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Setting Up A Productivity System
Your system must mimic how your brain searches rather than setting up a new task that you must learn. This way, it will be easy to adopt, adapt and you will continue to use it in the long run.
You don’t want to spend time thinking about a system and setting it up only to stop using it. Or – even worse – make you do additional steps every time.
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Personal Management Systems
They are frameworks that ensure everything fulfills the tasks required.
For example: using a shopping list, so you won’t forget what to pick at the supermarket. Some use apps designed for that purpose, others go for pen and paper. Everyone is trying to get the same output - rememb...
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Identifying The Problem
What pain are you trying to solve? It could be spending less money, making decisions faster or eliminating decisions at all. Whatever it is, make sure you know it: you will build your system around it.
The bigger the pain the more you will use your system.
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Setting A System For The First Time
When setting your system for the first time you will need to process everything going backward - categorizing and filling all the items that will be in your system.
The easiest hack is to follow the 80/20 rule: Focus 20% of your efforts on 80% of the items so y...
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Golden Rules For A Great System
At its very core a productivity system must check 3 main points:
- Searchable: find anything in 5 seconds or less
- Easy to set up: the simpler the system the easier it will be to set it up; aim for less than one hour
- Easy to maintain: don’t add complex...
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Golden Rules For A Great System
At its very core a productivity system must check 3 main points:
- Searchable: find anything in 5 seconds or less
- Easy to set up: the simpler the system the easier it will be to set it up; aim for less than one hour
- Easy to maintain: don’t add complex...
Setting priorities
- The first 20% of any task usually accounts for 80% of the value of that task.
- Once you begin working on that task, the first 20% of the time that you spend planning and organizing the resources necessary to achieve the task usually accounts for 80% of your success.
Overcome procrastination
If you're procrastinating on a task, don't force yourself to finish it. Just put it in a time box.
Setting a time for it will help you overcome your resistance towards the task and chances are that when the time is up you’ll have built enough momentum to continue working on it much l...
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