Super progress times to build into the rest of your life

Elon Musk reads 4 hours a day...

While you probably will not reach that level, you can do "focused learning" or "focused productivity".

All you need to do is either group together activities of a similar nature or, better yet, set up long blocks of productivity time - far beyond the standard hour to two hour blocks.

Take entire days to focus on just one thing, not allowing any (none, nada!) distractions or diversions (other than required physical maintenance).  Block out the specific days in your calendar, clearly labelled in capital letters.

The reason, as pointed out in The Invisible Problem Wrecking Your Productivity And How To Stop It, is that switching context (the type of thing that you are doing) requires "an average of 25 minutes to resume a task after being interrupted".

The way I applied this principle has to do with my frustration at making little progress in a couple of key projects.  For instance, I scheduled two hours a day to do the "write my current book" project, but I kept allowing it to be interrupted and felt a sense of making too little progress.  Also, there was a bit of mind chatter that I had to catch and rephrase to something more realistic (such as acknowledging that this was only an artificial expectation that I optionally created and that my life continues to be a miracle with a mountain of haves").

Also, I kept on wanting to do, again, a major refinement in my time management system plus write it up so that other people could benefit from it in a simple, implementable, easily usable way.  I could wait for doing this project after my big book project, but I decided instead to schedule a whole two days (but allowing for the possibility of a third day) in a row to just focus on this one project and finishing it (not leaving it in the middle, as is so easy to do but massively unproductive).

And I switched to having several two day full focus time blocks for writing, so that I wouldn't have to shift back and forth to it and have to reacclimate and recall where I was (which took alot of time while also causing a loss of some of the thinking and a huge loss of momentum).

One thing that made it easier for me to make progress is that I labelled and committed that time so clearly and defined what I would not do (i.e. I would allow zero diversions!).  The other thing that made it easier is that my momentum carried me along with less effort (and no "restarting" times). Oh, and there was a motivational factor, as I could see, really clearly, that I was actually making progress (that I didn't have to wait a long time to arrive at!).

Now, go figure out how you can set up your own large, uninterrupted blocks of time (such as all day until 6 on Saturdays for "life learning" reading, studying and implementation).  (See Sufficient Momentum In The Life Improvement Process.)

It will make a huge difference in your progress in major goals and development!

Do this as a major strategy for the rest of your life - it'll make a huge difference.

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A useful "substrategy", somewhat along similar lines of thinking, is to stop reading on different subjects and to focus on reading only on one subject at a time.  Your brain will tend to automatically put more and more together into an ordered whole that is more functional and you will be able to achieve a competency level much more quickly.  After all, other than fiction reading, the purpose of all reading is to produce a desired result that actually shows up in concrete terms in reality.

In fact, it is generally a good idea to accumulate books and/or articles on subjects of interest such that you can visit the subject in a concentrated block of time later.  Your primitive mind will be soothed by knowing that you have a plan that is effective for learning and closing the gap of concern ("I'm not good enough at  _______").  And you'll have freed up the time to focus on your current topic of learning.  (See Effective Learning, which is a practice that will enhance your life considerably!)

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Becoming quite highly competent at time management and productivity management is imperative and a necessary required step in assuring a happy, effective life success.  Read the "whys" and implement the steps by reading my (almost costless) Kindle book (which can be read on any computer).  To link to a current version of the book go to the Books, Booklets, Special Summaries page and link to a title that includes "life value" productivity in it.

Schedule a full two days to focus on reading it and doing the initial implementation. (If you can't make the days consecutive, then go ahead and schedule it as two one-day focus blocks.  You might use two Saturdays in a row.)