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16 Simple Tips to Boost Your Productivity x10

Maxi Contieri ・ Dec 29 '20

#codenewbie #webdev #productivity #lifehacks

17. Track Goal and Metrics 🥅

• Goals and objectives are important. But without tracking they are useless.
• Progress metrics, and goal replanning, are keys.
• It's never all-or-nothing!
• Don't plan and abandon!

18. Build Habits 🏃

• Surgeon Maxwell Maltz found out it takes about 21 days to create a new habit.
• It takes at least about 21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to harden.
• Creating (or removing) a habit is straightforward.
• Repeat 21 days (streak).
• Fake it till you make it.

19. Focus 👁️

• If the product is free, you are the product
• Attention is your asset
• When you use website/application/soft and try to do A, there will be a lot of alerts, banners, messages and clickbaits prompting you to do B/C/D, etc.
• Be like Ulysses, don't listen to Mermaids!

20. Disable notifications questions 🔕

• Notifications are our enemy.
• But notification prompts are also a Foe.
• Disable Notifications Requests at all, on mobile or web.

Chrome/Firefox

21. Embrace Change 🦋

• Have clear goals but manage goals.
• Revisit them often.
• Don't stick to the plan.
• There's no plan
• Set aims and change direction if necessary

22 Summon the Panic Monster! 👾

To avoid Procrastination set daily goals with artificial hard deadlines.

I try to write daily articles even though they are very far from perfect.
Fake deadline: today.

23: Avoid Twitter trends 🤐

(web hack)

1. Go to “Explore” under “Home”
2. Click the wheel at the right of the “Search Twitter” box.
3. Click “Explore Locations”.
4. Pick a country (like St Kitts).
5. Now the “What’s Happening” will only display content for the location (empty).
6. You will only see your timeline.

25. Auto Deadlines 🔫

• Use time limits to your advantage. Even if you don’t have a real deadline on a task, set one for yourself.
• Knowing that you only have four hours left, will help ensure you don’t waste an hour of it on social media.

26. Set SMART goals 👩🏾‍🔬

• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Relevant
• Time-bound

Write your goals as SMART Sentences:

Example:

“Write one Code Smell article every week until 2022."

27. Drastic Measures 🐱‍🚀

• Auto-block some distraction websites.
• Use BlockSite or similar to keep you off social media or news
• Block site IPs on hosts.txt or similar.
• Cut off internet using router rules.
• Go to an internet void zone in the wild.
• Engage on a goal-based group to be accountable.

This list is far from finished. But my autodeadline was today.

Hopefully, draft tips will be out next week!

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