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4 Better Ways to Create Deadlines
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Make Them Urgent
It’s easy to procrastinate when you have all the time in the world to complete a task.
Schedule your deadlines as close to the present as possible. You will be more driven throughout the process.
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Make Them Personal
We do not all solve a problem in the same way. People usually fall into one of these 4 categories:
- Prioritizers and planners like to work based on how much time each part of a task will take.
- Arrangers focus on how they’re feeling.
- Visualizers are motivated by considering the big picture.
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Make Them Actionable
When your tasks feel overwhelming, it can be difficult to start.
Break down your projects into smaller, actionable steps. Identify one chunk that you could work on in a 10-minute segment to help you get started.
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Make Them Meaningful
Tell someone about your deadline or use an app.
Having an outside motivator helps to keep you accountable to your deadlines.
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Dealing with to-do lists
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- 41% of to-do items are never completed.
- 50% of completed to-do items are done within a day.
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Too many to-do's
Most of us put way too much stuff on our lists. And that puts us on the path to failure.
Overstuffing our lists causes a continuous thrum of worry in our heads. And the worry that results from having too many conflicting goals causes our productivity as well as our physical and mental health to suffer.
How we're making to-do lists
We're just not good at constructing our to-do lists. It's not as simple as it looks.
Many of us aren't any good at formulating the tasks on the list, failing to think through steps and plans, so that when we're faced with too many tasks and too few suggestions on how to proceed, we don't complete tasks. Remember that the to-do list string around your finger is for you to make better plans using the list.
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The Relationship Between Goals And Burning Out
Effective goal-setting underlies the fundamental aspect of your motivation and keeps stressful situations at bay.
If you don’t set goals in positive, attainable ways, you may fall i...
Reorganizing Your Goal Hierarchy
As losing resources is more likely to cause burnout than gaining resources is to mitigate it, dealing with the negative aspects is more beneficial than using positive “band-aid” fixes. You want to drive down uncertainty and inefficiency to ensure that you aren’t doing unnecessary tasks and minimize your emotional exhaustion. To do that:
- Create a chart and place your major goal at its top, followed by layers of very specific subgoals needed to attain the major goal.
- Find and fix the inefficiencies in your goal hierarchy.
- Determine the attainability of each goal.
Burnout Symptoms And Signs Of Exhaustion
- Chronic fatigue
- Insomnia
- Impaired concentration/ forgetfulness
- Loss of appetite
- Anxiety
- Increased illness
- Physical symptoms
- Chest pain
- Shortness of breath
- Dizziness
- Gastrointestinal pain
- Depression
- Interpersonal problems.
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Be a Game Master
- Reward yourself for fulfilling one or several tasks
Use surprise rewards.
- Determine a reward by chance.
Gamify Your Business
Product Gamification
- Add new features to a product to make it addictive when used.
Marketing Gamification
- Gamify experiences to increase loyalty among existing clients.
Workplace Gamification
- Train employees and help them grow into a leader.
Gamify Your Life with Apps
- Do It Now (RPG To Do List)
- Habitica/HabitRPG (Boosts General Productivity)
- MindSnacks (Language Learning Apps)
- SuperBetter (App for Tracking a Single Difficult Goal)
- Fitocracy (Workout Fitness Log)
- Productivity Challenge Timer
- LifeRPG (Task List Based on a Mission-Oriented Approach)
- EpicWin (RPG-Style To-Do List)
- Life Strategy (Life Managing App)
- Thirty – Get Inspired (Habit-Building App)