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You don’t lack time. You just waste most of it on useless busyness.

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In A Nutshell:

In A Nutshell:

  • Time-block your day the night before.
  • Then, micro-visualize the same schedule in the morning.
  • When it’s time to work, speak out loud, “5–4–3–2–1: Eat the frog!” Eat the biggest frog in the morning.
  • And then, start a timer to make sure you stay anchored to the work at ...

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Here’s why it works wonders:

Here’s why it works wonders:

  • It eliminates the procrastination that stems from trying to decide “when” to start working.
  • When you lay out your day on a piece of paper and assign tasks to them, you’ll realize that you actually have a lot of time in a day.

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#1. Time-blocking

#1. Time-blocking

Time-blocking is an easy time-management hack by Cal Newport that takes just a minute but leads to so much clarity in your day.

The night before, simply divide the coming day into 30-minute blocks (or 5-minute blocks if you’re Elon Musk) and assign tasks to them.

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Start a timer

Start a timer

Whenever you start doing your work, set a timer for like an hour, or maybe 40 minutes. Whatever works for you.

Here’s why: a timer anchors you to the task at hand and makes distractions almost impossible. Because your mind knows the timer is on, it’s going to stay focused. ...

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5–4–3–2–1: Eat the frog for breakfast!

5–4–3–2–1: Eat the frog for breakfast!

Eating the frog is basically doing the most challenging and dreaded task of the day. And while you’re time-blocking it the night before, it’s best to schedule it first thing in the morning.

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Here's why:

Here's why:

  • The most challenging task of the day is also the one that induces the most procrastination. Hence, the later you schedule it, the more time you might waste time procrastinating because of the stress it induces.
  • But if you do it first thing in the morning, you’ll feel like a winner al...

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Micro-visualisation

Micro-visualisation

You’ve heard of visualization as a technique to improve your future. However, visualizing a bright future alone won’t do much if you’re not willing to dial it down to the present and inculcate the needful habits to convert those imaginations into reality.

This helps you double-ancho...

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An ordinary boy who is indiscriminately passionate about many things, develops the frontend of websites, a graphics designer, a bibliophile, Loves to learn and grow, and write. | In search of infinity!

These four, if practiced together, are genuinely a lethal combination that will kill procrastination.

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Humility and self-confidence

Humility and self-confidence

Successful people know what they don’t need to know and they don’t waste effort trying to learn it.

But most people feel pressure to know a lot of useless stuff because it will save them the embarrassment of ever appearing to not know something.

Two Minute Tasks

Two Minute Tasks

If you have a pending task that requires no more than two minutes of your time, don’t waste time writing it on a to-do list. Just get it done.

Busyness

Most people prize “being busy.” They proclaim it with pride as if it’s a badge of honor.

But extremely successful people don’t tolerate busywork or distraction. Because most of the time "busyness" is nothing more than distraction and procrastination from what really matters.

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