How to get 4 hours of work done in 2.
Follow these 5⃣ simple, actionable steps to immediately increase your productivity 🧵:
Follow these 5⃣ simple, actionable steps to immediately increase your productivity 🧵:
1. Work at your peak time of day
Your peak work time is personal to you.
It is the time of day that you find it easiest to channel your focus and find that deep flow state.
As an example:
Your peak work time is personal to you.
It is the time of day that you find it easiest to channel your focus and find that deep flow state.
As an example:
Many people find the early mornings the optimal time to produce quality meaningful work, since:
• working before others have woken up and before checking social media avoids distractions
• in the evenings it is easy to feel tired from the day and want to relax
How about you?
• working before others have woken up and before checking social media avoids distractions
• in the evenings it is easy to feel tired from the day and want to relax
How about you?
2. Break your projects down
Breaking your projects down into smaller tasks makes them less intimidating.
Waking up on a Monday morning knowing you need to run 5km before work can make things challenging.
Instead, do this:
Breaking your projects down into smaller tasks makes them less intimidating.
Waking up on a Monday morning knowing you need to run 5km before work can make things challenging.
Instead, do this:
Wake with the mindset that you need to put on your running shoes before 7am.
This makes getting started a lot easier.
After that you can approach each of these in turn, to keep them easy:
•Open apartment door
•Walk out the door
•Walk to the park
•Run 1km
•Run 4 more km
This makes getting started a lot easier.
After that you can approach each of these in turn, to keep them easy:
•Open apartment door
•Walk out the door
•Walk to the park
•Run 1km
•Run 4 more km
3. Be specific in your time blocking
Allocate time in your calendar to the specific smaller tasks within a project.
Blocking off 2 hours for ‘begin writing article’ is not helpful.
Instead, do this:
Allocate time in your calendar to the specific smaller tasks within a project.
Blocking off 2 hours for ‘begin writing article’ is not helpful.
Instead, do this:
Block off three 30 minute periods (with short breaks) for:
1. ‘Draft article intro structure'
2. ‘Research key factors of article topic’
3. ‘Insert research-informed content into intro structure’
This means when you sit down to work, you know EXACTLY what you'll be doing.
1. ‘Draft article intro structure'
2. ‘Research key factors of article topic’
3. ‘Insert research-informed content into intro structure’
This means when you sit down to work, you know EXACTLY what you'll be doing.
4. Use a timer
This will be a huge help in maintaining focus.
A timer provides:
• motivation to work (because you know a break is coming soon)
• momentum - through allowing you to work in multiple small blocks
• proves tasks are easier than you thought
This will be a huge help in maintaining focus.
A timer provides:
• motivation to work (because you know a break is coming soon)
• momentum - through allowing you to work in multiple small blocks
• proves tasks are easier than you thought
5. Gamify your work
Turning work into a game makes the intimating and dull tasks easier to approach.
If you make using a habit of using small games, you will also start to sit down to do those tasks without thinking about it.
There are many ways to gamify your work:
Turning work into a game makes the intimating and dull tasks easier to approach.
If you make using a habit of using small games, you will also start to sit down to do those tasks without thinking about it.
There are many ways to gamify your work:
• give yourself rewards after completing tasks
• race against your previous fastest times
• use a habit tracker to tally what you’ve completed
• compete with a friend
I habit track, and find the thought of ticking off a task at the end of the day makes me get it done!
• race against your previous fastest times
• use a habit tracker to tally what you’ve completed
• compete with a friend
I habit track, and find the thought of ticking off a task at the end of the day makes me get it done!
TL:DR:
5 simple, actionable steps to immediately increase your productivity:
1. Work at your peak time of day
2. Break your projects down
3. Be specific in your time blocking
4. Use a timer
5. Gamify your work
5 simple, actionable steps to immediately increase your productivity:
1. Work at your peak time of day
2. Break your projects down
3. Be specific in your time blocking
4. Use a timer
5. Gamify your work
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