Achieve More by Doing Less: 5 Ways to Work Smarter

Subtraction, not addition.

In this post, I’ll share 5 ways to achieve more by doing less.

Weird, right?

Here’s the truth:

Life does a good job of teaching us that to achieve more, you should do more. You should “hustle more” and “work harder”.

And so our days become one long battle of trying to complete endless to-do lists.

But the secret to ramping up your productivity isn’t addition, it’s subtraction.

When you reframe your work this way, you focus on trying to work smarter, rather than harder.

You stop doing tasks that make you feel busy but don’t deliver results.

And this leaves you with enough time for what matters.

Here are 5 ways to achieve more by doing less.

#1 Prioritize Your Tasks

To achieve more by doing less, you need to focus on what truly matters.

The 80/20 rule (aka The Pareto Principle) tells us that “80% of the results come from 20% of the actions”: