Haiku Productivity: The Power of Limits for Increasing Focus

Haiku Productivity: The Power of Limits for Increasing Focus
An elegant verse. A disciplined life also. Beauty through constraint. Aman Patel1/Shutterstock
Leo Babauta
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A decade ago, I wrote about “Haiku Productivity” and how limits can make us more productive, more focused, and better able to prioritize and simplify.

The idea comes from haiku poetry, in which the poet is limited to three lines and (essentially) 17 syllables. Such a crazy limit, and yet the poetry that can be produced is often very powerful.

Leo Babauta
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Leo Babauta is the author of six books and the writer of Zen Habits, a blog with over 2 million subscribers. Visit ZenHabits.net
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