People warm up before lifting weights or brace themselves before watching the “Cats” butthole edit. Likewise, getting a bit of momentum going with some productivity dummy runs can prime you for peak goalsmashment. A weekly project list. This should contain everything that needs to go down in the next 7 days. Maybe you need to research which language to learn or which area to start your apartment search. Throw it in here. The same way you can’t fit a whole watermelon in your mouth at once but can demolish a slice in seconds flat, this bite-size approach to time management will make that feeling of completion much sweeter.

Once you have stated your intentions, take each of your goals and break them out into a series of smaller goals that you can accomplish each month throughout the year. Then, take it further and break it down into what you can handle a week at a time.

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Or even worse, it could lead to anxiety – you could even end up in the hospital if you push yourself too hard. Using the 80/20 Rule can help you out big time when trying to be productive and do the more important thing first. So, now I’ve given you possibly a pretty accurate account of how you’ve not been getting shit done on most days. Let’s talk about strategies to find your focus, prioritise your work and avoid being paralysed by indecision. Strategies to get shit done It’s also a useful way to make sure we get something important done every 24 hours and don’t just spend time decorating bits of paper with fancy highlighters.

I mean who looks at their schedule and jumps for joy when they see an action that will take up most of their day? no one that’s who, not one of us is doing that. The popular response for most of us in this situation is to become paralysed by the thought of “shit, this is going to take forever” and then procrastinate for the rest of the day. I used to work 100-hour weeks, pulling all-nighters and wearing my “hustle” as a badge of honour (believe me – I got shit done!). But, then I had kids, and my priorities changed BIG-time. Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest. Don’t rob yourself of the opportunity to bebrilliant by thinking that every idea you have has to be the most original, complicated and complex thing ever. It really, really doesn’t. 10. Ask for help No, we’re not dumping an application to a prestigious tech college on your plate. You have enough to deal with. Every master list has a few tasks on it that we’ve been meaning to do for days, weeks, or maybe even years but haven’t yet.So then what does the get shit done approach entail and how do people who adopt it manage to accomplish so much in a single day? Their “secret” isn’t coffee or energy drinks, but rather how they structure their daily tasks, organize their priorities, and leave absolutely nothing to chance. I hope you’ve found this post helpful. You have so much to give the world, you have a story that the world needs to hear, and you can do things only you can do. I want to live in a world where your work, your creations and the things that make you uniquely you exist.