⚡ Productivity

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• 🐣 Overcoming Mental Blocks with A Beginner's Mind

  Previously, we've covered a lot of wonderful concepts like time blocking, habit stacking, and The Pareto Principle that can help boost our productivity and efficiency📈. Today, let's introduce a new concept🆕. Have you ever been working on an assignment or tackling a project, when suddenly you

• ⌚ Change Your Day in 5 Minutes - Part 2

  Happy Sunday! ✌🏽 Last week during rounds, we introduced the 5-Minute Rule for identifying which task in a to-do list will take about 5 minutes to complete📃. We discussed how the 5-minute rule can be a handy tool in our toolbox for not only getting one thing done, but potentially others

• ⌚ Change Your Day in 5 Minutes - Part 1

  Happy Sunday! 😎 Do you have 5 minutes to spare?⏳ I'm hoping the answer is yes, because this week for Sunday Morning Rounds we'll be talking about a quick tool to evaluate tasks that can entirely change the way we complete them🪛. When we have a list

• 📈 Leveling Up Efficiency with The Pareto Principle

  Happy Sunday! This week during rounds, let's talk about an idea that can elevate our productivity to a whole new level😲. Since this is the first newsletter of July, that means we're now more than halfway through 2024, which is ridiculous📆. But that also makes it

• 🔠 A Mnemonic to Elevate Your Productivity

  This week during rounds, I want to share a mnemonic📖. As we've alluded to for the past several weeks, these summer months are a very transformative time for many in medicine☀️. New interns are starting residency🩺. Some medical students are starting audition rotations on their road to residency�

• 📝 A New Kind of Productivity List

  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again…I love lists💚. There’s something about writing out tasks in my favorite planner and checking them off one-by-one that makes me feel like I'm winning the day🥇. Recently I was reading Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver

• 🌞 A Better Day with Time Blocking

  This week during Sunday Morning Rounds, I have an assignment for you📝. I want you to think about a project you've been wanting to start but have been putting off for a while🤔. Perhaps it's reading that book that's been sitting on your coffee

• 🏗️ Building Productivity with Habit Stacking

  This week during rounds, I want to discuss a powerful hack that can help us be more productive and create healthier habits🍎. I recently did a quarterly review of goals I set at the beginning of the year📝 and it got me thinking about how difficult it can be to

• 🌄 What Japan Teaches Us About Efficiency

  Greetings from Japan! I am currently in Tokyo as part of a 10-day trip exploring Japan. This is my first time visiting, so my days here have been filled with wonder and excitement🤩. One thing I've realized walking through the streets of Tokyo and learning about the culture

• 🧱 Enhance Your Life with Habit Stacking

  Happy Sunday! This week for Sunday Morning Rounds, I want you to think about your habits🤔. Since it's still early into 2024, is there a new habit you included in your New Year's resolutions?🎆 Reading more📙? Getting more exercise💪🏻? Reconnecting with an old friend🫂? As noble

• 📸 How to Capture Every Moment of Inspiration

  Happy Sunday! Today during rounds, I'd like to make a bet with you🃏. I'll bet that in the past week, you've had a good idea or thought pop into your head that you really wanted to remember. But a few days or even a

• 🤔 Conquering Your Problems with 5 Whys

  Have you ever had a problem you couldn't solve❓ I'm not talking about a schooltime math problem (we've all had those➗), but rather a real-world problem with real-world consequences. This can be incredibly frustrating.😡 You've identified the problem blocking your path and

• 📊 Maximizing Productivity with Diminishing Returns

  I am writing this edition of Sunday Morning Rounds on a flight from Phoenix to South Florida as I go to visit my family for the holidays✈️. This flight is 4+ hours! Usually, I use this time to relax, listen to podcasts, or binge Netflix🍿. This time though, I decided

• 🗃️ Prioritizing Tasks with the Eisenhower Matrix

  We all have things to do. Whether you're in medical school🧑🏻‍🎓, residency🧑🏽‍⚕️, or heck even retired😎, we all have things we want (and need) to get done. It's no secret that I like creating lists, and I like to organize the tasks I have around my

• 🥇 Conquer Your Day by Completing One Task

  I love a good list📃. Whether I am seeing patients in the hospital or organizing things to do for Med School Moose, a list is a must for keeping me organized and on track🛤️. But lists aren't without their faults, especially when tasks start to pile up and

• 👀 Healthier Screen Time with 20/20/20

  I'm always looking for ways to optimize little things in my life📈. I'm a big believer that positive habits and behaviors can be built from small, incremental changes✅. Since I spend a lot of time staring at my computer (studying, creating YouTube videos, working on this

• 🎧 YouTube Videos for Productivity & Focus

  Whenever I am studying for exams or working at home, one of the first things I do is pull up YouTube. Before I get sucked into my usual rabbit hole of videos😅, I'll go to my focus playlist to help me get in a productivity mindset. Sometimes it&