If you’ve ever found it difficult to get through a challenging task at work, studied for an important exam, or spent time on a finicky project, you might have wished you could increase your ability to concentrate.Well, the good news is - you actually can enhance your concentration. Let's look at everything you do.

Research suggests that playing video games could help boost concentration.<ul><li>A study looking at 29 people found evidence to suggest an hour of gaming could help improve visual selective attention (VSA), your ability to concentrate on a specific task while ignoring distractions.</li><li>Another study looked at 100 studies examining how video games could affect cognitive function. The results suggest playing video games may lead to various changes in the brain, including increased attention and focus.</li></ul>

1. How about some FIFA? 

A demanding schedule, health issues, and other factors sometimes make it difficult to get enough sleep. But it’s important to try and get as close to the recommended amount as possible on most nights.Many experts recommend adults aim for 7 to 8 hours of sleep each night.

2. Sleep like a baby

Increased concentration is among the many benefits of regular exercise. Exercise benefits everyone. A 2018 study looking at 116 fifth graders found evidence to suggest daily physical activity could help improve both concentration and attention after just 4 weeks.P.S. - If it’s hard to find time to exercise or you don’t want to join a gym, try to think of fun ways to work it in throughout the day. May be a walk?

3. Hit the gym, the road,  or the backyard

If you want to boost your concentration naturally, try to get outside every day, even for a short while. You might take a short walk through a park. Sitting in your garden or backyard can also help. Any natural environment has benefits.According to the American Psychological Association (APA), spending time in nature can have a positive impact on both physical and mental health.

4. Spend time in nature

You’ve spent a few hours on the same project, and suddenly your attention starts to wander. Even though it’s hard to keep your mind on the task, you stay at your desk, forcing yourself to keep going. But your struggle to focus just makes you feel stressed and anxious about not completing your work on time.You’ve probably been there before. Next time this happens, when you first feel your concentration drop, take a short mental break. Refresh yourself with a cool drink or nutritious snack, take a quick walk, or go outside and get some sun.

5. Take a break. Please?

Here are five tips from Healthline to improve concentration.

Ways to improve concentration, include brain games, meditation, music, and more. If you're finding it hard to focus and these tips don't help, consider asking a doctor.

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5 Sure-Shot Ways to Improve Concentration

Productivity is the amount of work that you accomplish over a given period of time. Now this productivity would also have some quality attached to it. A widespread standard way or technique to boost productivity is by saying that “you need a strong reason to accomplish something”, which is very vague. Sure, you need a reason, but it isn’t the only ingredient which drives productivity, some times, even after having a strong reason people procrastinate, just because they don’t feel like doing the task.

To be productive you need to “be focused” on the work that you are trying to accomplish and stay contextual to the work at hand. Being contextual and aligned to a larger goal/s, gives your work a sense of meaning. When you are meaningful, you think and act critically. Your flow towards the work is of the highest quality.

Focus

The next thing is to be able to focus on the result, rather than the problem. For e.g., if you are trying to figure out to accomplish a task efficiently, focus on asking the right questions like “what is the efficient way?” Ask yourself “How will it be efficient?”, rather than being stuck with the problem of being inadequate with efficiency. If you are brain storming you will need critical thinking and a good level of self-awareness which drives you to think in the right direction.

Asking the right questions

Keeping your thoughts around what is that you are trying to accomplish makes it easier and it releases a set of ideas in an organic way. When you know what is that you want, you take action and think with the right mindset. It sets up the stage.

Knowing the result

Flow is an organic outcome of being focused and diligent. It will drive you to the right ideas and connections through your mind and help you find great solutions and ideas. When you get deeply involved in a process, you contemplate in the highest quality.

Flow

To-do’s with a timeline help you boost your efforts and make you responsible along with providing a sense of ownership. When you own a certain task/s, it prompts you to think in the right direction. Keeping an end to the task takes you away from procrastination.

