“This book offers many deep and powerful insights into optimizing your day-to-day rhythms. You’ll likely find that your work habits have drifted… — Jocelyn K. Glei Books Copy Share Image
“these insights, taken together, will help you shift your mind-set, recalibrate your workflow, and push more incredible ideas to completion. —” — Jocelyn K. Glei Insights Copy Share Image
“We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period,… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“This pattern is common in people who love what they do. Their satisfaction doesn’t come from the details of their work but… — Jocelyn K. Glei Career Copy Share Image
“Frequency keeps the pressure off. If you’re producing just one page, one blog post, or one sketch a week, you expect it… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“Free Radicals want to take their careers into their own hands and put the world to work for them. Free Radicals are… — Jocelyn K. Glei Radicals Copy Share Image
“it’s better to disappoint a few people over small things, than to surrender your dreams for an empty inbox. Otherwise you’re sacrificing… — Jocelyn K. Glei Dreams Copy Share Image
“Keeping yourself in “permanent beta” makes you acknowledge that you have bugs, that there’s more testing to do on yourself, and that… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“For too long, the creative world has focused on idea generation at the expense of idea execution. As the legendary inventor Thomas… — Jocelyn K. Glei Creativity Copy Share Image
“There are many ways you can signify to yourself that you are doing your practice. For example, some people wear a white… — Jocelyn K. Glei Art Copy Share Image
“Some of the most successful people I know have slowly nurtured small, engaged networks of people who provide tremendous value to each… — Jocelyn K. Glei Relationships Copy Share Image
“Frequency is helpful when you’re working on a creative project on the side, with pressing obligations from a job or your family.… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“THE MULTITASKING MYTH Studies show that the human mind can only truly multitask when it comes to highly automatic behaviors like walking.… — Jocelyn K. Glei Habits Copy Share Image
“Survey data collected in 2008 suggested that adults collectively watched 9.8 billion hours of television over the course of a year. In… — Jocelyn K. Glei Adult life Copy Share Image
“Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize winner and microfinance pioneer, says, “All human beings are entrepreneurs. When we were in the caves, we… — Jocelyn K. Glei Business Copy Share Image
“every great leader must face his or her demons in order to overcome them. I’ve always known this, but I wasn’t aware… — Jocelyn K. Glei Big things Copy Share Image
“Creative minds are highly susceptible to distraction, and our newfound connectivity poses a powerful temptation for all of us to drift off… — Jocelyn K. Glei Creativity Copy Share Image
“Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration.” To make great ideas a reality, we must act, experiment, fail, adapt, and… — Jocelyn K. Glei Genius Copy Share Image
“I think we need that self-awareness. That we don’t have time because it’s convenient not to have the time, because maybe we… — Jocelyn K. Glei Awareness Copy Share Image
“For his book Willpower, psychologist Roy Baumeister analyzed findings from hundreds of experiments to determine why some people can retain focus for… — Jocelyn K. Glei Books Copy Share Image
“Like it or not, we are constantly forced to juggle tasks and battle unwanted distractions—to truly set ourselves apart, we must learn… — Jocelyn K. Glei Distractions Copy Share Image
“The strategy is simple, I think. The strategy is to have a practice, and what it means to have a practice is… — Jocelyn K. Glei Strategy Copy Share Image
“It’s time to stop blaming our surroundings and start taking responsibility. While no workplace is perfect, it turns out that our gravest… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“Limit your daily to-do list. A 3” × 3” Post-it is perfect—if you can’t fit everything on a list that size, how… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“people have a really bad habit of coming in and checking e-mail first thing in the morning. And for many people, the… — Jocelyn K. Glei Bad habit Copy Share Image
“Truly great creative achievements require hundreds, if not thousands, of hours of work, and we have to make time every single day… — Jocelyn K. Glei Creativity Copy Share Image
“The biggest problem we face today is “reactionary workflow.” We have started to live a life pecking away at the many inboxes… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“Another thing to understand is the notion of choice architecture, which means that the environment in which we make decisions tends to… — Jocelyn K. Glei Buffet Copy Share Image
“TIME TO OPTIMIZE We need to rethink our workflow from the ground up. Paradoxically, you hold both the problem and the solution… — Jocelyn K. Glei Optimize Copy Share Image
“Create windows of non-stimulation in your day. Make this time sacred and use it to focus on a separate list of two… — Jocelyn K. Glei Long term Copy Share Image
“Studies show that the human mind can only truly multitask when it comes to highly automatic behaviors like walking. For activities that… — Jocelyn K. Glei Habits Copy Share Image
“99U’s Manage Your Day-to-Day assembles insights around four key skill sets you must master to succeed: building a rock-solid daily routine, taming… — Jocelyn K. Glei Creative mind Copy Share Image
“Follow your passion” is bad advice. I reached this conclusion after spending a year researching a basic question: What makes people love… — Jocelyn K. Glei Bad advice Copy Share Image
“Through our constant connectivity to each other, we have become increasingly reactive to what comes to us rather than being proactive about… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
