Personal Productivity A one hundred year old productivity hack In 1918 Charles M. Schwab was the president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, a company he had built into the largest shipbuilder and the second-largest steel producer in America. As part of a perpetual quest to discover better ways to get things done, he invited the input of a productivity consultant named Ivy Lee. Lee had a simple recipe for achieving peak productivity: 1. At the end of each work day, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Do not write down more than six tasks. 2. Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance. 3. When you arrive tomorrow, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to the second task. 4. Approach the rest of your list in the same fashion. At the end of the day, move any unfinished items to a new list of six tasks for the following day. 5. Repeat this process every working day. There’s a great story about how well it worked in this article. Article: The Ivy Lee Method: The Daily Routine Experts Recommend for Peak Productivity