Anyone have a unique system for being productive?
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Anyone have a unique system for being productive?
Anyone have a unique system for being productive?
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pomodoro technique
That's not unique that the most popular method
Been doing this for the last 7 hours and just got through about 2 weeks of house work and about to start the organizing and paper work phase. Weirdly effective stuff with something to listen to at least.
Shove a prostate vibrator up your ass, set it to max intensity then turn it on for a minute after completing a task so you Pavlov your monkey brain. Jeff Bezos does
finally someones making sense
I just wake up and know I have a list of things I have to get done and my goal is to have that done as fast as possible so I can do nothing.
i have a lot of thoughts about this topic and things that i do, but before typing it all out, can you explain what you mean by "being productive"?
completing chores?
not being a coach potato and, instead, working toward your goals?
something else?
For me being productive just means doing a task that you don't want to do. If you're not doing one of those tasks you aren't being productive.
i don't have an easy answer, but i definitely know what this is like, and this is what works for me:
- first off, don't be too hard on yourself if you're not being "super productive". i find that i can only do one or two big things that i don't want to do each day.
- second, when you finally get around to doing the thing that you don't want to do, after you do it, think about how you can change something to make it less unenjoyable or, even, enjoyable. like this guy:
I listen to funny Livestream when I'm working out and do chores
the problem I have is that there is an unending list of tasks... when I was younger there was a clear, definable list of things to do. Do that and you are good to go.
The trappings of owning your own home, and other bullshit complexities. faaarrkkk. I can never relax. EVER.
Cool pic btw.
Wake up at 5am.
I do this also. I'm up by 4:30-5 to hit the gym, walk dog, shower have coffee rdy to work @7. Time flies till noonish when I have first meal of day, then I slowly become less productive over the afternoon till I quit around 4-5. Who I am in the morning feels like a different person than me in the afternoon, so in hindsight it doesn't even feel like me that's doing the work in the morning. This also gives me a deadline to sleep at night of 9-10 pm becsuse if I dont I know I will feel like utter shit the next day. A set sleep schedule makes it easier to plan out the rest of the day knowing when it's going to end.
Over time focus and work habits will build along with your routine.
Worse case, successfully dragging your ass out of bed and hitting the gym at 5 am is in itself an accomplishment, so you have that positive momentum going for the rest of the day. It will feel like a win even if you do nothing else with your time that day
pomidori technique
Put a gun in your mouth and wear a dress
Not unique but I just schedule things and stick to it.
I have almost every hour of my day that I'm not sleeping or at work i have at least one thing to do except past 7pm on Friday to Monday morning is free.
Sometimes it's something as simple as do the dishes. Sometimes it's organize drawers or cupboards that are out of order, reply to family emails, clean some portion of a room like toilet, shower, living room floor, dust the blinds, clean the sinks. Larger tasks broken into their smaller tasks and scattered across the week in a mostly random order. It never feels like much but it gets done. Assuming you have 6 or 7 hours a day at home you're not sleeping you have at bare minim 36 things you can do some of which aren't nessisary more than every other week.
Become a stationery freak. Get a quality notebook and a quality mechanical pencil. You should spend like $50 on just a notebook and a pencil. Throw it in your bag and take it with you places. Sit down and write neatly and legibly and use it to organize your thoughts on how you're going to plan the next day, month, quarter, half-year, year, 5 years, etc.
You know, like those EDC guys? It gets excessive with the shit like carrying around knives and calculators and this and that, just keep it simple.
First step: you need to establish that you can punish yourself. Like, knowingly miss a task and then do something you hate as a punishment (skip a meal or something).
Second step: every time you need to get something done, channel an inner you to command yourself. "Anon, do this thing." And reply, "Yes, sir." Then get straight to work.
Establish authority and seniority and enforce it through punishments.
you're need a nice solid un-lacquered table and some opiates. you need a solid nine pound hammer and some big nails. you will then take your scrotum and stretch it as far away from you as you can. nail number one goes in there. then you grab the remaining sack and pull it west, one more nail. then east, one more big nail. this one, you have probably learned some things about yourself by this time, the electric bolts of fear and pain ripping up your shaft, spine, brain stem. you pulse is probably racing and you have started storing everything you hear in your long term memory. this is one you're gonna tell the grandkids. if you have any humanity left in you, you're gonna swing that hammer high over your head and smash your actual testicle, hopefully hard enough to put a hole in the table. you will pass out. you will tear holes in your scrotum. you may tear part of your scrotum off. but the rest of the items on your todo list, those should be inconsequential to the biblical hammering you just delivered to your sex organs. that's real bedrock for your psyche to rest upon.
Develop a Heroic character.