Timelines with to-do’s, owning

When you visualize the end of a task(end result) the connecting processes will happen on it own. You don’t even have to figure out the “how” to accomplish the task. When you visualized you have already prepared a blue print immaterially and prepared to an extent. You will be able to be in flow quickly and easily if visualize the process before you get started. Visualization of a process makes it easier to find efficient ways.

Visualization is very effective

A good energetic person will have an abundance of creative ideas and be full of enthusiasm towards the task at hand. Having a sharp intellect makes it easier to accomplish difficult task/s, it helps to come up with efficient ways to accomplish something complex in nature

Energy and enthusiasm

Your team is productive when the direction is set and strategized well, everybody knows what is required of them. Getting queries of individuals answered by someone “a leader” would make a team empowered, as they have a reliable source to get them moving forward. Communication, direction and to unknot the complexity is the responsibility of a leader. They are responsible for guaging the amount of work accomplished and getting things done

Producitivity in a team

Become A Mentor 

Because i think this can help you to achieve growth and change in you to become a better person or a good employee.

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Many of us limit ourselves with false beliefs about our intelligence or other abilities. But the truth is, you don’t have to be born a genius in order to succeed. You just need to cultivate your individual abilities and motivation. You do so by identifying your purpose and using that to push you forward. And then, it’s a matter of choosing the most suitable among the many great methods of studying, focusing, memorising, reading and thinking. That will make your learning truly limitless.

Key Message

To-do lists are a classic productivity staple, but the trouble is, they don’t help you prioritize your tasks. That’s where a not-to-do list comes in. To make one, first identify all the tasks that you can’t do because of outside circumstances. Then, write down tasks you might consider “busywork.” Next, add all the things you might delegate to other people, or tasks for which you already have a system in place. And now have a list of everything you shouldn’t try to get done today!

Actionable advice

An instant New York Times bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller. JIM KWIK, the world’s #1 brain coach, has written the owner’s manual for mental expansion and brain fitness. Limitless gives people the ability to accomplish more--more productivity, more transformation, more personal success and business achievement--by changing their Mindset, Motivation, and Methods. These “3 M’s” live in the pages of Limitless along with practical techniques that unlock the superpowers of your brain and change your habits. For over 25 years, Jim Kwik has worked closely with successful men and women who are at the top in their fields as actors, athletes, CEOs, and business leaders from all walks of life to unlock their true potential. In this groundbreaking book, he reveals the science-based practices and field-tested tips to accelerate self learning, communication, memory, focus, recall, and speed reading, to create fast, hard results. Learn how to: FLIP YOUR MINDSET Your brain is like a supercomputer and your thoughts program it to run. That’s why the Kwik Brain process starts with unmasking assumptions, habits, and procrastinations that stifle you, redrawing the borders and boundaries of what you think is possible. It teaches you how to identify what you want in every aspect of your life, so you can move from negative thinking to positive possibilities. IGNITE YOUR MOTIVATION Uncovering what motivates you is the key that opens up limitless mental capacity. This is where Passion + Purpose + Energy meet to move you closer to your goals, while staying focused and clear. Your personal excitement will be sustainable with self-renewing inspirations. Your mind starts strong, stays strong, and drives further exponentially faster. MASTER THE METHOD We’ve applied the latest neuroscience for accelerated learning. Our process, programs, podcasts, and products unleash your brain’s own superpowers. Finish a book 3x faster through speed reading (and remember every part of it), learn a new language in record time, and master new skills with ease. These are just a few of the life-changing self-help benefits. With Kwik Brain, you’ll get brain-fit and level-up your mental performance. With the best Mindset, Motivation and Method, your powers become truly limitless.

