Two Time-Based Strategies to Boost your Productivity

We all strive to be more productive. We try countless hacks, tricks to increase productivity, but we come to a realisation that there is no one road to productivity; everybody has hacks that work for them, and sometimes, it works only for them. So, all I’m doing is throwing two more tips into your arsenal for you to test.

The first is the five-minute starter rule.  It’s simple; set a stopwatch, not a timer, for 5 minutes. Decide to work for 5 minutes and start working. While a timer would ring at the end of 5 minutes, a stopwatch will not, and before you know it, you are in your flow state or perhaps forgot the stopwatch due to the intensity of the work. It relies on the concepts of Activation Energy, the initial effort required to start a task, and the Zeigarnik Effect, which suggests you have a compulsion to finish a task once started. This is great to get on a task but as I mentioned before, it doesn’t work for everyone. If the task is particularly mundane, you will keep checking and only do the work for 5 minutes, hindering progress on your projects. My suggestion would be to use this for projects that actually interest you, and you just have a problem of starting. 

While this post may seem short, I feel the next tip will make it too long, so let’s save it for tomorrow. Bye.