To develop a Heroic character is to have the idea of looking to past examples of heroes both historical, fictional and semi-legendary, and then striving to be more like them in inspiration for your atitudes and moral fortitude while still remaining yourself, you do this in order to grow into your own heroic person, through this method you may gain focus and determination, cease procrastination and develop an iron will, if you do this constantly even if you fall short you will still be able to become a Demi-hero or someone who’s average in nature but still great and virtuous in character and action.
Put yourself in discomfort: beyond the lifting go practice some form of combat sport like boxing or wrestling, some martial art, go hunt animals in the rain, go camping and then when you get enough experience go camp in winter, by putting yourself in minor discomfort this works as a antidote to the harsh challenges of life, understand that when hardship comes this is God pairing you with a trial so you may come out of it stronger like a coach who picks you a strong sparring partner, by having faith in God and developing yourself into a disciplined hero you can always be a stronger, kinder, more disciplined person.
I do martial arts already and it's very fulfilling but hasn't made me productive outside the gym. I'd like to go camping but there is no nature near me. Any other discomforts you would recommend?
Well if there’s no nature near you, you just need to pick a weekend and go to the nature: camping, hunting, fishing and kayaking are all very enjoyable, I don’t like rock climbing much because of how tired I get from lifting and my combat sports(BJJ,boxing,Muay Thai and karate currently) so I can’t muster the strength to free climb often, either way no matter what you do be sure to prepare properly for it but also when the day comes you may just have to get the backpack and just GO without thinking much about it, there’s a reason adventures tend to be sudden in books and that’s because they break a stagnant life, there’s other forms of “discomfort” one of them is manual work, I don’t mean back breaking menial labour that brings no fulfillment, I mean something like carpentry and blacksmithing(I do this one) there’s something very unique about the happiness that comes from making something with something else using tools with your hands, it’s a very unique fulfillment that can’t be seen anywhere else.
Gardening and agriculture as well as tending to animals are somewhat similar but for me they don’t get close to the joy of CRAFTING stuff, there’s also a certain feeling of accomplishment unique to mathematics that I can’t really explain but that only manifests in force if the mathematical calculations you’re doing serve a purpose, also don’t skip brain day and don’t skip church, they’re not discomforts per say but they help “unblock” certain things and bring about epiphanies that can’t really be conveyed properly by other means, God is the best advice, the second best when it comes to psychology is Dostoyevsky, although Jung is pretty close.
The best form to hyperfocus on smth is focus training, Theodore Roosevelt had interesting ways of condensing a lot of work in very little time by really getting a lot of shit done and it comes with an idea of “this shit won’t finish itself” you could look more into it.
Thank you for inspiring post. Why you do karate if you already do muay thai and boxing? No offense just curious
>The best form to hyperfocus on smth is focus training, you could look more into it.
Any recommendations?
It’s very affordable to train all that at the same time in my country so a lot of people practice more then one style if they have it in close proximity, I also find that they complement eachother, karate helps a lot with details, Muay Thai brings in the explosive strikes and boxing has the best foot work and dodges as well as a very deep notion of punches since it’s such a specialized style.
There’s a few yt channels that talk about focus training, if you look up Theodore Roosevelt’s method you should find a video on it, the Bioneer I think talks about it in an older video of his, his channel has a lot of good stuff, other channels I recommend are “bald Omni man” and “natural hypertrophy”
Goodspeed anon.
>bald omni man
My man.
Manic fervor, basically
Find a cause you're dedicated to, one you feel is extremely important, and dedicate everything you do to seeing that cause done. Alternatively, find a fantasy/role model to emulate and live as they do.
What first got me lifting was watching the Unbaised History of Rome on youtube and falling in love with the heroes of antiquity all over again, and then being ashamed of my disgusting physical state in comparison to them.
Basically trick yourself into thinking you represent something bigger than yourself and then focus on becoming better in the name of that higher purpose.
Helps if you're a self-hating misanthrope because it doesn't require you to believe in yourself, just to believe in... something. Anything.
I wake up at noon, have a protein bar and milk, watch YouTube for 30 min, code for 3 hours, run 2 miles, lift, shower, eat 1lb turkey sausage, decompress for an hour, then code for 4-5 hours. Then get high at night. Launching a crypto sportsbook very soon
Very simple but George & Lennie's strategy
I live like an absolute spartan and put every penny away, hustle like a madman for a future i'll likely never afford but hey it gets shit done.
If you are not productive it's because you don't really give a shit about the thing you're supposed to be productive in. No methods will change that.
Yes its called amphetamine
Make yourself bored, and only have your tasks available as relief. Remove all distractions and change your environment up, go to cafes or libraries if you have to so you're not in an environment you're usually relaxing in.