You know, success in an Amazon business is all about time.
- The time we spend on the business.
- The way we spend our time on the business.
- What we choose to do with our Amazon business time.
Every way we use time can have a big impact on our bottom line.
Quotes Of The Week
“It doesn’t take much to seem superhuman and appear ‘successful’ to nearly everyone around you.”
“And when — despite your best efforts — you feel like you’re losing at the game of life, remember: Even the best of the best feel this way sometimes.”
“What you do is more important than how you do everything else, and doing something well does not make it important.” – Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss Productivity Hacks
By now, you know I’m a huge fan of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Work Week. All these quotes come from one of his older blog posts (2013). There are some great lessons in the post about the truth of being an entrepreneur (very authentic). But the best part is his section on productivity hacks.
Short summary: “Write down the 3-5 things — and no more — that are making you most anxious or uncomfortable (bolding added). They’re often things that have been punted from one day’s to-do list to the next, to the next, to the one…”
I’ve benefited from following this advice to tackle whatever is making me anxious and just get it done. Relief! Actually ends up being a timesaver.
Bionic Reading
I’m a very slow reader. There’s something about it that just takes me too much time. I am excited about this new concept of Bionic Reading. It was created by a Swiss developer named Renato Casuut. His idea was to make reading comprehension easier by designing a font that bolds the first characters of significant words.
Here’s a quote from the website Bionic Reading that explains how it works. You can see a sample of the font at the top of that web page.
“The idea is your eyes focus on the bolded part of the word and your brain completes the rest. Your brain can read faster than your eyes (bolding added), so by essentially reducing the number of letters your eye needs to look at, you can read faster while still retaining the full context.” (This second link takes you to a Review Geek review of Bionic Reading where you can get more details.
I’m excited to try it and it looks like there is a Chrome Extension, and an app to use on iPhone, Android, Kindle, and other readers. When I read something in Bionic Reading font, it does feel like it helps my brain comprehend faster without having to read every letter of every word. Saves time.
Fasting
I just did a two-day fast. I’m not giving medical advice here, but so far I feel like fasting is good for me. I do a fast whenever my diet’s gotten out of control. You know, when I’m craving too many carbs, eating too many sugary things and bad (known to be unhealthy) foods, or eating too much food and doing mindless eating, it’s time for a reset. I use fasting for that reset.
What I love best is that fasting turns on your fat-burning ability. When you run out of blood sugar (glucose), your body switches to burning ketones. I like to do a 2-3 day fast when I feel like my weight has spiked. It seems to burn out all the excess fat and “bad stuff”.
“Ketosis is a process that happens when your body doesn’t have enough carbohydrates to burn for energy. Instead, it burns fat and makes things called ketones, which it can use for fuel.” – WebMD, What Is Ketosis
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