5 Universal No Tech Principles You Can’t Live Without For Maximum Productivity

You use productivity tools; they don’t use you.

That’s the problem with software. It’s the next thing to scratch your productivity hack itch. But productivity doesn’t happen in a software stack. Instead, it happens when you focus relentlessly on your priorities.

I’ve been sucked into the software rabbit hole more times than I want to admit.

But I always come back to these universal principles to make progress on my most important priorities:

Your North Star

Gary Keller preaches, “doing the most important thing is always the most important thing” in his book, The One Thing.

Sure, you’ll have a few things that are top priority and matter more than the rest, but “one will matter the most.”

It all starts with a focusing question:

“What’s the ONE Thing I can do / such that by doing it / everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

Once you have the answer, you know what’s most important.

In business, it’s the same idea.