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Limit Visits To Time-Wasting Websites And Give Your Willpower A Break You can make your goals more likely to happen by doing the same thing that large corporations pay billions of dollars for — and it will cost you roughly five bucks, or even nothing.
Productivity guru David Allen — he of the popular Getting Things Done productivity system — writes at the New York Times about how for many of us technology seems like it’s overwhelming and damaging our productivity. His solution: a five-step approach to prioritising your focus.
Dear Lifehacker, I need a little help focusing. I know part of it is just a lack of discipline, but I can’t help but kill time on sites like Facebook and even Lifehacker during the day when I should be working and getting things done. You guys post lots of great productivity tips, but how do I get myself focused and away from distractions enough to put them to good use?
Getting Things Done (GTD) is one of the most popular productivity methods and Evernote among the most popular note-taking tools for Lifehacker readers. The Secret Weapon merges these two into one system so you can achieve your goals.
In order to get your best work done, you need to buckle down, eliminate as many distractions as possible, and focus on each task at a time as much as possible. However, few of us have the luxury to wall ourselves off from the world all day.
One of the fundamental principles of GTD is that you should be able to quickly look at your list of to-dos and easily see what your next items are and what you’re currently working on, all wrapped up in a service that makes it easy to enter your ideas and to-dos. Pegby is a new web app that’s designed with that goal in mind.
If you made New Year resolutions, chances are that if you’re not already failing, you will be soon. In the end, most people do. I know I fail. What’s worse, you’re probably undermining your resolutions and don’t even know it. Here’s how I put an end to my resolution sabotage.
A clear desk surface with no visual clutter might make you more productive, but what about all of the stuff you need for work like pens and paper? Bill Meade at RestartGTD has a clever solution: hide them behind your monitor.
Sometimes (or maybe all too often), you have to churn out work — good, creative work done with tight deadlines. The Done Manifesto is a set of working rules based on a sense of urgency. No time for careful deliberation, move on.
I’ve never had myself tested for ADD, but I know for sure that I’m very easily distracted. The fact that my job requires me to sit in front of the computer with an Internet connection all day means that tempting trajectories (“I wonder if YouTube has a commercial for Six Finger?… Yep!“) are just a click away. For years I suffered with distractions that diminish my daily productivity. But in the last year or so I’ve refined a simple system to keep me on track throughout the day.
