Multitasking is something only the lucky few and women are blessed with.

For the rest of us, if you want to be productive the biggest challenge in this over stimulated world, is to create free space in your head. I’m always looking for new ways to minimize the input I get, save my brainpower for solving real problems.

Here are some tricks I use :

My phone is on silent mode (also doesn’t vibrate), always. If I miss a call I just call them back. What with the extremely urgent calls, that needed to be answered right this minute? Turns out I’m not really that important as I didn’t get any of these in the years I’m doing this.

I always wear the same outfit for all occasions. I have one pair of shoes, one jacket and 4 trousers. I have a bunch of T-shirts from projects I worked on over the years but I always take the one on top.

When I go for drinks I’ll always order water, in the morning I always have the same breakfast.

In work mode there will be one track/album on repeat, and I only add 2 albums a year to my library. In my library now is some Taylor Swift, Sigur Ros, Haim, Bethel music, Kayne and some others. If I need to go into beast mode I put on this Coone mega mix.

On Instagram, Twitter and Facebook I follow as few people as possible. I use the following rule: if I wouldn’t pick up the phone to ask what’s up, I probably don’t follow you. In an attempt to limit it to my real life friends and people that inspire me. It successfully helps me to avoid the endless scroll.

I use a to-do list (the native reminders app on iPhone) and my (Google) calendar pretty strict. This way I avoid ideas or a task I shouldn’t forget to be burning memory in the back of my head all day.

Let me know which tricks you use!

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