Since my previous article on lifehacks was a success. Let's start the year with more productivity tips! 17. Track Goal and Metrics 🥅 See part 1 here. Goals and objectives are important. But without tracking they are useless. Progress metrics, and goal replanning, are keys. It's never all-or-nothing! Don't plan and abandon! 18. Build Habits 🏃 Surgeon Maxwell Maltz found out to create a new habit. it takes about 21 days It takes at least about 21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to harden. Creating (or removing) a habit is straightforward. Repeat 21 days (streak). Fake it till you make it. 19. Focus 👁️ If the product is free, are the product. you Attention is asset your When you use website/application/soft and try to do A, there will be a lot of alerts, banners, messages and clickbaits prompting you to do B/C/D, etc. Be like Ulysses, don't listen to Mermaids! 20. Disable notifications questions 🔕 Notifications are our enemy. But notification prompts are also a Foe. Disable at all, on mobile or web. Notifications Requests 21. Embrace Change 🦋 Have clear goals but manage goals. Revisit them often. Don't stick to the plan. There's no plan Set aims and change direction if necessary 22 Summon the ! 👾 Panic Monster To avoid Procrastination set daily goals with artificial hard deadlines. I try to write daily articles even though they are very far from perfect. Fake deadline: today. 23: Avoid Twitter trends 🤐 (web hack) Go to “Explore” under “Home” Click the wheel at the right of the “Search Twitter” box. Click “Explore Locations”. Pick a country (like ). St Kitts Now the “What’s Happening” will only display content for the location (empty). You will only see your timeline. 25. Auto Deadlines 🔫 Use to your advantage. Even if you don’t have a real deadline on a task, set one for yourself. time limits Knowing that you only have four hours left, will help ensure you don’t waste an hour of it on social media. 26. Set goals 👩🏾‍🔬 SMART pecific S easurable M ttainable A elevant R ime-bound T Write your goals as Sentences: SMART 27. Drastic Measures 🐱‍🚀 Auto-block some distraction websites. Use or similar to keep you off social media or news BlockSite Block site IPs on hosts.txt or similar. Cut off internet using router rules. Go to an internet void zone in the wild. Engage on a goal-based group to be accountable. This list is far from finished. But my autodeadline was today. Hopefully, some draft tips will be out next week! Also published on: https://maximilianocontieri.com/10-more-simple-tips-to-boost-your-productivity-x2-2021-guide

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