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An instant New York Times bestseller and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller.   JIM KWIK, the world’s #1 brain coach, has written the owner’s manual for mental expansion and brain fitness. Limitless gives people the ability to accomplish more--more productivity, more transformation, more personal success and business achievement--by changing their Mindset, Motivation, and Methods.   These “3 M’s” live in the pages of Limitless along with practical techniques that unlock the superpowers of your brain and change your habits.   For over 25 years, Jim Kwik has worked closely with successful men and women who are at the top in their fields as actors, athletes, CEOs, and business leaders from all walks of life to unlock their true potential. In this groundbreaking book, he reveals the science-based practices and field-tested tips to accelerate self learning, communication, memory, focus, recall, and speed reading, to create fast, hard results.   Learn how to:   FLIP YOUR MINDSET Your brain is like a supercomputer and your thoughts program it to run. That’s why the Kwik Brain process starts with unmasking assumptions, habits, and procrastinations that stifle you, redrawing the borders and boundaries of what you think is possible. It teaches you how to identify what you want in every aspect of your life, so you can move from negative thinking to positive possibilities.   IGNITE YOUR MOTIVATION Uncovering what motivates you is the key that opens up limitless mental capacity. This is where Passion + Purpose + Energy meet to move you closer to your goals, while staying focused and clear. Your personal excitement will be sustainable with self-renewing inspirations. Your mind starts strong, stays strong, and drives further exponentially faster.   MASTER THE METHOD We’ve applied the latest neuroscience for accelerated learning. Our process, programs, podcasts, and products unleash your brain’s own superpowers. Finish a book 3x faster through speed reading (and remember every part of it), learn a new language in record time, and master new skills with ease. These are just a few of the life-changing self-help benefits. With Kwik Brain, you’ll get brain-fit and level-up your mental performance.   With the best Mindset, Motivation and Method, your powers become truly limitless.

From official website: Jim was once known as the “boy with the broken brain.”A childhood head injury at age five left him struggling in school. For a while, he even believed he could never be as good as other kids when it came to learning.Jim loved superheroes as a kid – and comic books saved him when conventional education couldn’t. Comic books taught Jim how to read…and they also kept his dreams alive that one day he, too, would find his inner superpower. As the years wore on, fate led Jim to a mentor, a friend’s father, who sent him on a journey to learn about his brain and learn how to use it.

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If you focus on the obstacles, all you will see is obstacles. If you focus on the path through the trees, all you will see is a path through the trees. It’s your choice how you choose to perceive your own career. It’s literally perspective. You can't tell the human brain not to do something. When we do that, what happens is we reinforce things when we put things we want out of our focus.

Stop focusing on the obstacles

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Imagine a month in which you’re extremely productive where you complete every important task without any procrastination. You follow every routine and ritual, like waking up early, doing meditation, journaling, or working out.In this blog, we are gonna plan the next perfect month with the help of systems like Habit Tracker, Daily Planner, and ABCDE method. I like to do this because I have realized that at the micro-level it’s all about good habits if you want to be productive. You could highly benefit from this system if you have a 9 to 5 job and also doing some side hustle.

How to plan for a perfect Month

A habit tracker is a simple way to measure whether you did a habit. For example, if you did a workout on Monday you will cross off that day on the calendar. I make a habit tracker not because I am the most organised person, it’s the opposite. I am seriously chaotic and easily distracted, So I need a system to keep me laser-focused. Motivation is over-rated anyway and willpower doesn’t work either, at least not for long. I usually make a habit tracker on canva and rarely use photoshop because the Canva user interface is much easy to engage.

What is a habit tracker?

I keep a track of days when I wake up early around 6 am because I have noticed whenever I did, I have been extremely productive.I also keep track of the days I did meditation which helps me with my creativity and keeps me pleasantly calm and focused.Once you start pursuing your goals and not be able to achieve them in the expected time, you start to see from a glass half empty lens and that is why I kept a section on Gratitude. For the last few months, I have been practising Gratitude which I have found extremely helpful in making me aware of all the good things in my life.

Tracking Provides Proof 

I also write Goals for every month. I realised having clear and precise goals eliminated the chances of procrastination because the moment you look into your calendar you realise you don’t have time to waste.I have assigned symbols for each habit, a cross for the days I woke up early around 6 am and a circle for meditation, right tick for the workout. The urge to keep the streak alive and not break the chain is immense.

