The Only Way to Get Important Things Done

The Only Way to Get Important Things Done - Tony Schwartz - Harvard Business Review: Most everyone feels pulled in more directions than ever, expected to work longer hours, and asked to get more done, often with fewer resources. But there are other people who are getting things done, including the important stuff, and somehow still managing to have a life. What have they figured out that the rest of their colleagues have not?

The answer, surprisingly, is not that they have more will or discipline than you do. The counterintuitive secret to getting things done is to make them more automatic, so they require less energy.