Want to Be the Next Bezos? Stop What You’re Doing and Do This Instead:

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

— William Penn

Most people on the journey to success assume you need to be constantly working to get there.

That every day, you need to accomplish more than you did the day before.

That time spent not working toward your goals is time wasted.

It’s a dangerous fallacy — entirely counterintuitive to everything you are trying to accomplish.

Today, people are more obsessed with being busy than with being productive.

We go around bragging about how much we have on our plate and how little time we have to allocate to anything else besides work. And we do so to give people the illusion of success — we want others to look at us and think, “Wow, that person really has it going on. Do you see how busy they are?”

When you overload yourself with work, overpopulate your daily ‘to-do’ list and commit to too many goals at once, you’re doing more to prevent success than you are to reach it.

Even if you’re an organized, ‘productive’ person who can work all day every day with little…