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Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tricks
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#32At work? I struggle there too.
At home doing my own coding? Light beer(as light as i can get, i want to take the edge off, not get drunk), a movie/music on the tv that i have seen/heaed a lot before.
Honestly the drink is a crutch, but i cant program more than once a week, so it seems to work for me. (Time constraints due to work/wife), but in my current project helps me relax enough, forget about my dayjob and focus for 3-4 hours.
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#33Here's what works for achieving extreme levels of hyper-creativity and hyper-productivity for me. Will it work for you? Yes. Will you do it? No, you will find endless excuses to call the below "impossible". Still, for anyone who dares, here it is: 1. Get as much sleep as you can. Consistently. Yes, it's counter-intuitive. Yes, you'll have fewer waking hours. But those few hours will be many times more productive and…
Been lucky enough to be following pretty much exactly this list recently. I confirm that it can work, in the sense of making you very productive, but it is also just a very enjoyable and fulfilling way to live. Yes, you have to earn money, and yes this can be an issue, but I think that a lot of companies lose out a lot by making it impossible for people to take this kind of approach in a more standard employment situation.
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#34I like to take walks. Sometimes when there is too much going on, I'm a little too restless or I just can't focus. I'll just get up and go for a short walk, try to clear my head, maybe tire myself out a bit. Usually gets me a little more relaxed.
A few decades back when I still smoked cigarettes, I really enjoyed simply getting out of the office on a periodic basis to gain perspective. No more cigarettes, but I still stand up and walk around the block. Still works great.
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#35- Good ergonomy of workstation (not staying crouched on a laptop computer for example)
- Find your most productive times of the day and manage your day around it
- Take notes and have yourself be notified (for important stuff) instead of polling (unless the frequency is too big, then poll for a large time
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#36Here's what works for achieving extreme levels of hyper-creativity and hyper-productivity for me. Will it work for you? Yes. Will you do it? No, you will find endless excuses to call the below "impossible". Still, for anyone who dares, here it is: 1. Get as much sleep as you can. Consistently. Yes, it's counter-intuitive. Yes, you'll have fewer waking hours. But those few hours will be many times more productive and…
> Ideally, 1/3 of the year should be spent on vacation time
Show me one office job, where you have 4 months vacation.
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#37Here's what works for achieving extreme levels of hyper-creativity and hyper-productivity for me. Will it work for you? Yes. Will you do it? No, you will find endless excuses to call the below "impossible". Still, for anyone who dares, here it is: 1. Get as much sleep as you can. Consistently. Yes, it's counter-intuitive. Yes, you'll have fewer waking hours. But those few hours will be many times more productive and…
Did you get that list from some TED, Accelerator Speech or a book? Because it ain't realistic for 90% of the 'population'... which means it's unrealistic and pretty much useless.
The list is mostly mine (I didn't get it from anywhere), although I have, of course, been influenced by people who are more successful than me.
The most relevant influence is perhaps Dan Sullivan from Strategic Coach. The bit where you pick the top 2 tasks and drop everything else I picked up from a Warren Buffet book a few years ago.
I fully agree with you - a lot of this is not practical for the vast majority of the population. I'm obviously no Warren Buffet, so I also don't have the luxury of doing this all the time. All I'm saying is that when I DO stick to this plan as much as possible, the results are amazing.
It takes a lot of courage to NOT do things that you think you MUST do but HATE doing. Once you blast through this fear, though, you will literally see miracles happen.
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#38Here's what works for achieving extreme levels of hyper-creativity and hyper-productivity for me. Will it work for you? Yes. Will you do it? No, you will find endless excuses to call the below "impossible". Still, for anyone who dares, here it is: 1. Get as much sleep as you can. Consistently. Yes, it's counter-intuitive. Yes, you'll have fewer waking hours. But those few hours will be many times more productive and…
> Ideally, 1/3 of the year should be spent on vacation time Show me one office job, where you have 4 months vacation.
Can't do this with an office job (even if you did get 4 months vacation).
Re: Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tricks
#39Call a friend once a day at roughly the same time. Catch up on what you two have been up to, talk about what you've accomplished in the last 24 hours, and discuss what you'd like to get done before the next call. No app or self-help book could ever replace the shame from letting down someone you respect.
calling isn't cool anymore , we want to be cool.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you get that list from some TED, Accelerator Speech or a book? Because it ain't realistic for 90% of the 'population'... which means it's unrealistic and pretty much useless.
Wait what? Which steps are impossible for 90% of the population?
Not a lot of people can spend 1/3 of a year on vacation. I'm in Sweden and I consider my vacation time pretty generous (6 weeks per year), but still, I'm still nowhere near 1/3 of a year.