Goals for the month

No month can be perfect unless you keep track of your everyday productivity. I also keep track of my productivity hours each day with the help of a google Extension named "MakeTime - increase productivity". This is the best tool I found for tracking my everyday productivity because I do most of my work on my laptop and I have found my phone seriously distracting, so I try to stay away from it. And The extension interface is interesting enough in a way that you don't waste time playing with it.Link for the Productivity tool named MakeTime:-<a href="https://maketime.online/i/45155">MakeTime Productivity Google Extensio</a>n

Tracking productivity hours Daily

We often have a distorted view of our own behaviour, on good days we overestimate our efforts but on bad days we underestimate them. With this tool, You can see how many hours you have spent working on your goals daily. It gives you a broad perspective of your efforts and keeps you honest.I usually track my study plan with this tool and as you can see I have spent 1000 hours on it. This not only makes me proud but also provides me with proof that I did everything I could to achieve my goals.

Numbers Don't lie

The beginning of my day is dominated by the notion of “What is the biggest and ugliest frog I have to eat today.”Before you assume something weird let me explain that here frog is a code for your biggest, most important task, the one you’re most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it. It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life at the moment.that’s why I became obsessed with waking up early. I wanna get my most important task done as early as possible so the amount of stress could be drastically reduced by the time in the evening.

Eat Frog Early in the Day Philosophy

The first rule of frog eating is this: If you have two frogs eat the ugliest one first. It means that if you have two important tasks before you, start with the biggest, hardest, and most important tasks first. Resist the temptation of starting the easiest task first.The second rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn’t pay to sit and look at it for very long.

Rules of Frog Eating

If you have too many tasks like 10 or 20 then try The ABCDE method to figure out which tasks are more important than the others.The ABCDE method is a powerful priority-setting technique that you can use every single day. Here’s how it works: You start with a list of everything you have to do for the coming day. think on paper. You then place A B C D E next to each item on your list before you begin the first task.An "A" Task is very important, something that you must do. this is a task that will have serious positive or negative consequences if you do it or fail to do it.

The ABCDE Method

If you have more than one A task you prioritize these tasks by writing "A-1", "A-2", "A-3" and so on.Your A-1 task is the biggest and ugliest frog of all.A "B" task is the one that you should do but it has only mild consequences. These are the tadpoles of your work life. This means that someone may be unhappy or inconvenienced if you don’t do one of these tasks but it is nowhere as important as an "A" task.The rule is that you should never do a "B" task when an "A" task is left undone. you should never be distracted by the tadpole when the big frog is sitting right there waiting to be eaten.

A "C" task is something that would be nice to do but for which there are no consequences at all, whether you do it or not.A "D" task is defined as something you can delegate to someone else. The rule is that you should delegate everything that someone else can do to free up more time for the A task.An "E" task is defined as something that you can eliminate, and it won't make any real difference.I didn’t understand the depth of time until I started planning my days. It’s easy to overlook the concept of planning and take your time for granted.

We have this perception that to drastically transform our life We have to do something big but the reality is that just by merely changing seemingly normal daily Habits and Planning your day, you can start to see exceptional results. Sure it's not the most exciting energy but it is the most productive one. Because people don't know How to make monotonous things exciting. Everything gets monotonous at some point. The only difference between professionals and amateurs is that amateurs leave when it gets boring, while professionals don't.

Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

How to Plan for the perfect Productive month.

Habit tracking and daily planning have been life changing activities for me. I have been doing all sorts of things like following strict regimes and routines that all extraordinary people do. I chose these habits because I knew that they would nurture my soul and increase my productivity. You can choose your own pair of good habits. I used to be afraid of planning because I was afraid of failure and disappointment. But now I am ready to face my fears, failures. Uncertainty is the biggest fear of humans so to become sure of our future we plan. I used to think if I would be spontaneous about my time, I would have more freedom but exactly the opposite happened to me time after time. I never seem to notice until this year. you can be seriously disciplined about your schedule while being rebellious and spontaneous in expressing your form of art and work. Book mentioned in the video: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

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Habit tracking and daily planning have been life changing activities for me.  I have been doing all sorts of things like following strict regimes and routines that all extraordinary people do. I chose these habits because I knew that they would nurture my soul and increase my productivity. You can choose your own pair of good habits. 

