you haven't mentioned your goals here anywhere - do you have any that you're pursuing? Working harder should be a means to an end (pursuing a passion, advancing a career, etc) and it's much harder to work hard on something without having a reason to do so. Also, arguably pointless.
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#12Find a purpose that drives you. Volunteer your time, start a business, have kids, get another degree, build a house start to finish. From the purpurse, the desire to get thinks done and associated time management will follow. Jobs can serve the function of having a purpose, but can also not be sufficient. Do something hard, not easy.
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#13Go see a doctor and discuss ADD.
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#143 months ago I started waking up at the same time every day, and immediately having a breakfast with good amount of healthy fat. It’s been a game changer for my consistency. Some days are more productive than others, but in general I hardly ever have the useless days I used to have where i couldn’t seem to get anything done. I initially had a hard time waking up on time, but I got the philips Hue smart bulbs and the…
what are you eating for the healthy fat?
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#15Find a purpose that drives you. Volunteer your time, start a business, have kids, get another degree, build a house start to finish. From the purpurse, the desire to get thinks done and associated time management will follow. Jobs can serve the function of having a purpose, but can also not be sufficient. Do something hard, not easy.
Heck: for what it’s worth. If you or anyone else on HN is interested: I’m in college right now working part time, so I’m low on spare time, but I come up with seemingly profitable business ideas pretty regularly. If you want something to work on, drop me a line and we could discuss starting a side gig. I contribute leadership / project management, you contribute operations/ getting stuff done, split 50/50.
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#16You might find it helpful to make to-do lists and only work on one thing at a time. By limiting your work in progress and context switching you might find that you don't need to work as many hours in order to get the same results.
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#17Surrender to yourself. Acknowledge your limits and accept them. Know that you are enough and you are not the hours that you work or the effort you put into things. You are not your works. Through surrender and acceptance you'll allow yourself to stop focusing on how you aren't doing enough and instead reframe into a perspective of gratitude for what you are doing and can do.
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#18TBH bullet journaling has been great for me. Making monthly, daily, and future logs has dramatically increased my productivity/anxiety.
I used to keep all these thoughts cluttered in my head and then they became blockers because if I did one I'd be thinking about the other.
While I use it to organize my thoughts and put plan to action, some may use it just an outlet for whatever.
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#19This was my life in college and I eventually realized I just had an above average prioritization mechanism. If it doesn't really matter, and I don't feel like doing it, it's not getting done.
It's actually pretty productive at baseline since I can do the things that do matter lightning fast, so if you're like that, just try to do more things/more varied things (for example start a class not related to your job or get a second job not in the same field). (Also different/more intense physical activity. I don't know if you're like that but I'm a standard issue adrenaline junkie in addition to having selective motivation.)
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#20It really takes obsession, you have to be obsessed with what you do to output > 40-50 hour work weeks. <—- this is excluding extremely high pay which can be another motivator albeit a short term motivator