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Welcome to The Inbox. As you might have guessed, here at Asian Efficiency we read a lot of productivity and time management news and blog posts. This Inbox is a place for us to share our perspectives about that news and to let you know if it’s legitimate – or not.

Video of Tony Schwartz at the 99% Conference

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Below is a 31 minute video of Tony Schwartz, a productivity expert that we have a lot of respect for, when he was talking at the 99% conference. He talks a lot about the myths of time management and how employees, especially creative people, are mismanaging their lives. If you have read Tony’s book, The ...

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Late-Week Energy and Motivation

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Just a quick tip for how to get more energy and drive going on a Thursday or Friday: Go have lunch with a friend you like talking to.

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Friday Reviews

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It’s Friday! Time for my Friday Reviews. The end of the week is always a good time to do your reviews, and get things clear for upcoming week.

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The Flinch

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My friend Charles sent me The Flinch earlier this year. It’s a very short book published by Amazon/Seth Godin’s The Domino Project, and is about the phenomenon known as “the flinch”.

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Rework Lessons

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So we were supposed to publish the first part of our series on Sex and Motivation today in time for Valentine’s Day. Yes, we missed a deadline =) After asking some friends in person and on Twitter if they had any questions about sex and motivation, we discovered that the rabbit hole goes way, waaaaaaay deeper ...

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Don’t be a Donkey

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If you have never heard of Derek Sivers before, he is a successful entrepreneur that has a knack for goal setting and time management. He has a couple TED talks but that’s not the point of this post. This man really understands how goal setting and goal getting works.

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Commitment Devices

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I watched this TED talk over the weekend, and there were some really good points made in relation to productivity and managing how you spend your time (only the first 7 minutes or so of the talk).

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