If you’re spending less than an hour a day on whatever’s most important to you, that’s something you can pretty easily take up to ninety or a hundred and twenty minutes and get more than fifty to a hundred percent more on results.

In this episode of Nat Chat, I’m joined by Sebastian Marshall. Sebastian and I delved into a lot about productivity, life and habit tracking, and developing really good systems for achieving your highest output. He’s been writing on his blog for eight years and runs a company now called Ultra Working, where he helps individuals and companies get the most out of their day-to-day systems.

Sebastian’s a great person to learn from for those wanting to optimize their systems for high output and productivity, and to become more disciplined with their habits.

We do get a bit in the weeds about time tracking in the beginning, so if that’s not as interesting to you feel free to skip ahead. There’s a TON here and we share a lot of interests, so we dove deep on the finer points of productivity.

We covered a ton, including:

• The huge advantages of tracking your life, habits, and work
• Hacking your productivity and achieving more in less time
• Developing high-output systems and outlining templates for those systems
• Getting started with pursuing projects that you’re interested in
• How Sebastian and I began hacking productivity and more
• Minimizing boredom and benefiting from failure

And much more. Please enjoy, and reach out to Sebastian on Twitter!

If you enjoyed this episode and our discussion on productivity and time management, be sure to check out my episode with Chris Sparks, where we discuss tons of great productivity advice and more. Also, if you want to hear more about using failure to grow, check out my episode with Matthew Barby, where we discuss this and more.

Find Sebastian online:

• Blog
• Ultra Working
• Twitter

Mentioned in the show:

• Ultra Working [1:34 ]
• Rescue Time [2:46 ]
• Lights Spreadsheet [4:59 ]
• Sebastian’s resources [9:17 ], [25:46 ], and [59:24 ]
• The Strategic Review [18:10 ]
• Getting Stuff Done Like a Boss [29:50 ]
• Things app for Mac [30:19 ]
• Growth Machine [45:02 ]
• Posttraumatic growth [56:15 ]
• Key Decision Analysis [59:51 ]
• Ivan Mazour’s website [1:02:02 ]
• M/M/1 Queuing Theory [1:02:35 ]
• Ambition Life Calendar [1:05:25 ]
• Give Get Win [1:09:28 ]

Books mentioned:

• Gateless [20:58 ]
• Sebastian’s books [29:20 ]
• The Power of Habit [39:29 ] (Nat’s Notes)
• The Willpower Instinct [39:30 ] (Nat’s Notes)
• Principles [56:35 ] (Nat’s Notes)

People mentioned:

• Peter Drucker [20:23 ] “What gets measured, gets managed.”
• Kai Zau [20:58 ]
• Tiago Forte [29:49 ]
• Justin Mares [44:15 ] (Nat Chat episode with Justin)
• Tasha Meys [50:23 ] (Nat Chat episode with Tasha)
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