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    THE PRODUCTIVITY WORKFLOW FORMULA™ (PWF)
Determine + Schedule + Focus +
Process + Close + Manage = PRODUCE
    If you incorporate the PWF into your life, you really can save yourself ninety minutes a day that you can use to live your life, instead of working it away. This may sound odd if you feel shackled to your desk now, but it really
is
possible to get more done while doing less work. You just need to separate the valuable wheat from the nonproductive chaff.
    So let’s take a look at how you can become more efficient, step by logical step.
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    We’ve highlighted Productivity Pro tips with a clock icon. If you’re seriously pressed for time, skim these tips and read the summary at the end of each chapter.

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Schedule Time to Do It
    In the first step of the Productivity Workflow Formula, we worked on reducing your to-do lists. After you’ve eliminated time-wasting behaviors and determined exactly what you should do each day, the second step is finding the time to do it—literally—on your calendar. This will require you to structure your schedule very carefully to ensure maximum productivity. Among other things, schedule your tasks effectively, say no when appropriate, and control your meetings—whatever’s necessary to efficiently use your time.
    After all, time isn’t like money, office supplies, or Brussels sprouts. We’ve each got a very limited amount of it, and we’re not going to get any more. In fact, what we call time management isn’t “time” management at all. Since everyone has precisely the same amount of time (lacking that spiffy little device Hermione Granger used in the Harry Potter books to take more than one class at once), time management is better regarded as
self
-management. Your management of time is based largely on your willingness to stop
misusing
time—thereby eliminating those things hindering your productivity and protecting your time from those who want a piece of it.
    Let’s look at a few ways you can further tighten up your time-use habits by creating
new
behaviors to complete your important tasks.
ABOUT THAT 4-HOUR WORKWEEK IDEA
    Back in 2007, Timothy Ferriss created a sensation in the business world with his provocatively titled book
The 4-Hour Workweek
. In it, he outlined his philosophy, which I’ll paraphrase: Once you’ve worked hard to build your business, it’s possible to maintain it at a profitable level by working just a few hours per week.
    Ferriss believes the rules that bind us to the 9-to-5 grind are a pointless legacy of a time long past, because in the modern knowledge economy, what matters isn’t how many hours you work—it’s how well you perform. Furthermore, he asserts, it doesn’t matter how much money you make if you don’t have the time to enjoy it.
    Using his personal example, Ferriss outlines a method of ruthless time management using (among other things) the 80/20 principle, extreme outsourcing, and what he calls “cultivating selective ignorance”—that is,
not
trying to constantly keep up with every little thing at all times. Instead, he suggests, just catch up whenever it’s necessary to do so. This allows you to narrow your focus to the critical few items that really matter, so you can cut your workweek to a length that seems ridiculously short to many of us.
    All this seems to work for Tim Ferriss— but can it work for you? Is a 4-Hour Workweek
really
possible? The answer is … well, kinda.
    I’m with Ferriss on the basics. I’ve founded my entire business on teaching people how to cut out the extraneous and develop better time-management skills to boost