10 Tips from "Stress-Free Productivity" by @DrAliceBoyes: 
1/ You Don't Need to Be Productive Every Day
"The first and most important point to make regarding productivity is that you should never feel pressured to be at peak production every day."
"The first and most important point to make regarding productivity is that you should never feel pressured to be at peak production every day."
2/ Define Your Core Mission
"Identifying your driving force matters. Here's what the research tells us. People who succeed at self-control set goals that feel authentic to them."
"Identifying your driving force matters. Here's what the research tells us. People who succeed at self-control set goals that feel authentic to them."
3/ Change Your Routine
"Here's a curious paradox for people who rely on strict daily routines to stay on track. Changing your routines makes you more creative."
"Here's a curious paradox for people who rely on strict daily routines to stay on track. Changing your routines makes you more creative."
4/ Take A Mental Health Day
"Everyone should take some mental health days off of work to recover emotionally from stress...As writer Anne Lamott says, "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."
"Everyone should take some mental health days off of work to recover emotionally from stress...As writer Anne Lamott says, "Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."
5/ Don't Overfocus On One Metric
"People can become too driven by a metric. They lose sight of how the metric is an imperfect proxy for their broader, more meaningful goals. People start behaving in ways that will improve their metrics and not their goal."
"People can become too driven by a metric. They lose sight of how the metric is an imperfect proxy for their broader, more meaningful goals. People start behaving in ways that will improve their metrics and not their goal."
6/ Take More Walks
"Walking, and especially walking in nature, have been shown to boost creativity. At the extreme end, four days of backpacking improved scores on a creativity test by a whopping 50 percent."
"Walking, and especially walking in nature, have been shown to boost creativity. At the extreme end, four days of backpacking improved scores on a creativity test by a whopping 50 percent."
7/ What You Work On > How Fast You Work
"What you do will have a far greater impact on your productivity than how fast you work. The direction you are rowing will determine where you will end up more than how frenetically you paddle."
"What you do will have a far greater impact on your productivity than how fast you work. The direction you are rowing will determine where you will end up more than how frenetically you paddle."
8/ Take More Breaks
"You may need more or longer breaks than you think you should need based on your image of how a productive person acts. If you label all these needed breaks as procrastination, it'll lead to self-criticism."
"You may need more or longer breaks than you think you should need based on your image of how a productive person acts. If you label all these needed breaks as procrastination, it'll lead to self-criticism."
9/ Set Realistic Productivity Goals
"What you label as procrastination might be your overestimating how long it's possible for you to focus intensely in a day. Your 'procrastination' problem might actually be having unrealistic expectations of yourself."
"What you label as procrastination might be your overestimating how long it's possible for you to focus intensely in a day. Your 'procrastination' problem might actually be having unrealistic expectations of yourself."
10/ Build Productivity Momentum With Easy Tasks
"Do some easy aspects and let momentum propel you. If you're doing big, complex projects, this can be easier. Usually there are lots of simple to-dos within a big, complex task."
"Do some easy aspects and let momentum propel you. If you're doing big, complex projects, this can be easier. Usually there are lots of simple to-dos within a big, complex task."
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Key Lessons from "Stress-Free Productivity":
1. Take more walks
2. Take more breaks
3. Change your routine
4. Take a mental health day
5. Don't overfocus on one metric
6. Build productivity momentum by doing easy tasks
7. What you work on is more important than how fast you work
1. Take more walks
2. Take more breaks
3. Change your routine
4. Take a mental health day
5. Don't overfocus on one metric
6. Build productivity momentum by doing easy tasks
7. What you work on is more important than how fast you work
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