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6 Practical Tips For Getting Shit Done
Break it down
Take each of your goals and break them out into a series of smaller goals that you can accomplish each month and week throughout the year.
This way you know what you have to do, so you can schedule the appropriate chunks of time to do it.
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Spark the fire
Attitude is everything, and being passionate about what you’re doing goes a long way during difficult hustle days.
If you’re not doing what you love right now, seek out the small things that bring you joy and start a daily gratitude practice to keep a positive mindset and track what sparks your internal flame.
Set intentions
To create and maintain daily motivation to get shit done - write your goals down.
Whether it’s project-based goals, annual achievements, or a lifelong vision - knowing what you are hustling for will fuel your drive and ensure your time is well spent.
Break it down
Take each of your goals and break them out into a series of smaller goals that you can accomplish each month and week throughout the year.
This way you know what you have to do, so you can schedule the appropriate chunks of time to do it.
Schedule priorities
Writing down ideas, notes, and future tasks can help clear the clutter from your brain so you’re able to focus on the task in the moment.
Knowing what you have on your plate allows you to evaluate what you’re spending your time on and how you should spend it.
Chunk
Set aside chunks of time to power through and focus on only the priorities you set for the day so you can work as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Knowing that you’ve set aside specific time for tasks will keep you on track and focused in the moment.
Take a break
Giving yourself time to rest and reflect will ensure you are efficient and healthy in the long run.
Scheduling in chunks of free playtime and using your vacation days will allow you to stay refreshed and creative.
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Mentally Prepare
Think if you are willing to sacrifice your free time to struggle to establish a side hustle and if you can handle the consequences of it.
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Your Skills And Areas Of Interest
Acquire relevant skills, experience or industry knowledge necessary and ensure you have the passion and competence for what you are going to work on.
A good start is to monetize the skills you already have that are related to the side hustle you want to establish this. And if you lack key skills that relate to your interests or the side hustle you want to create, there's no better time than the present to learn them.
Validate Your Side Hustle
Your side hustle idea may seem awesome and disruptive to you, but your potential customers will likely ignore it like most “brilliant ideas” or even not have a need for it. So, ensure you're not creating a solution to a problem that doesn't exist, as this is one of the top causes of startup failures.
You can do that with objective feedback from potential customers and asking them to join a waiting list, pre-purchase your solution or hire you as a service provider.
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What Deep Work Is
A process of performing “professional activities…in a state of distraction-free concentration that pushes your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve ...
Shallow work
The non-cognitively demanding, logistical-style tasks, often performed while distracted, tend not to create much new value in the world and are easy to replicate.
Recognizing our limited willpower
...is the first element of deep work.
That means you won’t have the mental discipline to stay concentrated on a single task unless you prepare your mind and environment to it.
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GTD (Getting Things Done)
GTD is a productivity method for organizing your to-dos, priorities, and schedule in a way that makes them all manageable.
Its 5 principles are:
- Capture
- Clarify
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"GTD is an organizational system. It doesn't put rules around how you actually do your work. Instead, it focuses on how you capture the work you need to do, organize it, and choose what needs your attention"
GTD: Capture
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