines for each activity. Doing only one thing at a time.
- Stop trying to accomodate a global work schedule. Again, unless it's really mandatory or unavoidable, I work during my work hours, not those in other parts of the world.
In the meantime, Brian is referring us to Tim Ferriss's 4-hour workweek and experiments in lifestyle design with the book due next week.

Redesigning life is about making you look good. Stay tuned for more redesigning your life through making you look even better right here on WOW.

Now that the plug is over, let's get back to Tim on selective ignorance and single-tasking suggesting how to firewall attention and reclaim time --

The trick to stepping off of the gas pedal is proving to yourself that it can be done.

Here is another gem, a variation of a slow carb diet: How to lose 20 lbs. of fat in 30 days... without doing any exercise

You may want to subscribe to each one of these sites' RSS feeds but then again... you'd end up with three more subs. On the other hand, you're probably following Merlin already so choosing between the remaining two (yay, triage at work), I highly recommend Tim's blog. Or Brian's blog and Tim's book, especially after reading the first review.

To your lean excellence.
Labels: attention, email+detox, fourhourworkweek, info+diet, inspiration, lifehacks, lifestyle, lifestyle+design, linking+park, personal+branding, productivity, time+management, triage, wow

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