Ryan Deiss argues that doing less actually increases productivity. He shares three tactics: treating a nine-month sabbatical as a tax write-off, leaving at 5:30 to sharpen focus during work hours, and limiting your team to three projects per quarter to prioritize what matters.
Nine-month sabbatical.
5:30 (PM).
Three projects.
Here's how you get your nine month sabbatical as a tax write off one one picture post Instagram. Oh yeah. What's the weirdest thing that helped you scale? Yeah, paradoxically, it was working less. It was doing less. I mean, when I forced myself to leave at 5:30, I actually got more work done between 9 and 5:30 because I knew that I was going to have to leave. Similarly, when I forced my team to pick three projects to implement over a 90 day period instead of the 30 that we would try to do before, we picked higher impact projects and we actually got those things done. So in working less, in committing to less, we actually got more done. Sometimes the best way to speed up is actually to slow down.
