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How to create a productive environment
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Tailor your to-do lists
Use the 1-3-5 rule when putting together her daily to-do list.
On any given day, set nine goals for yourself:- one big-ticket project to tackle
- three medium tasks
- five small things.
This keeps you from feeling overwhelmed by an endless list, and also helps keep you focused on just those items.
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Set a short timeframe
“If you don’t want to do something, make a deal with yourself to do at least five minutes of it,” says Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom. “After five minutes, you’ll end up doing the whole thing.”
Getting started on somethi...
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Embrace procrastination
It creates artificial pressure that trains you to deal with real pressure during your career. Procrastinators have to learn to prioritize.
Because you’re doing everything at the last minute, there’s no time to forget anything or re-study anything. Your knowledge is fresh and the pressur...
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Build good habits in two minutes
The “two-minute rule” has two parts.
First, if something takes less than two minutes, do it now. Next, start building new habits for two minutes at a time. The rule for this is: When you start a new habit, it should take less than two minutes to do. The idea is to ...
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Complete tasks in batches
It takes time to get into a rhythm to work on a task. Instead of constantly starting and stopping that process, it’s better to keep your rhythm going by bundling similar tasks together.
By doing this, you avoid interruptions and prevents himself from procrastinating.
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End with the beginning in mind
Instead of just randomly quitting a task, make sure you leave off at a place that will inspire you to get going next time you’re ready to pick it up.
Before you finish work for the day, capture any open questions that you’re currently working on. Ask yourself: i...
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Overwhelming to-do lists
With a long, overwhelming list of to-do items, it becomes more tempting to tackle the small, easy things in order to make visible progress.
There’s nothing wrong with keeping a to-do list, but we need to make sure that the joy of erasing things from our to-do list is not shifting the...
Here are some potential to-do lists you can use to organize your
- Vision list – a list of all the things you want to experience in life, basically a kind of a bucket list
- Maybe someday list – Things that are not particularly important, that you may do one day
- The 100 day to-do list – your quarterly plan, with priorities selected for the com...
Make Project-Specific To-Do Lists
Daily to-do lists can demoralize us, as we tend to keep pushing to the next day what we can’t finish in time, which makes the list grow and seem overwhelming.
Project-specific to-do lists consist of project-specific lists of all the actions you need to take to complete the project. They ...
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