---
created: 2025-10-31T00:00:00
category:
  - "[[YouTube]]"
  - "[[Productivity]]"
title: Give me 12 minutes of your life and I'll give you 30 years of productivity advice
source: YouTube
channel: "[[Daniel Pink]]"
url: https://youtu.be/MN_LkumE3Ig?si=eCAHl7vp4284qj1d
tags:
  - area
---
Taken from rocket book scan: [[RB 2025-11-03 08.55.13.pdf]]

1. Do less ruthlessly
	- Only have 5 things on your daily to-do list. Make one your MIT (most important task) and make sure you complete this first. Don't do anything else until it's done
	- Make a to don't list (3 things) things that steal your time, draw energy, steal focus
	- Make 'NO' your default answer
2. Protect your peak hours
	- Use for your hardest tasks, usually in the morning
	- Time Box, give each task a time windows
3. Systematise the small stuff
	- automate, automate, automate.
4. Track your progress
	- end of the day list 3 ways you made progress.
5. Treat breaks as performance fuel
	- Take regular breaks
	- Something beats nothing
	- Moving beats stationary
	- Outside beats inside
	- Fully detached beats semi-detached
6. Consistency instead of intensity, habits instead of heroics
	- Intensity exhausts
	- Consistency compounds