April 29th, 2009 | Posted in productivity
For most of people, clock is used to manage time. They plan everything according to the indication of the clock. Every day is divided into hours, minutes and so on.
For me, I come to reduce the use of clock, especially on using it to manage time.
Once completing setting a fixed time, I always feel nervous. I don’t like dividing every day into hours, and then put things into these hour-blocks. Every time I do this, I feel bad. So I decided to make a change.
Now I only use clock as a reminder. I only set reminders for very important or must-do things. In most cases, I close my clock and everything related with time. I only focus on my to-do things list today.
In my opinion, we shall manage activities instead of time, because time can’t be managed. And another reason is I believe time is relative.
Many people have the same experience with me: sometimes, we have finished much work, but when we check the time used, the result astonishes us. we couldn’t believe that we just spent so little time.
About time, I have 3 ideas to share:
1. time is relative
The one minute in others’ eyes may be one hour in your experience. you must try to believe this and enjoy this. You are in charge of your experience, no exception for time.
Don’t focus on the time on your clock, focus on that in your mind.
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January 26th, 2009 | Posted in productivity
Everyone has his own ways to boost productivity. For me, the most frequently used 3 tips are:
1 list to-do things and sub-things
Once making clear our desires, it is relatively easy to list big stones every day. There is no need to complete all the things. For me, it is a lovely day too if I can step on the way to my desires.
I usually make the TO-Do list in the morning just after I wake up and appreciation process. Generally speaking, in the appreciation process, I will mentally appreciate my desires and related people and things. This is also a process of recalling my desires.
After the process, I first list 2 or 3 things to do on my desires and make positive affirmation for them. After I have breakfast, I will list extra 3 things and begin the process of sub-to-do list making.
It is interesting to make sub-to-do list using imindmap. About sub-to-do list, StevePavallia has written a excellent post explaining it. If you don’t know about imindmap, you can get information here.
I always take the to-do list and sub-to-do list making as parts of inspired actions.
2 focus and keep simplify
I will try to only focus on one thing in the list at a time once beginning work. Usually I use 3 sub-tips to keep simplify:
Usually I only have a computer, a notebook and a ball-pen on the desk.
- Clean my computer desktop
I don’t like drop too much shortcuts on the desktop. instead, I try to keep as few as possible of them.
as to the wallpaper, I usually use my self made affirmation picture as the background. It is simple but informative for me.
- Reduce the routines that run concurrently
To do this is not because I have not enough ram to run. I only run necessary applications concurrently.
3 record progress
Have you once enjoyed the feeling of crossing of completed tasks?
I really like that feeling.
It is a virtuous cycle. I cross off one task, and then the left tasks get less. The less tasks left, the more focus I become.
After I beginning to use the law of attraction, I spend more time on affirmation and creative visualization before beginning of tasks. The biggest income for me to do these is I usually get some inspired ideas to complete my tasks in the list.
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