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Deep Work
This is the holy grail of productivity when your mind is in high gear. As it is hard to summon at any time, we need to cultivate a routine, along with a system for keeping you consistent with your deep work. To get started on a deep work routine, you need to:
- Decide on a consistent time for the deep work.
- Start small, and gradually expand it.
- Eliminate distractions during that time.
- Track your progress and reward yourself on accomplishing your daily routine.
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- Bet your friend that you will complete something at a set deadline or will pay him something out of your pocket.
- Go to a cafe with your laptop and no charger, and see yourself getting focused automatically.
- While working from your home office, remove the TV from your work ...
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Learn To Use Procrastination
The desire to procrastinate is a healthy brain craving, a natural need for novelty and curiosity. We must stop the negative self-talk we have towards us not working as a machine all the time. The leisure ‘do nothing’ time is extremely important for the brain's creative juices to start flowing.
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Observe Your Need To Procrastinate
- Observe the need to procrastinate, recognizing and being aware of your desire. This is called meta-recognition and is what all the Gurus keep talking about when they speak about awareness.
- Label and accept your urge to waste your time, but without any negative judgement.
- V...
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The Real Enemy of Flow
The biggest obstacle, the main villain hampering our productivity is always in your hands, and rarely in your pockets. _It’s your smartphone. It needs to be powered off for some time. Your laptop, clamouring for attention, is not helping either. Remove all distractions and notifications so that y...
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Get Organized in a Timed Way
To eliminate distraction, we need to find where we start doing it.
Often it’s when we are organizing and doing the prep work, the stuff required for us to start working. Getting yourself organized in a timed way (about 5 minutes) helps us deflect any possible entry point of distraction.
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Organize Your Deep Work
- Develop a deep work schedule and routine: A systematic way of getting in that deep work mindset is to develop a routine in which you always perform the task in the same place and time, for a given time frame.
- Work on what matters: At the end of the day, you should be ac...
Deep work
- Work in full-screen mode to remove all distractions and focus on the task at hand.
- Always wear headphones.
- Plan your entire week on Sunday.
- Listen to the same song on repeat. It help you lose track of time and focus on your task.
- Design productivity space...
Why deep work?
To learn hard things quickly, you must focus intensely without distraction. To learn, in other words is an act of Deep work.
To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distractions.
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