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How to stay productive?

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Jan1997
Profile Blog Joined April 2013
Norway671 Posts
July 12 2019 20:31 GMT
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I feel the need to write something tonight. It's nothing special, I just have some thoughts...



Like many others, I have certain tasks per day, per week, per month that I want to/need to do. Some of it is work related, some of them are hobbies, and some of them are neccesary to live a good life.

Productivity is the essence of gettings things done, on time, the right way.

The path to get there however is not so easy. Some say that humans were not created to be lazy. I reckon that's probably true, but then why is it so easy to do nothing.

That's what I wonder....


I get stuck a lot.

I get into a problem, that I can't solve. It could be anything, unsure of track design in a map editor, stuck on a code in a program, a script that wont run, a directory that I can't find...

It's so easy to get stuck and when the options run low it's easy to become unproductive, when your head spins around looking for a potential solution 50 million times and it turns out it's not it. & you still can't find the right path to success.

That is a problem.

There's a saying that says in order to finish first, first you have to finish.

Many projects that are started are never finished, because people can't find the right solutions.

I remember in 2014...

I sat up a game server. In a game called CSS. I spent 4-5 hours troubleshooting the whole thing before I got it up and running. That was a super small scale project, and yet it takes a bit of effort.

Effort is great. You want to be successfull you better start off with the one thing you can control...

Your effort.

I don't know what I'm writing right now.

I just want to say, in todays age with so many distractions it's hard to stay productive. I have many things I want to do, but many projects stagnate. Time is spent on other stuff. Things are forgotten etc.

Sometimes lack of motivation comes from lack of reason. To have a why is a key step to figure out why you should move forward in the first place.

If you don't know where to go you'll eventually end up somewhere you didn't want to go to.


Take it or leave it for what it is.

Thanks for reading this chaos.



Do something today that your future self will be thankful for.
EsportsJohn
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4883 Posts
July 16 2019 08:34 GMT
#2
An important concept in productivity and work efficiency is "work overflow", which is basically the understanding that some things that could be done today are instead rolled over into the next day because you simply don't have enough time to do everything that day. Write down a list of things that you need to do for the day, and then separate them out into essential and non-essential. The essential stuff is stuff you HAVE to get done while non-essential stuff is basically allotted to the free time you have left. If you don't get done with the non-essential things, roll them into the next day as a do-first non-essential item. If an essential item takes too long, shelf it for the next day and move on to other tasks; it's better to fail at getting one thing done than succeed in getting only one done.

It can be tempting to tell yourself "do more, do more" and feel like a failure if you don't keep improving and meet the expectations you set for yourself. The way forward is accepting that there simply isn't enough time to do everything at once. If you hit a brick wall trying to solve a problem, spend some time trying to solve that problem, but don't let it kill your productivity in other areas.

I work in a kitchen, so the "productivity" and "efficiency" are things that I think a lot about.
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