 I used to be afraid of planning because I was afraid of failure and disappointment. But now I am ready to face my fears, failures. Uncertainty is the biggest fear of humans so to become sure of our future we plan. I used to think if I would be spontaneous about my time, I would have more freedom but exactly the opposite happened to me time after time. I never seem to notice until this year.
you can be seriously disciplined about your schedule while being rebellious and spontaneous in expressing your form of art and work.


Book mentioned in the video:
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

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Plan a PRODUCTIVE month With HABIT TRACKER and DAILY PLANNER

Most of us don't hoard knowledge for knowledge sake. We usually do it as a path to improving our condition. Tiago Forte asked his note-taking students on some of the questions they are trying to address when hunting for information.

Knowing to DO

<ul><li>How can I build a good reading habit?</li><li>What can yoga teach me and move me towards?</li><li>How do I improve the functionality of my brain including cognitive processing and memory?</li><li>How can I improve every day by 1%?</li><li>How can I structure my goals so I increase my chances of achieving them?</li><li>What are the classics? What are they trying to teach us? And how is it relevant?</li><li>How can I consistently achieve the goals I set for myself?</li><li>What facets of my life can I automate?</li><li>How can I become friends with people that I want to be like?</li><li>What does systems thinking have to teach us about healing and personal growth?</li></ul>

Self Improvement

<ul><li>What can I do to switch off and relax from time to time?</li><li>How can I eat healthy food that is delicious?</li><li>How do I create a body that I am proud of and that serves me well?</li><li>How can I balance my personal life with my professional life while still feeling productive and fulfilled?</li><li>How can I achieve regular deep sleep?</li><li>How can I leverage social media in healthy and productive ways that add value to my personal and professional life?</li><li>What are the optimum behaviors, habits and tools to mitigate my cognitive challenges (ADD)?</li></ul>

Self Care

<ul><li>How am I my own biggest stumbling block?</li><li>How do I overcome my personal bottlenecks to be authentic, vulnerable, and risk failure?</li><li>How do you find your way after losing your faith?</li><li>What does living in integrity with myself look like?</li><li>What does showing gratitude for my life, look like?</li><li>What can I do to accept myself as I am?</li><li>What in my past casts a shadow on my present?</li><li>What are the most simple and universally effective practices to experience and sustain inner peace?</li><li>What am I missing?</li><li>What does addiction and recovery have to teach us?</li></ul>

Self Refelection

<ul><li>How can I become a more natural & effective collaborator?</li><li>How can I make problem-solving fun and attractive?</li><li>How can I generate income pursuing my interests?</li><li>What are the key skills to prepare for the future?</li><li>What forms of marketing are ethical, profitable for the marketer, and useful for the audience?</li><li>How do I build a career I don’t want to retire from?</li><li>How do I create residual streams of income that can buffer my productivity highs and lows?</li><li>What is the best platform for me as a creator?</li><li>What should my personal brand be, and how do I get it there?</li></ul>

Business & Career 

<ul><li>What should I invest my money into so it can work harder for me?</li><li>How do I catch up building a nest egg midlife?</li><li>How can we balance investing strategically with spending money on what we love today?</li></ul>

Finances

<ul><li>How can I improve my leadership skills and consistently support, empower, and challenge those around me?</li><li>What processes and people should I put in place in order to replace myself in the current business so I can focus on the next phase of the business before IPO?</li><li>How do we create messages that are unique and persuasive to rural voters in Maine?</li></ul>

