Power Up| Productivity


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Anti-schedule

The anti-schedule does not plan for work, but for leisure and recreation. As far as work is concerned, it is done "in your spare time".

For the anti-scheduling to be effective, follow a few rules:

🌀 Never add project work to the anti-schedule.

🌀 Only fix work after 30 minutes. It's simple: work is done - record it.

🌀 Don't record periods of less than 30 minutes. This helps maintain self-discipline.

🌀 Reward yourself for your hard work. Switch to a more enjoyable activity.

🌀 Keep track of your progress.

🌀 Don't overburden yourself.


🌀 Devote at least one day entirely to rest.

🌀 Allocate at least one hour a day for physical activity.

🌀 Learn to think in small portions. Just aim for a quality 30-minute workout.

🌀 Focus on getting started. Think not about finishing the work, but about getting started as early as possible.

🌀 Don't finish work early: always try to work for at least 30 minutes.


Maximum Productivity

Many people believe that the way to the top is through no days off and no interruptions. There is a rational basis for it, but do not forget about the possible side effects: problems in the family, illness, and emotional burnout.

Think about professional athletes — they alternate sweat-inducing workouts with recovery periods because it is during the rest that muscles grow. The brain works in a similar way; in order to be as productive as possible, you need to rest regularly.

You may ask: where do you find the time to recover when every minute counts and there is often no time to have lunch?

Here are 4 proven ways that can help:

1. Start delegating.
2. Make a plan and stick to it.
3. learn to say no.
4. Work to live, not the other way around.


The principles of the Minto Pyramid

The author of this method, Barbara Minto, worked for over 20 years at McKinsey, America's number one consultancy. Not all deals were successful, and she wanted to understand the reasons for successes and failures in negotiations with clients, and what to do about it.

In the end, she concluded that the reason was not the skills of the firm's employees. The main reason for this or that result is the way the information is communicated to the client.


The Arrow Method

📆 Entrepreneur Nicholas Sonnenberg, who came up with this method, believes that your weekly calendar should be like the tip of an arrow — lots to do at the beginning and less and less by the end of it. That is, on Monday you have the maximum number of lines in the diary filled, and by the weekend there are more and more free.

✅ The author of the method plans all the important things for Monday and Tuesday, so that on the other days to work in a more free schedule and be ready for new opportunities and unexpected, but interesting proposals.


Set clear deadlines

Deadlines for tasks and goals should always be present. They help not to get out of schedule and not to accumulate mountains of uncompleted work.

❗️Without goals and deadlines, you will achieve almost nothing, because you will become a victim of procrastination and inaction. It is very important to fix your goal in a diary and set a deadline for its implementation.

⏰ It is also possible and necessary to distribute your time and workload and allocate the necessary time for rest and recovery — the body and brain periodically need a restart and recovery.


Plan a rest along with things to do

Some people think that rest is something that happens to us on its own. Their reasoning goes something like this:

The main thing is to plan work, and you can rest in between.

The problem is this: if we haven't set aside time in advance to rest, we may not be able to get a good rest at all.

Firstly, Parkinson's law says that work tends to occupy all the time available to us. If we do not set boundaries, it can easily "take away" our breaks, leisure hours, and even lunch and dinner.

Secondly, we usually perceive unplanned vacations as "illegal". We can't fully relax and continue to think about the work at hand, feeling stressed and tense.

The best solution is to rigidly fix rest blocks in your daily routine.


GROW is a basic coaching tool and methodology for achieving goals

🎯 The acronym comes from the names of the four stages: Goals, Reality, Opportunities, and What to do, Will.

The specific sequence of questions helps to increase your understanding of what you are striving for, your current situation and your beliefs, your capabilities and resources, and the actions you need to take to achieve your personal and professional goals.


Do Less Philosophy

❇️ The "Do Less" philosophy is very popular in today's reality. Different authors offer different approaches. For example, Marc Lesser wrote a book called "Achieving More by Doing Less," based on Zen Buddhism.

❇️ His "doing less" manifesto begins by refuting the claim that reducing workload makes employees lazy and negatively affects their productivity. When we do fewer tasks, we can enjoy our accomplishments.

❇️ Marc Lesser recommends finding a few minutes during the workday to meditate. This evens out your breathing, you'll come to your senses, get rid of stress, and be able to concentrate better on the task at hand.

❇️ Don't forget to prioritize. Do important tasks first, and then move on to low-priority ones. Don't overload yourself with a large number of tasks: it's better to do less but of high quality and with pleasure than more, but without enthusiasm.


Habitica

A popular free service that helps you turn your life into a real RPG game. Here you'll earn experience and gold for completing tasks and maintaining good habits, fighting bosses, boosting your character, collecting artefacts and even getting pets.

The service has both web and smartphone versions, so your challenges will always be at your fingertips.


Prepare yourself and your space for work

🗂 Organize your workplace, apartment, and mind accordingly. Get rid of everything unnecessary, old that has not been used for a long time, clear the space for the possibility of the arrival of everything new in your life.

☑️ Order, even relative, structures thoughts and greatly reduces the time spent looking for something.


3 ways to do everything today so you can get more done tomorrow

1⃣ Identify the most urgent tasks and accomplish them at the peak of your activity. Rethink your daily routine — find and eliminate all the factors that waste your precious time. Start keeping track of how you use your hours and minutes.

