Thought this would be helpful for people who have trouble getting work done. It's been useful for me so thought I would pass it along.
Concept:
Block your work session into 90-minute blocks. From my personal experience, and reading about deep work, this seems to be the limit a person has for working on a task.
Execution:
The question becomes, how do block your time effectively?
The way I've been doing it is by using 2 critical apps:
1. Using a timer to actually time out your work session (I use e.gg Timer - a simple countdown timer)
2. Cold Turkey blocker
Timer - this is straight forward, it provides you with a countdown timer. Anything like it will do.
Cold Turkey - this is the key to success. Use this app to block all the noise. You can schedule blocks if you're very disciplined with your day, or you can just turn the block on, but either way this will actually limit websites from loading on your browser.
Doing a session and have the urge to look at Facebook?
Can't, blocked by Cold Turkey.
Finding yourself ghost typing in zerohedge while writing?
Nope, not anymore.
Implementing this "productivity hack" has helped immensly with just getting the work done.
Hopefully this helps.
For the sake of credit, I got this idea from the Ikario team, but I thought it would be useful for this community too.
Concept:
Block your work session into 90-minute blocks. From my personal experience, and reading about deep work, this seems to be the limit a person has for working on a task.
Execution:
The question becomes, how do block your time effectively?
The way I've been doing it is by using 2 critical apps:
1. Using a timer to actually time out your work session (I use e.gg Timer - a simple countdown timer)
2. Cold Turkey blocker
Timer - this is straight forward, it provides you with a countdown timer. Anything like it will do.
Cold Turkey - this is the key to success. Use this app to block all the noise. You can schedule blocks if you're very disciplined with your day, or you can just turn the block on, but either way this will actually limit websites from loading on your browser.
Doing a session and have the urge to look at Facebook?
Can't, blocked by Cold Turkey.
Finding yourself ghost typing in zerohedge while writing?
Nope, not anymore.
Implementing this "productivity hack" has helped immensly with just getting the work done.
Hopefully this helps.
For the sake of credit, I got this idea from the Ikario team, but I thought it would be useful for this community too.
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