Hey friends, I know I am a day late but we will have to make do. This week I would like to share 3 quotes that are thought-provoking, useful and they may even change your life. "We are, each of us, a product of the stories we tell ourselves"          -Happy,

Hey friends, Since many of you are probably students and most likely third years and the mocks are coming up I decided I would keep with the study theme as it is what I imagine should be most helpful to you. The Cornell Note-Taking method is a lot more reliable

Hey friends, I have been going through these newsletter editions and I noticed that I have not written much content direcrly related to studying and I consider myself somewhat knowledgeable on the topic. I believe most of my subscribers are students and since the pres are coming up I thought

Hey friends, Since I have been procrastinating A LOT on doing my Christmas homework. And by that I mean leaving it until the day before I go back to school (more on that in the Favourites section). I have decided to make a reference point to all of my content

Hey friends, This week I want to give you an excerpt from the Book "The Courage to be Disliked" about Seperating tasks. I found it very insightful. This week I was reading a book and I came across an excellent insight about how we should separate our tasks I’ll

Hey friends, This week I have decided that instead of doing a traditional newsletter I would leave links to 3 of my favourite newsletters to ease me back into the swing of things. Here it goes: 1. The Parable of the Pottery Class 2. The Curse of Knowledge 3. Batching

Hey friends, I haven’t done one of these newsletters in a while but hopefully I should be back in the swing of things now as I have had a break that has been far too long for my own good. Introduction Today I want to talk about a productivity

Hey friends, This week I want to talk about procrastination for what I believe is the third issue where I have spoken about the topic. The reason being is because you may or may not know but I have a problem with procrastination so in an endeavour to fix that

Hey friends, You may have noticed that I mentioned something called The Odyssey Plan in last week's newsletter. It is a simple framework for planning your future created by some guy called Bill Burnett who works at Stanford and it is built into the course at Stanford Business school. Everyone

Hey friends, This week I would like to talk to you about the Ideal Ordinary week which is a strategy to help you realise what to do with your life (I think). You log onto your calendar and go 5 years in the future (I find that's just far enough

Hey friends, Hundreds of articles and 10s of videos about productivity later I think I have discovered the ultimate hack to become more productive. It's from a book called "Make Time" by Jake Knapp and John Zeretski although I can be very sure I spelt that last name wrong. It's

Hey friends, Sorry about being late but I had a lot going on yesterday and I am not perfect. This week I had a music exam and as soon as it ended and even during it I was thinking about everything that went wrong and what I could have done

Hey friends, I would like to talk about something called The Curse of Knowledge. This week I was doing tech support with a relative who had a query about something on his phone. What I was showing him seemed to resonate and help him however all the while I was

Hey friends, Recently I came across this story which I thought was very useful to get over perfectionism maybe you will too. There are many iterations to this story so if you google it you will find a few different examples but they are about 90% the same. It is

Hey friends, This week I want to talk about pride. Did people ever tell you they were proud of you when you achieved something or did they say "You should be very proud of yourself" Most of us probably have and May I say that it doesn't really feel right

Hey friends, So I think I am a somewhat organised guy that's fairly productive can reach inbox zero bla bla bla. But recently my desk is a mess my inbox is clogged up and I always seem to be behind. I have realised that I have been overthinking thing way

Hey friends, This week it's late and I'm super lazy really sorry still not very good at this newsletter thing lol so instead of giving you something actually useful I will just ask you to follow my socials: ​Instagram [https://app.convertkit.com/campaigns/8300903/instagram.com/conor_nee]​ ​Twitter

Hey friends, This week I would like to share an article I wrote about the joys of active recall and why it is the best study technique out there. I hope you enjoy it. You can read it here [https://www.conornee.com/active-recall/#spitzer-1939]. Have a great week! Conor

Hey friends, This week I want to talk about something I heard from Jordan Peterson this week that really got me. "If you want to know something about yourself sit on your bed and say What's one thing I'm doing wrong that I know I'm doing wrong that I could

Hey friends, This week I want to tell you about a productivity tip called batching. The basics are that if you have tasks to do that are similar do them all at once. An example of how this tip can help you be productive is email. We are always in

Hey friends, I want to tell you about the idea of Productive Procrastination, you may be wondering how you can productively procrastinate as these are too opposites. The trick is to do something that is useful and that you would enjoy doing during your procrastination time. So if for instance,

Hey friends, As the lazy slut I am I cba to write something genuine so instead, I have curated 3 of my favourite newsletters for you to enjoy (not in order)😉 1. ​The Man in The Arena [https://www.conornee.com/newsletter/the-man-in-the-arena/]​ 2. ​The Top of my To-Do List

Hey friends, This week I want to tell you about an excellent Ted Talk from Tim Urban called " Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arj7oStGLkU]". It solidified so many of my and everyones experience of procrastination. I won't summarise it because it would

Hey friends, This week I would like to touch on a quote from Mark Twain “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, most of which have never happened”. When I heard this it resognated with me because when you take a moment to think about

Hey friends, This week I'm just taking the chance to reflect on the week of exams that's just finished. Exam Season is one of my most favourite times of the year. I think I prepared reasonably well and didn't do too bad but all will tell. Have a great week!

