Resources: December 2025
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RESOURCES
December 2025
This week, Tim shares one of his courses from the 2025 Digital Fire Time Summit.
In this course, Tim talks about:
- Managing the tension of the “whirlwind” and the wildly important work that has to get done.
- The axis scale of urgent vs. important and the four quadrants of work.
- “The Tim Rethlake time ratio” and the benefit of investing the time to understand a customer’s problem and advise a solution.
- Prioritizing the 4 critical tasks of a salesperson: 1. Sit down with every customer and complete an Understanding Form. 2. Write an estimate for every customer before they leave. 3. Follow up with 15 customers each week. 4. Send thank-you cards to your customers every month.
“More and more, I think my issues with conventional productivity advice—indeed, with the very notion of productivity—boil down to this: Spending your days trying to get through a list of things you feel you have to do is a fundamentally joyless and soul-destroying way to live, and most productivity problems, like distraction or procrastination or a lack of motivation, can be understood as internal rebellions against a life spent so dispiritingly. And yet most of what passes for expert advice just involves organizing the list differently, or getting through the list more efficiently. Whereas the real trouble lies in the whole underlying idea of life as a matter of slogging your way through a list.”
Resource 3: "Brutally Honest Business Advice from Billionaire Mark Cuban"
Mark Cuban explains that work is the x-factor that elevates the truly successful.
