#NDL

Listen-Only Mode 🎧

Sharing some advice this week that Mark Cuban received at age 22, which changed his career trajectory forever. He got direct feedback...

Track Your Lost Time

How do you end your typical workday? For most professionals it's a combination of clearing out the last few emails, knocking out final to...

Unlearning 🎓

Learning is the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or being taught. It’s something we all strive to spend more...

Solve Harder Problems

There is an Elon Musk quote that I can't stop thinking about and it is at the center of what Not Doing List is all about. Check it out....

“Distract Me” Time

I listened to a great new book this week by Cal Newport called Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World. It builds on...

Rule of 10: Switching from "Yes" to "No"

I’ve been presenting the concepts from Not Doing List to a few audiences in advance of the book launching this spring. Last week, someone...

Find Time for Your 2021 Resolutions

We are about to turn the page into next year. That is a signal for most people to get busy listing out resolutions. However, according to...

Reward the Five "No" Behaviors

My book NOT DOING LIST helps leaders focus and use their #168hours more productively. This blog post is about rewarding the #NDL...

Hey Siri, remind me to NOT

In Not Doing List, I show readers how to get harder, more important work done by starting each week with a list of what you will delete,...

No Agenda, No Meeting

Learn about 3 questions you should ask before agreeing to any meeting.