ROBERT GREENE

Instead of immediately focusing on email, meetings, and other activities, we would be better off spending the morning doing productive work that requires a higher cognitive capacity (thinking, planning, calculating, for example), and delaying the tasks that don’t require as much mental ene...

If you are thinking of spending some time alone, it is important to do so in ways that are beneficial to your mental well-being.

• Pick a time: Figure out when you'd like to spend some time alone. 
• Turn of social media: Work on l...

• The ending is everything. Plan all the way to it, taking into account all the possible consequences, obstacles, and twists of fortune that might reverse your hard work and give the glory to others.
• Never begin anything until you have reflected what will be the end of it.
• Plan...