Stuff that MattRs - #242

This Weeks Stuff: ✅ How to be great | ✅ How successful people timebox | ✅ Do you have a third place? | ✅ A guide to doing nothing | ✅ Root for your friends | ✅ The art of stillness | 🔗 Lazy Tetris

🔥 Key Stuff:  How to be great

It’s much simpler than you think to be successful (via Josh Spector)

• Greatness is something that you need to earn
• Fortunately, it is achievable through consistency

 📆 How successful people timebox

A reminder of the most effective productivity tool (via Nir Eyal)

• Find out how high performing people set up their calendar
• Then learn how you can do the same for maximum success. 

☕️  Do you have a third place? 

Psychologists believe having a place that isn’t work or home is important. 

• Find out what a third place can do for your leadership
• Here are some more ideas for ‘third places’. 

 🛌 A guide to doing nothing

Some great guidance on chilling out. (via Self Magazines Rest Week)

• We all need some rest
• Reframe how you view ‘me time’. 

👯  Root for your friends

Discover how the ‘Hypeman Flywheel’ can benefit EVERYONE involved. 

• Learn how to find the friends who root for you
• And uncover ways you can be a great friend for those around you

🧳  The art of stillness

Travel writer Pico Iyer explains a quest for calm. (Video via Ted)

• With stillness comes incredible insight.
• Iyer explains strategies for us all to find a few minutes or hours of each day for calm

Finally - Lazy Tetris, an idle update to the classic timewaster.

My Week Elsewhere

Some updates from the week, great media & music recommendations and some great listens from my ears to yours.