Building Habits That Prioritize Time-Optimized Work


The Time-Optimized Newsletter

Helping move time from finite to infinite (issue 200)

Thank you for reading - this is issue number 200!

If you only read one sentence:

Time optimization isn’t about doing more — it’s about building habits that protect uninterrupted focus, because attention is the real productivity bottleneck.

This Week's Feature

Building Habits That Prioritize Time-Optimized Work

💥 You don’t need more time. You need fewer distractions.

📊 Part 3 of the 2025 TMA Report: Build Habits That Create Time-Optimized Work

Here’s the truth most leaders don’t want to admit:

Your people aren’t burned out because they’re lazy.

They’re burned out because they’re never allowed to focus.

Time optimizing isn’t about doing more. It’s about protecting the space to do what actually matters.

Read the full article 👉

Then go create the space that builds momentum.


This Week’s Action Step (2 minutes)

Choose one daily habit to test this week:

  • Block one 60–90 minute focus window on your calendar
  • Silence email, Slack, and notifications
  • Work on one meaningful task only
  • Stop when the block ends — even if you want to keep going

Consistency beats intensity. One protected block a day compounds fast.


Featured Free Resource

2025 TMA Year-End Report

The 2025 Time Management Analysis (TMA) Year-End Review reveals the hidden habits, patterns, and distractions behind lost productivity — and how small shifts can unlock major performance gains.


Recent Articles

Organized but Overwhelmed: The Paradox of the Modern Team

Teams are organized but overwhelmed.

📊 Part 2 of the 2025 Year-End TMA Report

You can have the cleanest calendar in the world… and still be completely unproductive.

Let that sink in.

The 2025 Time Management Analysis (TMA) data says teams are killing it at staying organized — 84% use calendars consistently — but only 33% avoid distractions and 46% avoid procrastination.

Are you managing time, or is time managing you?


Personal Care is the Weak Link in Corporate Performance

Part 1 of a 3-part series highlighting some of the key insights from the 2025 Year-End TMA report.

Personal care ranked dead last in all five categories — sleep, breaks, and exercise were the lowest-scoring attributes of the entire assessment.

This article breaks down the full TMA dataset on personal care — why scores are low, how it impacts performance, and what people can do today to improve sleep, breaks, and exercise with very little time investment.


Intentional Slowness Makes You Faster

🚨EVERYONE’S OBSESSED WITH SPEED.🚨

Work faster. Scale faster. Sell faster. Close faster.

But what if I told you the people winning long-term… 👉 actually SLOW DOWN?

Are you moving fast… or just moving a lot?

👇 Check it out.👇

"Intentional Slowness Makes You Faster"


Time Insight of the Week

Your habits decide how valuable your time becomes — not your workload.

Most people don’t lose time because they’re lazy or disorganized.
They lose it because their days are built around interruption instead of intention.

When you build habits that protect focus — even one block a day —
you don’t just get more done… you change how your brain experiences time itself.

Time optimization isn’t a productivity trick. It’s a daily discipline.


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