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Creating a productive schedule
Avoiding procrastination
Prioritizing tasks effectively
Information Clutter
In the case of information, reading several articles and sources on the same topic can create a lot of clutter. Because it creates internal struggles and questions:
- What sort of information is important?
- This post said this is important while another post said it wasn’t important. What information is relevant here?
- What information should I internalize and apply?
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Using lists
Make a to-do list every day and use that to organize the most important tasks for you to complete that day.
Lists help to organize what must be done and give you a sense of time management as well.
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Mind mapping
It's a method of capturing thoughts and organizing them in a visual way.
This is an extremely effective tool to organize what matters most to you: If something is relevant to your goals and desires, write it down. If not, remove it from your mind.
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Addicted to Consuming Information
The amount of content on the Internet is huge and it’s practically impossible for us to consume it all. But we struggle with it anyway.
This creates a situation where we are constantly digesting information mainly because “we have got to know this.” Even if we never apply that inf...
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Creating collections
Put the notes that you make into specific groups of information. For example, if you have a lot of information on business ideas, or opportunities, write them in a book or place them in a digital document.
Toss out the information you no longer need or have tried before.
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Prioritize key information
This strategy takes the idea of making lists to the next level: summarizing the information you consume or placing the key points in a list you can consult later.
It doesn’t have to be organized in a collection or anything. The idea is that it’ll be easier to digest and process later w...
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The LATCH principle
... for organizing information:
- Location: put the most relevant stuff to be within reach.
- Alphabet: for organizing lists of people and statistics, dictionaries, and official documents.
- Time: used when providing step...
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6. The Low-Information Diet
- This is another important aspect of the decluttering process.
- Ferriss recommends making the task lists that keep you on track and create a
The more you think before you write, the easier it will be to write
If you set out to talk about a topic you don’t know, you must research and think about it a lot. Otherwise, the text is forced and full of information gaps. This phase is called think before ink. Ask these questions before starting to write:
- What is my purpose with this text?...
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Understand Your Audience’s Search Intent
- Informational — looking for specific information on a topic
- Navigational — wants to get to a specific web page or site
- Commercial — wants to investigate their op...
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