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Written by Alan
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
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5 tips to become more productive, or, why I get nothing done. Read blogs and manuals on becoming more productive. The best ones are usually in the form of “10 tips”, “Top five”, or “33 ways to.” Rarely do they all have the same advice, so make sure to read as many as possible. Anytime one may mention something like effort or discipline or “real personal change” ignore it, the author is required to mention this in passing in order to be considered “knowledgeable” and thus get hits on their site. Check out the other articles on the productivity/motivation blog. Once you're done reading the “10 tips” entry it will be clear that your lack of productivity is routed in some other personal issues or mental habits. You won't be able to be productive until you read about romance, goals and hygiene, you may even need a new career in order to become productive, best not to count that out too!
Visit Myspace.com, Youtube.com and Digg.com. Reading only about self improvement can be a bit of drag so there's no way you'll be in the mood to really produce after a few hours of reading top five tips to become productive. Write a message, watch some car crashes, listen to an indie band or get into a flame war over national politics. Once you do these things, you'll get that project done in no time. Make a list of all the things you want to accomplish today. Make it big, you can probably handle seven or eight new projects today, then put it right next to your keyboard. Once you're done checking all of your email accounts twice, and searching for a few computer terms you ran into and didn't know, look at the list and put it right back, and cross the largest project off (deciding not to do something is almost as good as getting it done). At this point, you should have a bit of a headache from your monitor, and it's probably very late, so there's a very good chance The Daily Show is on, if you don't have a 6-pack (which you probably don't since, after all you haven't gotten anything at all done today) get one and enjoy the show (note, don't get two, since The Daily Show is pretty good preparation for the corner bar* if you live in a state nice enough to let the bars stay open past 1am). *only if you've showered with in the past 24, no make it 48, hours
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