2⃣ Find your peak time — do you know what time of day your productivity is at its highest? If you've never thought about it, it's no wonder you don't get anything done. For most people, productivity peaks between 8 a.m. and 12 a.m.

3⃣ Make the most of it — see time not as a given, but as a resource you invest in creating a product. Evaluate its real value and decide whether it's worth doing X if it takes you at least 30 minutes.

❇️ Streamlining your work will save resources and effort.


How not to get confused by developing a habit

The answer is simple: use an online organiser! Enter a recurring event of 21 repetitions for each habit. Select start dates with end dates so that you don't make or break more than 2 or 3 habits at a time.

But many people have a question: How do you get used to the organiser itself?

Actually, this is the first habit that we recommend developing, so that the rest of the planning will go easier. Make it a habit to write down ideas, thoughts and plans in the organiser when they arise.

It is also an important skill to make a list every morning of the nearest things to do and calendar events planned for the day.


Willpower: What is it and where to look for it?

💪 Willpower is the ability to say "no" to your impulses. However, your willpower is not just used to resist temptation, but in every decision you make.

What seems to be a behavioral problem, "I don't have willpower," is actually a situational problem, "My willpower is low because I had a hard day." This can be called decision fatigue, which knocks people down when forming new healthy habits.

How do you maximize your willpower? Catch two ways:

🔸 Pay attention to new habits as early in the day as possible: self-control is proven to be highest in the morning, and it falls steadily by evening.

🔸 Use routine to make decision-making easier: automate payments, systematize or delegate cooking and cleaning, decide in advance what you'll wear tomorrow - in general, spare your brain from making lots of small, insignificant decisions.


The SMART-goal methodology: how to set goals that work

🎯 To work more effectively, you should initially set the goal correctly. This is especially true for large-scale projects, the implementation of which will take a lot of time and resources.

📌 This system is optimal for the initial stage of work, not for the daily routine.


Standards of the day

This is a technique to help maintain a high level of self-discipline and productivity.

Its essence is to make a list of requirements (standards) that must be met for each day lived, and try to comply with these requirements.

✔️ Step 1: Make a list of standards.

Think about: Under what conditions is your day effective? What rules must you follow and what tasks must you accomplish?

There should not be many standards: 3 to 7 are sufficient. Only write down what is really important and helps you to achieve your goals.

✔️ Step 2: Create "quests".
We now need to convert our standards into daily tasks ("quests").

✔️ Step 3: Mark your effective days.
Mark the days in your calendar when all the "quests" have been completed. If at least one 'quest' is not completed, the day cannot be marked.

✔️ Step 4: Raise your standards.
The Standards of the day technique can be an excellent self-development tool. With its help, we can gradually change our lifestyle and our habits.


What do I really want?

Everyone has an inner voice that whispers about desires and dreams. Reinforce it. Write down on post-it notes all the desires that arise in your head. Whatever they are — great, silly, strange, funny — write them down.

Some will be fleeting, and some will stick and resound in your head louder and more often. These are you and your true desires.

❗️Don't listen to what others say about what you want. If you want it, do it!

The second method goes the other way around. Get rid of everything you don't want or need to do. On a piece of paper, write down all the commitments, and beliefs, i.e. all the "shoulds" you have. Then answer yourself three questions for each "must":

Where did it come from?
❓Is it real?
❓Do I want to follow it?


Cross out all those beliefs that don't fit you. This way you will make time and space for the real you.


Autofocus

🔷 "Autofocus" was invented by productivity expert Mark Forster. This planning system is suitable for creative people who have a hard time following GTD.

🔷 Its gist: Write down all your to-dos in a notebook without any order. Then go through the list, select the ones that need to be done as soon as possible, and deal with them.

🔷 When the urgent tasks are done, get down to the ones you're more comfortable with right now. If you haven't finished something, move it to the end of the list, and come back to it later. And repeat these actions day after day.


The two-minute rule

The two-minute rule is a principle for dealing with new tasks proposed by David Allen, creator of the GTD system. It sounds like this 👇

If a task takes less than two minutes, it should be completed immediately.

In other words, such tasks should not be put off or scheduled in any way: they should just be done.

If necessary, you can use the rule of "three minutes" or even "five minutes". It all depends on the expediency and availability of time.


The GTD System

🗒 GTD (Getting Things Done) is a stress-free productivity system. It allows you to plan tasks efficiently and execute them organically.

GTD is based on the idea of freeing one's brain from remembering current tasks. To do this, all incoming information is transferred to an external medium, to paper, to apps.

The goal of the GTD system:

▫️ Gather all tasks into a logical, reliable system, not to keep tasks in your head, to write everything down

▫️ Train yourself to make decisions about what to do next

▫️ Set an effective reminder system

📍Managers of 40% of the Fortune 100 companies use the GTD system. Among them are Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, and Harvard University.


The Dilts Pyramid, which explains why you have exactly what you have

📍Before we move on to parsing the levels of the pyramid and looking for answers, you need to know a major trick: The answer to each level's question can be found at the level above.

For example, the question "What do I have?"

📍This level question is directly related to your household affairs, finances, family, and everything that relates to your environment. A reasonable question here would be why you have what you have. And to find the answer to that, you have to go to the level above. And so it is in each level.

📍Thus, if you correctly find the answers to all the questions posed, which are interrelated, you can identify the gaps in your present life. And as you know, it is much easier to improve yourself if you have a clear picture of your weaknesses.

Honest answers to the Dilts pyramid questions can improve the life of any of us.

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