Leadership

<ul><li>How can I not lose track of my core values and live up to them?</li><li>How can I foster greater understanding, equality, and unity without disenfranchising any in the landscape of gender diversity?</li><li>How do I live a fulfilled life with no regrets in all aspects of my life?</li><li>How can I deepen my self-awareness and sharpen the values that are most personal to me, so that they permeate all areas of my life?</li><li>What can I do to get clearer on my purpose?</li><li>How can people utilize technology in a way that corresponds to their values?</li></ul>

Values

<ul><li>How do I express myself clearly and more often to my wife to show her that I love her to the moon and beyond?</li><li>How can we cultivate a romantic relationship of respect, understanding, support, care, affection, and passion as a couple, which will serve as an example to our children so that they grow up to become adults responsible for the reality they live in, respecting themselves and others?</li><li>How can I curiously explore life together with my life partner?</li></ul>

Love, Spouse or Partner

What are we learning for. Here is a list of common questions people ask when going for knowledge.

Tiago Forte shares his running list of the most interesting, resonant, and provocative open questions his students have shared over the years.

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Problems we try to solve through knowledge gathering

Knowing what’s wrong is the first step to solving any problem, including feeling like you’ve let social media take over your life.
Luckily, that’s pretty easy nowadays with almost any electronic device you have - you can identify how much time you're spending on your phone and on different apps.

Wasting time on social media: Identify the problem

<ul><li>Use social media purposefully – it’s a great way to build connections with your community and drive engagement, after all. </li><li>When notifications are popping up all the time on your phone, it’s easy to forget that your social media accounts should be serving you, and not the other way around. </li><li>Have a specific time allotted within a day to check all your social media. </li></ul>

Turn off notifications

If you want to go one step further than just turning off your notifications, setting time limits for your apps will really help you stop wasting time on social media.

Set app time limits

Here are some things you can do to go on a social media detox:<ul><li>Announce your intent to go on a social media detox</li><li>Log out of your social media and have a trusted friend change the password</li><li>Uninstall social media apps on your phone</li><li>Install a website blocker on your laptop.</li></ul>

Do a digital detox

Mute unfollow and block are actually total cornerstones to protecting your sanity online and your time.You can these features on social media and in your life to protect yourself from negativity and direct your attention and energy toward what makes you feel happy.

Mute, block, and unfollow

Time management tips & strategies to stop wasting time.

How To Stop Wasting Time

Practical ways to stop wasting time on social media.

Determined to spend less time on social media? Me too! Here are some of favorite tips to stop wasting time on social media.

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How I Stopped Wasting Time on Social Media

How To Stop Wasting Time on Social Media

We all waste time. In fact, one survey found that 89% of employees admitted that they waste time at work every day. Not that that’s always a bad thing. There is a thin line between good and bad wasting of time, however.Unplugging and recharging, building relationships, learning a new skill, and hobbies are good time wasters. Bad wasting time would be doing trivial and unproductive tasks. Other bad wastes of time are activities where nothing is learned or procrastinating when you shouldn’t.

Wasting Time Can Be Beneficial When You Need To Recharge

The 2–Minute Rule overcomes procrastination and laziness by making it so easy to start taking action that you can’t say no.<ul><li>The first part of this rule is that if a task takes under two minutes or less to complete, do it immediately. Examples would be responding to an email or tossing your laundry into the dryer.</li><li>The second part of this rule is that when starting new habits, it should take less than minutes to do.</li></ul>More importantly, the two-minute rule encourages us to just get started. This makes us feel in control and optimistic, which gives us some momentum.

Try the 2-Minute Rule

According to a study on motivation, researchers found that abstract thinking is an effective method to help with discipline. While “dreaming big” is sound advice, you need to balance that with intrinsic motivators.The answer to this problem  - “micro quotas” and “macro goals.” This means that your goals should be your big-picture items. But, quotas are the minimum amount of work you must do daily to make your bigger goals a reality. Simply put, quotas make each day approachable. And your goals become achievable because of this.

