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Uncritical Productivity
Pursuing productivity for its own sake is counter-productive.
Most people feel able to complete more tasks when they start using time-management tools, but they don’t bear in mind that they can’t keep increasing their productivity forever, and they commit to more and more. In a few weeks, they are more productive but still frustrated.
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One size does not fit all
These time-management tools assume a lot of things about the environment where they are used and the individual personalities of people who use them.
- Some people have a better awareness of how much time they will spend on a particular task.
- Others are very prone...
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No holy grail
Bear in mind that productivity is not an endless race, just a tool with limits.
Experiment often, as finding an approach that fits your personality and habits can be hard.
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Balancing act
Back when more people worked in factories, laborers did not have to deal with time management. At the assembly line, time was managed for you.
Freedom comes with responsibility: you have to think a lot more about how you manage your time.
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Take control of your life
You are going to die – and this is a crucial fact for time management that is very often neglected.
Time management tools should allow you to take control of your life, and then structure your work around it – not the other way around.
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Created by software developers
Many of these time-management tools are made by a very particular group of people: software developers. “We always want to solve a problem we have ourselves." Unsurprisingly, tech workers are among these tools’ biggest enthusiasts.
Many of the most popular apps and techniques evolved this w...
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Time-management tools
They offer the promise that you would gain certain control over your life, but there's no guarantee it will work.
When it fails to work, most people try another app or another technique. The available evidence suggests these tools and strategies work for some people in some settings, but n...
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The Productivity Equation
Productivity = Useful Output/Time x Fun Factor
The more output we generate, the more productive we are; also the less time it takes to generate it, the more productive we are. But we should give our energy the useful things - there no point in being productive if we are no...
Reason #2 Why People Resist Change & How To Help
Reason: They don't know how big a deal the change actually is. Have you ever started a project so overwhelming that you didn’t even know where to start? This is how change can feel, too.
The Fix: Try using the 4-door approach to give the change some edges.
Make three to-do lists
We usually have more tasks on our to-do list than we ever can complete. This causes us to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of doing the easiest and most urgent tasks first and putting off the harder ones that are most important.
Instead of working...
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