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Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit: Scientific American
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At the end of the 20th century, psychologists began studying the so-called big five personality traits that blend to describe any human being: conscientiousness, agreeableness, neuroticism, openness and extroversion.
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“avoidance procrastinator” to describe a person for whom avoidance is the prime motivator.
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Lessons from GE's Approach to Personal Productivity - Harvard Business Online's HBR Editors' Blog
This article is a great companion article to Womack's article: Foru steps to actually accomplishing tasks and deciding which not to pursue for businesses, although the principles definitely apply to individual as well. <blockquote>Label the purpose of every regular or recurring activity on your quarterly calendar and highlight those activities that are connected with your top five priorities. This simple exercise will reveal where you’re squandering your time.</blockquote>
Back To Work: Making Time for the MITs (Most Important Things)
Jason Womack offers some great basic advice for actually, well, <em>getting things done</em>. Maybe none of the other links on here matter if you don't have the process right? <blockquote>Instead of focusing on having the “right” time management tool or the “perfect” system, place your focus on the process.</blockquote>
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Instead of focusing on having the “right” time management tool or the “perfect” system, place your focus on the process.
tasktoy
TaskToy is a simple and elegant ToDo list manager. I've used/am using <a href="http://www.rememberthemilk.com">Remember the Milk</a>, <a href="http://todoist.com/">ToDoist</a>, and even <a href="http://www.abstractspoon.com/tdl_resources.html">ToDoList</a>. But I like TaskToy for its customizability and usefulness. Not only does TaskToy offer robust ToDo list management, but also a dead simple notes system, a place for links, and built-in Google search.
What’s the Next Distraction?
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Procrastination is more than not doing priority tasks; it’s doing non-priority tasks.
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Write down any tasks that takes longer than two minutes. As per the Two Minute Rule, if something occurs to you that you feel compelled to act on immediately, consciously ask yourself, “Can I do this in less than two minutes?” If it’s reasonably likely that the answer is yes, do it right then to prevent it from consuming further attention; if not write it down to prevent it from consuming further attention.
A Pattern Language for Productivity, Pattern #10: Context Lists
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My contexts are:
@Home
@Office
@Errands
@Waiting - Home
@Waiting - OfficeI keep them in a single Excel sheet with four columns:
Task | Project | Context | Done (date/blank)
Not glamorous, but lightning fast to use with Excel’s built-in autocomplete and filtering, and it keeps a chronological record per project with almost zero effort. Great for reviewing.
Feature: How to Stop Checking Email on the Evenings and Weekends
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Have an email-checking schedule and do not deviate.
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ending the day with nothing to show for it.
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The Best Advice My (Nutty) Karate Teacher Ever Gave Me at LifeClever ;-) Tips for Design and Life
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Are there any obstaces in your life that seem immovable? Focus your energy on the tiniest part you can pinpoint. Even slight movement of a seemingly intractable problem can set off a chain of events leading to a resolution.
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