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To change your life, start by resetting your default behaviors - RescueTime
Leaving endless tabs open
How this behavior harms your productivity: not only do you have to constantly hunt for the tab you need to use, but you’re unnecessarily opening yourself up to distraction.
To change that, reset your default behavior by constantly clearing your workspace to neutral: open it, read it, then close it.
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Multitasking
Those that do multitask the most are the worst at it.
Productivity is defined as, “having the power to produce.” By that definition, multitasking is the opposite of productivity becau...
Not Getting Enough Rest
- When we get tired, we make mistakes, which means more time and money must be put into correcting those mistakes.
- When we get tired, it takes us longer to do things, costing more time and money to do something that could get done in less time if we were fully awake.
Doing Everything Yourself
Either one of two problems: you don’t like delegating tasks, or you’re having trouble prioritizing which tasks deserve your time.
Figure out which tasks deserve your time the most (or those tasks that you do best), and outsource something that’s of low priority.
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Default choices
90% of your daily decisions happen automatically, many shaped by your environment. Thus, most decisions are a habit, not a deliberate choice.
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Designing your life
Design your life like a choice architect:
- Encourage smarter decisions you want to do by making them more accessible.
- Add friction to habits you want to quit, making them less accessible, or remove the option to perform them completely.
Richard Thaler
“First, never underestimate the power of inertia. Second, that power can be harnessed.”
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The Dynamics of a Resolution
We all have goals to achieve and behavioral changes we want to implement. Making the resolution is the easy part. The implementation and the work that is to be put in daily is the real challenge.
Why Resolutions Fail
- Getting motivated by negative emotions like fear or regret.
- A sudden influx of motivation followed by giving up in the first instance of a setback ("All or Nothing" approach).
- Having a big and unattainable resolution.
- Not being in terms with the concept of failure.
- Not committing fully to the process.
Social Pressure
New research suggests we are less prone to keep working on our goals after we publicize them. This is because we may end up talking about our goals and celebrating our success prematurely rather than implementing them.
Social Pressure makes us fearful, as we can feel afraid of appearing inept. This negative mindset does not work well where we need daily work.