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Experiment with your deadlines
The proximity of a deadline can also activate different systems: the closer the deadline, the more your “doing” mindset is activated.
Change your deadlines to get into convergence, the doing mindset.
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Get Some Distance
Physical and mental distance influence the way you think about things. Distance engages the thinking system.
Your workplace environment is strongly associated with getting things done. In order to engage a thinking mindset, spend time working in another place. Change your environmen...
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Thinking or Doing
We have a ‘thinking’ system and a ‘doing’ system – and we’re generally only capable of using one at a time.
- Thinking requires Diverging(trying to come up with as many ideas as possible).
- Doing requires Converging (evaluating ideas and figure out which ones are best).
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Stand Up and Move
The modern workplace revolves around sitting.
The seated posture reinforces the activation of a thinking mindset.
If you need to jumpstart your doing mindset, get moving. Stand up. Walk around your workspace. By getting up and moving, you get into a converging, action-oriented mode o...
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Set multiple deadlines
A way to create less stressful deadlines is to break large projects into smaller tasks. Set a deadline for each task instead of just one final deadline.
Regularly spacing the deadlines out will give a sense of moving forward, which can motivate you to complete the task.
Deadlines - friend or foe?
As approaching deadlines become more apparent, they get scary. We’re tied to the conveyor belt of time, pushing us into THE DEADLINE like a death contraption in an old James Bond movie.
It’s only in hindsight that the scary impending-doom buzz-saw turns out to be our best friend.
The problem with internal deadlines
Most people work best with hard, external deadlines. A deadline requires you to focus because you have to deliver.
But when we create arbitrary due dates for ourselves, we tend to continually push them back when we get busy or sick or don't feel like doing...
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