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3 Things You Can Do To Start A Year Of Action - Productivityist
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Connecting With Your Actions
By using contexts and looking inward, you’ll create better awareness for yourself. And that will lead to a better for yourself too.
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Learning to Say No
Learning to say No to certain unproductive or distracting actions is the best way to leave space for what's important in your life.
Obligatory behavior doesn't go well with what you want to do. Every aspect of your life will suffer if you take up too many things.
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Getting Things Done: the basics
- Capture. Write down everything you need to do.
- Clarify. Break down each task into an actionable next step.
- Organize. Move each of those actionable ta...
The 2-minute rule
If the effort to keep remembering a task is more than just getting it out of the way now, then do it.
Fixing small tasks
- Fixing things is empowering. Our confidence increases or decreases based on our ability to make progress.
- Any progress builds momentum (and your mood): No matter how small the task is, crossing it off your to-do list gives you a boost of momentum and enhances your mood.
- Small steps turn into habits: When a task is easy to do and quickly completed, it’s much easier to turn it into a habit.
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Applying First Principles Thinking
1. Deconstruct and look at the components of what you're working on and question all the assumptions you have about them. Think of different ways the same function can be accomplished.
First Principles Thinking
Also known as Deconstruction, it’s a way of thinking supported by Elon Musk and many scientists. It consists of breaking what you know into its components until its fundamental parts can be understood.
We have a lot of assumptions. Breaking something apart yields more information allowing you to challenge assumptions.
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The weekly review
It’s dedicated time to think about the past week, reflect on what went well and what didn’t, and plan for the week ahead.
It’s a chance to get aligned with your goals and ensure ...
The 3 parts of a weekly review
- Get Clear: process all your loose-ends.
- Get Current: make sure all your items are up to date.
- Get Creative: come up with new ideas to improve how you live and work.
Benefits of weekly reviews
- You gain an objective view of the week: a weekly review forces you to practice intention by taking time to pause and reflect as you consider what you did versus what you planned to do.
- You become proactive in planning: a weekly review isn’t only a retrospective, but a prospective too. It lets you run through the upcoming Monday to Friday proactively.