Secrets of Productive People: 50 Techniques To Get Things Done: Teach Yourself

The effectiveness of a person should be judged not by how many projects they are working on, but by how many projects they have brought to fruition.

Taking on too much is a very good way of ensuring that you are not going to be effective.

Not being able to rely on yourself is a very stressful and handicapping state to be in.

People dislike working with people they perceive as being unreliable, and unfortunately it doesn’t take much to persuade other people of the fact that you are unreliable.

lack of consistency means that you are constantly moving from one thing to another without ever carrying anything through properly.

There may be occasions on which they produce good work because a burst of enthusiasm has given them enough forward impetus, but this quickly dies out and their lives are full of half-finished projects.

As I said in the previous chapter on the subject of exercise, the first rule of productivity is to question, the second to establish good processes. How might we do this in the context of dieting?

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker

For many people who already consider themselves very creative, there may be more scope for raising their productivity by improving their efficiency than by trying to raise their creativity yet further.

Productivity = Creativity × Efficiency.