How do some entrepreneurial leaders get more done in a day than the rest of us?
Here are four simple strategies, used by the world's most successful people, that will increase your productivity and save you an hour — or more — each day:
1. Reduce decision fatigue
Decisions are costly.
Making an unnecessary decision not only wastes time while you're doing it, it also saps mental energy for later, which means the next decision you have to make will take even longer.
Save your decision-making power for things that actually matter by reducing the need to make decisions on mundane tasks you repeat everyday. The more things you can put on autopilot, the more efficient you will be throughout the day.
President Obama wears the same color suit all the time because he doesn't want to waste a decision on thinking about what he should put on each day. Steve Jobs was another famous example of a leader who wore the same thing everyday, as is Mark Zuckerberg.
But wearing a uniform is not the only way...
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