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The 1 Hack That I Use To Increase My Productivity: 30 Minute Rule
I wanted to be more productive in achieving my goals. I would continually delay starting.
This 1 change, made a world of difference for my productivity.
Let Me Explain:
All too often I have been the victim of it being 22 minutes past the hour and instead of commencing what I want to do instantly, I permitted myself to wait until the top of the hour.
It is more often than not when the top of the hour occurs I have already descended into another task and delayed my commencement of the original task by a further hour and the cycle repeats itself. Likely until it doesn’t get achieved or it becomes a mad dash before I can allow myself to go to sleep.
This inbuilt mindset that I had regarding the commencement of projects meant that I was permanently going easy on myself and wasting the one resource that is unable to be replenished: Time.
I knew that I had to change my mindset around how I approached this. My days were wasted until the next hour had to end.
I decided to change my time horizons from hourly to half-hourly.
Writing it here makes it sound trivial, yet this mindset shift has been the reason that I have…