producitivty pron. part 1
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1.Make work packages (pants, socks, piles of
little tasks)
Group tasks of the same type and do them together. Your brain will work on the same wavelength which saves time on immersion in a task context. Don’t switch to minor tasks, if it’s possible to do them later because each “break” costs
you time on getting back to main work and getting the right tempo. Gather all trifles in a “pile” or a “package” and do
them at one sitting.
2. Eat a toad in the morning
If you have urgent, important but unpleasant tasks, do them! It would be better to do them right in the morning.
Unfulfilled important tasks will lie heavy on you all day long. Distract. Demotivate. Make it a rule for yourself: do the most unpleasant tasks in the first place. You can do the tasks you
like anytime in any mood.
3. Get off a dead horse
Don’t waste your time and energy on something that has already outrun itself. Search for alternatives, develop
yourself, go further. “Natural selection” works in every sphere of life, don’t resist nature.
4. Do important and non-urgent tasks in the first
place
Crises don’t spring up spontaneously. As a rule, we come to them. And you can decrease the quantity of crises (at least
those that depend on you). Define a task circle which is important for you and do it! Don’t allow important tasks to
become more and more urgent.
5. Divide and conquer, eat an elephant in small
bites
Solve large-scale tasks in parts. It will help you to deal with a system of any complexity without losing important but non-
obvious details. Divide et impera!
6. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a
single step
Every great thing consists of trifles. If you want to achieve a goal, you need to move towards it. Make the first step.
7. Proactivity, not reactivity
Your actions totally depend on you. Don’t react to outer irritators momentarily. Stop for a second. Feel the moment, a period between a stimulus and reaction. Freedom of actions
starts here, your independent will.
9. Sharpen your sawA saw is your personality. It consists of 4 elements: spiritual, mental,
physical and social/emotional. All of them need support and development. Stephen Covey provides a great example when a
person meets another person sawing a tree in a forest. The first one notices that the saw got blunted and it’s very hard for the other
person to continue the work. After advice that it would be better to sharpen the saw so that the process is faster and easier, the other
person says: “I’m busy! I don’t have time for sharpening! I’m sawing!”
10. There is no substitute for hard work
Luck is just an illusion. It happens when preparation meets opportunity.
11. The 2-minute rule
If you can do something (like a reply to an email or a house chore) in 2 minutes, do it now. Planning it for later,
remembering it, doing it in the future will take 5 minutes or more.
12. Don’t learn to fight genies. It’s unlikely that
you will ever meet them
“What?! Holmes, don’t you know that the Earth is round? Everybody knows this!” - Holmes answers quietly:
“Why should I know this? It won’t help me to clear the matter up”.
13. Concentrate on the ball
Players don’t think about opponents and a game outcome. They concentrate on what they can control — a ball. They
focus on their sphere of influence.
14. B-alertBlueprint. Every well-built house started with a definite plan. (Napoleon Hill)
Action. The only difference between winners and losers is that winners act!
(Anthony Robbins)
Learning. Two things will make you wiser: the books you read and the people you
meet. Charles Jones (“Tremendous”)
Exercises. All the money in the world is nothing if you hardly get out of bed in
order to enjoy it. (Will Smith)
Relaxing. Get some rest before you’re tired and you will never be exhausted.
(Dale Carnegie)Thinking. If you understand the power of thoughts, you’ll never think negatively.
(Pils Pilgrim)
About the author
Leonid Zverugo - 32dayz Co-founder & CEO
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