Less is more

Less is more.
A study from Nature revealed that only 1 in 60 people would choose to remove a Lego brick to improve a structure, instead of adding one, instead of adding one (a highly recommended podcast, by the way!). In fact, people are more likely to add 9 extra bricks rather than take away just one.

Here are my productivity tips based on minimalism:
– Minimalism in your emails: Search for "Unsubscribe" in your email inbox and unsubscribe from any newsletters you don't read. Send each and every one of your inbox messages to the archive. Then, when a new mail arrives, archive it just when you have finished. This way, you won't be staring at your messages, overwhelmed.
– Minimalism in your calendar: Visit your calendar and remove one unnecessary notification from each recurring event.
– Minimalism in your to-do list: Go to your to-do list and eliminate one unnecessary reminder from every recurring task. Also, set up a monthly alert to clean it out.
– Minimalism on your desktop: Delete any shortcuts you don't use.
– Minimalism in your browser tabs: Close any tabs you don't need. If necessary, group them by right-clicking.
– Minimalism on your phone: Activate Do Not Disturb mode to silence unnecessary notifications.
– Minimalism in your apps: Uninstall any app you don't use.
– Minimalism in WhatsApp: Avoid joining or even leave irrelevant WhatsApp groups.
Learn to say no. Decline invitations to events, free but irrelevant webinars, and unnecessary meetings. Saying no is the ultimate productivity hack. Aim to under-commit and over-deliver.
– Embrace essentialism. Incidentally, I listened to "Essentialism" as an audiobook while on the move to avoid over-committing to new projects.

Have a productive day!