Hey friends, We are now on holiday for the Mid-Term Break. It seems like only  yesterday it was the first day in second year. I guess it's kind of nice to have a week to get some relaxation and study done after 7 weeks of school. Well I'm off for

Hey friends, In this weeks newsletter we will talk about the Pareto Principle. The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the “vital few”). Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or

Hey friends, I've talked about the 2 minute productivity rule [https://www.conornee.com/newsletter/the-2-minute-productivity-rule/] on this newsletter before but today I want to talk about the 5 minute rule. The 5 minute rule is if you are going to do a task you don't want to do convince

Hey friends, If you are unfamiliar with m [http://conornee.com]y website [https://conornee.com] (go check it out) I have an article about dealing with "bad" exam results [https://www.conornee.com/dealing-with-bad-results/] and yesterday I recieved a test result and I was getting upset but then I

Hey friends, I would like to bring an article about luck by Seth Godin. To quote him... > Advice from people who have gotten lucky is a tricky thing. > Perhaps they did x, y and z, and then got lucky. As story telling creatures, it’s natural to assume that x,

Hey friends, Very sorry I've been slacking on this newsletter front. To make up for it I will send out an email today and tomorrow. I want to talk about a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt called "The Man in The Arena" it recites: > "It is not the critic who

Hey friends, Last week I skipped a week of this newsletter and very interestingly no one noticed so I realised that it's okay to skip a week every once in a while to take a break. Besides I did say it may not be a weekly thing but I think

Hey friends, This week we are going to talk about a personal finance topic (for you Gearoid) called PYF (Pay Yourself First). The idea is that whenever we get money coming in (eg: salary), we immediately put aside a percentage (eg: 10-20%) for our savings / investments. Only when we've done

Hey friends, Sorry for being late I know but I did mention that I won't have perfect punctuation every week. Just thought I would share a blog post from Seth Godin > There are countless arguments about words that we often don’t understand the way someone else might. > Words like

Hey friends, This week was quite busy. I was doing a lot of travelling and going to different places and there were certain things that needed to be done but were put off. In the past I would have been tempted to tell myself that “I didn’t have time”

Hey friends, There's a simple concept in productivity I came across a while back called the 2 minute rule. If a task will take less than 2 minutes I'll do it now and if it takes longer I'll write it down. I think about this many times each day when

Hey friends, I am aware that you may not have got last weeks issue because of an error on my part so I will link it here [https://www.conornee.com/newsletter/separating-tasks/]. This week I stumbled across a fantastic, very short blog post from Paul Graham called The Top

Hey friends, We were on our way to holidays yesterday and were a bit busy so I’m a day late Soz. This week I was reading a book and I came across an excellent insight about how we should separate our tasks I’ll give an example from the

Hey friends, It's fairly late and I'm struggling to come up with ideas so this might not be a great one but I hope you don't mind. Today I want to talk to you about a Derek Sivers blog post [https://sive.rs/obvious] where he talks about that when

Hey friends, So say you're about to do one of those boring, monotonous tasks that you really don't want to do but you know you have to do it. Say you have to clean your room for example and your like uh why do I have to do this. But

Hey , Yesterday I got my summer exam results and was trying to reason why this or that aspect of the results were the way they were until I was thinking oh this must of been because I did this or that or uh I should of done that until I

Hey friends, I know I'm a day late with this one I had forgotten about it until I was in bed late last night. This week I want to talk to you about a lesson I learned from a Book called Happy (by Derren Brown). Before I explain it I

Hey friends, Exams are over, school is out and holidays are here hoorah. Honestly though I am very happy that it is all over because it has been very stressful with going from online learning, back to school and then home again due to Covid. Hopefully Summer will be good

Hey Friends, As you might know, I’m a big fan of productivity, consistency and discipline. Often however, I find myself in a place where I can’t fully enjoy myself because I have a certain guilt hanging over me that I should be doing something ‘productive’ instead. I call

Hey Friends, I would like to talk to you today about possibility you see until recently I kind of thought that Covid-19 is the sort of thing that is “just on the TV” or that oh I “can’t” get it and “won’t” get it. You may have noticed

Hey Friends, Since I read this book [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Atomic-Habits-Proven-Build-Break/dp/1847941834/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Atomic%20Habits&qid=1620511996&sr=8-1&utm_campaign=Saturday%20Spoonful&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter] I’ve been thinking a lot about systems vs goals mindset.

Hey friends, Recently I discovered something called Morning Pages so firstly What is Morning Pages? Here's what Julia Cameron [https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/], author of The Artist's Way has to say: > Morning Pages are three pages of longhand, stream of consciousness writing, done first thing in the morning. There

Hey friends, Recently I have noticed that I was trying to be a bit of a perfectionist when it came to my website [https://www.conornee.com/] with getting the layout right and putting in the custom code and so on but I realised that a lot of the stuff