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Triple Your Productivity Tomorrow
Posted by Kyle Pott at 3:00 AM on December 23, 2007
Productivity and lifestyle blogger, Scott Young, drastically boosts his productivity by scheduling "Project-Kill Days." The night before a Project-Kill Day Scott makes sure to create a fixed to-do list, blocks off as much of the day as possible, and chooses an isolated location. The following morning Scott gets up early and begins working long and hard on his biggest rocks. The caveat to the Project-Kill Day is that Scott creates a false sense of urgency to help stay motivated. This means no distractions and absolutely no mid-task breaks.
When I face this problem [a stressful and demanding workload], my answer is to take on what I like to call a Project-Kill Day. This is a day where I am at my most productive state. I set aside large amounts of time to kill off the projects on my to-do list and get ahead. I've found, if you plan it properly, you can make tomorrow up to 3 times as productive as ordinary days.Scott's approach to productivity isn't that far fetched. Is it possible to make everyday a Project-Kill Day? Sign me up.
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pdok
Posted 10:48 AM 22/12/07
Sounds like procrastination to me.
Anything worth doing, is worth doing tomorrow.
pdok
Bakari
Posted 12:00 PM 22/12/07
The tips he includes are good. I would had:
1. Start off with a good breakfast
2. Maybe clean your work space the day or night before. A poorly organized workspace always lows me down.
3. Close your web browser unless you really need it for specific tasks.
Bakari
waffles
Posted 2:17 PM 22/12/07
If everyday was like that I would die. Really, I'd rather just work on things a little along the way. Nobody says you have to get everything finished at once.
waffles
drlith
Posted 5:05 AM 23/12/07
I think his tips are sensible, but if he can actually triple his productivity using them, then his baseline productivity has got to be pretty pathetic. It seems like it's geared toward the "young and restless" set, who are perfectly capable of spending a day accomplishing precisely zero. Me? On a typical day I actually accomplish quite a bit. (Pats self on back.) Nevertheless, to-do lists, random chores, and projects still manage to pile up.
drlith
Devon
Posted 4:56 PM 23/12/07
@DRLITH: I think it really depends on what sort of work you do. I'm not lazy, but the nature of my day job means that I spend vast portions of my day on conference calls, fighting fires, mentoring developers as needed, providing advice or estimates based on e-mail or calls within an hour or two, etc... It's essential to the project, but does fill most of the day with unplanned tasks.
Spending a day with the phone off, the e-mail client shut down, no calls or meetings, etc... lets me really crank through some of the other things that pile up on my todo lists (writing code, authoring an architecture document, researching some technology, etc...), so I think his advice is very good.
Devon
monoself
Posted 2:18 AM 23/12/07
yeah, "no day but today" - rent
Everyone needs relax! I've made my Saturday "PC Game day" while the next Sunday "Homework kill day"...
monoself