Set Macro Goals and Micro Quotas

Multitasking is ineffective and one of the biggest time wasters around. That’s because the human brain can only focus on one thing at a time. 
Do one thing at a time. Eliminate distractions. Create a priority list. And, take frequent breaks.

Stop Wasting Time By Single-Tasking

Think about your day as if you leave tomorrow on a long cruise with no Internet connection. What do you do? Do you delegate? What do you ditch?Suddenly, you’re hyper-aware and more efficient because the stakes are higher. You’re not spending time on things that don’t need to get done.

Prioritize Like You’re Going On Vacation

Deadlines are able to control procrastination. Here’s the kicker, though. You need to announce that deadline to someone who will keep you accountable.
Time frames create a sense of urgency, and build momentum. If there is no deadline there is no urgency, and whatever you are working towards might never happen.

Stop Wasting Time: Create and Stick to Deadlines

Self-forgiveness for procrastinating can reduce future procrastination. We often avoid doing things that make us feel bad. That pent-up guilt of wasting time will keep repeating. But, if you forgive yourself, you’ll be able to break that cycle.

Forgive Yourself

The idea is to go hard at a task for a set period of time, and then take a short break. After you’ve completed four pomodoros, take a longer break of between 15 and 30 minutes.”The Pomodoro Technique is supposed to improve concentration and avoid multitasking. At the same time, those breaks are meant to reset and refresh your brain.

Use the Pomodoro Technique

<ul><li>Low task value. These are the tasks that we view as low value. When a task is unpleasant or boring, we try to tie it with a more enjoyable activity. Using deadlines or the two-minute rule can help get around this.</li><li>Personality. Some people are more impulsive and easily distracted than others. Know your triggers and look for ways to keep them at bay.</li><li>Expectations. When you expect to complete a task easily, you’re less likely to procrastinate. Go back to the two-minute rule and get it done.</li><li>Goal failure. Fear of failure is prominent in procrastinators. Work on building your confidence so that you ge<warningtag>t small wins. As a result, you can build momentum and overcome procrastination.</warningtag></li></ul>

 Identify the 4 Pillars of Procrastination

Wasting time is about recharging your battery and de-cluttering. There is a thin line between good and bad wasting of time, however.

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Practically, that means this: You might work for 50 hours a week, but if you don’t experience any growth personally, emotionally, or financially, you’re not effective.

Results Matter The Most

If you don’t measure your time, it’s tough to stop procrastination or improve your productivity. Because if you want to manage your time better, you have to know where it goes first.
The specific method you use for your activity log doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is that you want to keep a record for at least two weeks. Preferably, you want a whole month of recorded activities.

To Stop Wasting Time, Know Thy Time

Go through all the recurring activities in your log one by one. What would happen if you would stop doing them?<ul><li>If the answer is: “All hell breaks loose.” Don’t change anything.</li><li>But if your answer is: “Nothing would happen.” You’ve hit gold.</li></ul>We all do activities that have ZERO returns. There are the time-wasters.

Identify The Non-Productive Work

That’s how you stop wasting time. Know where your time goes. Identify the critical tasks from the trivial tasks in your life. And cut the trivial, time-wasting, tasks.
Often, we start time-wasting activities, and they become habits. And if you don’t become aware of the pointless behavior, it’s difficult to break those bad habits.

How You Stop Wasting Time: Eliminate The Time-Wasters

A productive life equals happy life. But we insist on wasting time, which makes it hard to live a productive life.

I think that a productive life equals happy life. But we insist on wasting time, which makes it hard to live a productive life.

How To Stop Wasting Time and Improve Your Personal Effectiveness

When we are task switching some of our attention is still thinking about the first task so we are only half-focused on the new task.  Having social media and email tabs open on your browser allows their notifications to pop up on the screen, which is enough to derail our focus Todays workers feel like they are being more productive however they are merely moving information and completing small tasks which makes them feel busy--not productive though. Task switching and distractions are preventing us from truely focusing.

