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3 Things You Can Do To Start A Year Of Action - Productivityist
Focus
Focus your attention 100% on the task at hand. Anything less is not ideal.
If you are getting distracted all the time, with email notifications, facebook updates, or a ringing telephone, you are essentially getting robbed of your attention.
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Connecting With Your Actions
By using contexts and looking inward, you’ll create better awareness for yourself. And that will lead to a better for yourself too.
Learning to Say No
Learning to say No to certain unproductive or distracting actions is the best way to leave space for what's important in your life.
Obligatory behavior doesn't go well with what you want to do. Every aspect of your life will suffer if you take up too many things.
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Applying First Principles Thinking
1. Deconstruct and look at the components of what you're working on and question all the assumptions you have about them. Think of different ways the same function can be accomplished.
First Principles Thinking
Also known as Deconstruction, it’s a way of thinking supported by Elon Musk and many scientists. It consists of breaking what you know into its components until its fundamental parts can be understood.
We have a lot of assumptions. Breaking something apart yields more information allowing you to challenge assumptions.
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Getting Things Done: the basics
- Capture. Write down everything you need to do.
- Clarify. Break down each task into an actionable next step.
- Organize. Move each of those actionable ta...
The 2-minute rule
If the effort to keep remembering a task is more than just getting it out of the way now, then do it.
Fixing small tasks
- Fixing things is empowering. Our confidence increases or decreases based on our ability to make progress.
- Any progress builds momentum (and your mood): No matter how small the task is, crossing it off your to-do list gives you a boost of momentum and enhances your mood.
- Small steps turn into habits: When a task is easy to do and quickly completed, it’s much easier to turn it into a habit.
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There are no such things as secrets when it comes to personal success
Practical Tips To Make Your Resolutions Stick Even Better ⚓️
Keep It Small — It’s about thinking big and acting small. You’ll achieve those big goals in time.
Measure Your Progress — If you don’t measure your progress, it’s safe to say that you are not making any.
Be Accountable To Yourself — One of the most important skills you can learn in life is to be self-reliant.