10 More Simple Tips to Boost Your Productivity x2
The previous article on life-hacks was a huge success. Let's start the year with more productivity tips!
TL;DR: More tips to stay productive
TL;DR Just Read the Headlines.
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16 Simple Tips to Boost Your Productivity x10
17. Track Goal and Metrics ๐ฏ
Goals and objectives are important. But without tracking they are useless.
Progress metrics, and goal replanning, are keys.
It's never all-or-nothing!
Don't plan and abandon!
18. Build Habits ๐
Surgeon Maxwell Maltz learned it takes about 21 days to create a new habit.
It takes at least 21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to harden.
Creating (or removing) a habit is straightforward.
Repeat 21 days (streak).
Fake it till you make it.
19. Focus ๐๏ธ
If the product is free, you are the product
Attention is your asset When you use a website, application, or software and try to do A, you will see many alerts, banners, messages, and click baits prompting you to do B/C/D, etc.
Be like Ulysses, don't listen to Mermaids!
20. Disable notification questions ๐
Notifications are our enemy.
But notification prompts are also a Foe.
Disable Notifications Requests at all, on mobile or web.
21. Embrace Change ๐ฆ
Have clear goals but manage goals.
Revisit them often.
Don't stick to the plan.
There's no plan
Set aims and change direction if necessary
22 Summon the Panic Monster! ๐พ
To avoid Procrastination set daily goals with artificial hard deadlines.
I try to write daily articles even though they are far from perfect. Fake deadline: today.
23: Avoid Twitter trends ๐ค
(web hack)
Go to โExploreโ under โHomeโ
Click the wheel at the right of the โSearch Twitterโ box.
Click โExplore Locationsโ.
Pick a country (like St Kitts).
Now the โWhatโs Happeningโ will only display content for the location (empty).
You will only see your timeline.
25. Auto Deadlines ๐ซ
Use time limits to your advantage. Even if you donโt have a real deadline for a task, set one for yourself.
Knowing that you only have four hours left, will help ensure you donโt waste an hour of it on social media.
26. Set SMART goals ๐ฉ๐พโ๐ฌ
Specific
Measurable
Attainable
Relevant
Time-bound
Write your goals as SMART Sentences:
Example:
โWrite one Code Smell article every week until 2032."
27. Drastic Measures ๐ฑโ๐
Auto-block some distraction websites.
Use BlockSite or similar to keep you off social media or news
Block site IPs on hosts.txt or similar.
Cut off the internet using router rules.
Go to an internet void zone in the wild.
Engage in a goal-based group to be accountable.
This list is far from finished. But my auto-deadline was today.
Hopefully, draft tips will be out next week!
What do you think?