Multitasking and distraction are killing our productivity

There are four strategies for achieving deep work:<ol><li>Monastic approach- this is eliminating all sources of distraction and secluding yourself like a monk.</li><li>Bimodal approach- this is setting a clearly defined, long period of seclusion for work and leaving the rest of our time open for anything else.</li><li>Rhythmic approach- this approach is about forming a habit of doing deep work for blocks of  ~90 minutes and using a calendar to track your accomplishments.</li><li> Journalistic strategy- this one has you doing deep work in any unexpected free time in your daily routine.</li></ol>

Achieving deep work requires intention

Despite the strategy you choose the important part to remember is the the key is consistency with that routine.The difference between being in the zone and deep work is being in the zone happens by chance and after hours of procrastination but deep work is intentional and desired. One ritual you could have is to define your workspace. Placing a "do not disturb" sign on your door or going to a coffee shop or library Another way is to define specific boundaries. For example, you could completely disconnect from the internet or turn your phone on silent. You just need it to be a sustainable routine

Having a ritual is essential for deep work

﻿“If you don’t produce, you won’t thrive—no matter how skilled or talented you are.”

We should track our habits to separate productive from unproductive time so we can spot patterns. Adding routines and rituals to our day allows us to need our limited willpower less in order to maintain a state on unbroken concentration

Know how you spend your time

The idea here is to use any downtime, such as when you are walking the dog or riding the subway or driving to work to do some deep thinking. You might try to use the time to solve a complex problem--Try to see sub-problems and break it down so you can solve it.You can ask yourself action questions like "What do I need to do to get to my goals?"The key is to be mindful with how you spend your time and give your brain a mental workout. This is stimulating your brain and allows you to focus on something demanding.

Productive meditation can help us stay focused

Cal Newport says that our brains need space to wind down every night. Newport quits work every day at 5:30pm, no work, no email, no to-do lists. It's important to set limits. When you know you have to quit work at a specific time, it allows you to focus more intensely during your working hours.

Quit work at the same time every day and leave work at work

Deep work is an important con ept to use to maximize productivity.

Read the Wall Street Journal Bestseller for "cultivating intense focus" for fast, powerful performance results for achieving success and true meaning in one's professional life (Adam Grant, author of Give and Take). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & Leadership Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ

Master one of our economy’s most rare skills and achieve groundbreaking results with this “exciting” book (Daniel H. Pink) from an “exceptional” author (New York Times Book Review). Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep Work will make you better at what you do and provide the sense of true fulfillment that comes from craftsmanship. In short, deep work is like a super power in our increasingly competitive twenty-first century economy. And yet, most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way. In Deep Work, author and professor Cal Newport flips the narrative on impact in a connected age. Instead of arguing distraction is bad, he instead celebrates the power of its opposite. Dividing this book into two parts, he first makes the case that in almost any profession, cultivating a deep work ethic will produce massive benefits. He then presents a rigorous training regimen, presented as a series of four "rules," for transforming your mind and habits to support this skill. 1. Work Deeply 2. Embrace Boredom 3. Quit Social Media 4. Drain the Shallows A mix of cultural criticism and actionable advice, Deep Work takes the reader on a journey through memorable stories-from Carl Jung building a stone tower in the woods to focus his mind, to a social media pioneer buying a round-trip business class ticket to Tokyo to write a book free from distraction in the air-and no-nonsense advice, such as the claim that most serious professionals should quit social media and that you should practice being bored. Deep Work is an indispensable guide to anyone seeking focused success in a distracted world. An Amazon Best Book of 2016 Pick in Business & Leadership Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller A Business Book of the Week at 800-CEO-READ

Cal Newport is Provost’s Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University, and the author of seven books. His ideas and writing are frequently featured in major publications and on TV and radio.From his website: "I write about the intersection of digital technology and culture. I’m particularly interested in our struggle to deploy these tools in ways that support instead of subvert the things we care about in both our personal and professional lives."

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