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05 September 2011

brilliant productivity epiphany i swear this sounds simple but i've been using it to motivate myself and it totally works! I'm like if I'm going to take enough time out to do something _anyway_, I might as well do difficult things at full capacity. If you're just treading water you might as well be sleeping or going out or watching TV etc anyway

post by: Firas at: 10:51 | 2 comments

Yeah. I remember when I had the (incredibly DUH) realisation that even if i put something that I didn't want to do off... it was still on me to do it eventually anyway so I might as well get it over and done with.

Only took me 34 years to figure that one out.

posted by gaspode 05 September | 11:33

yeah gaspode. I mean that doesn't really connect with my lizard brain immediately cause there are still rewards to not doing something RIGHT NOW but I kinda found out something like this in high school like if you have 3 weeks to do something and you don't do it till the last day you might as well just have had a day

I can't lie part of my productivity motivation is just financial, as a freelancer if I do something in two days means I can fit other things in the next four days (+ move on to larger projects) so I can tweak my effective hourly rate really dramatically just by virtue of how I spend my time.

posted by Firas 05 September | 14:34

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