How Phones are designed to be addicting. (and what you can do)
This issue we also talk about 10 potential ways you can MAXIMIZE your Productivity, how Checklists are a very powerful tool
The Vision: How Phones are designed to be addicting.
Powerful Products - Texts
This is not a productivity tool as a category but this application is a game-changer.
If I have to describe Texts in one sentence is to All of your messages
In one inbox literally and it makes it so convenient
It has some really amazing features that caught my eye like having custom themes of the application, Messages that stay unread until you actually reply, it is an easy setup, fast, and smooth
You’ll love this app trust me
The Top 10 Segment
Here are 10 potential ways you can MAXIMIZE your Productivity:
Pomodoro Technique - It is a very powerful technique where you focus on a task for 25 minutes completely and then the next 5 minutes is a break where you can stretch out or scroll on social media but then after completing this one slot you return to work again for the next 25 minutes, This technique helps you focus more on the work and separating a distraction time so it doesn’t collide with your focused work
Put all tasks on your calendar - Put out every task you have to do in a day in a calendar from specific timings to specific timings so you are blocking that time slot for that particular task only and no other tasks during that slot.
The 2-min rule - If something takes less than 2-mins to get done, then get it done right away.
Eat the frog at the peak - Do the hardest tasks when you have the most energy in a day and not the opposite.
Schedule distraction time - You can schedule a 30-45 minutes distraction time in your day as a reward for the tasks you do before that. You dedicate this time slot so that your notifications and social media can’t distract you during your working hours
Create a self-WhatsApp group - You can do this by creating a group of 2 people on WhatsApp and once it’s done you can remove the second person and now it’s just you in the group. This is literally a blessing you can basically use this for anything like taking down notes on your work or for sharing photographs etc.
Let the distraction flow out - Whenever you have a distracting thought you need to write it down as when you write it down it sort of starts to make more sense than how unnecessary it was.
Try not to become a storage house - Your mind is to come up with ideas, not to store them so whenever you get stuck with an idea or reminder by someone either write in your notes or add it on your to-do list or set an alarm so that when the time comes to action you don’t forget it. It also relieves the tension of remembering the task. I do this very much and it works a charm for me.
Minimize Distractions - Make your working desk as clean as possible, design your working environment in such a way that when you enter the space you should feel like working in there and nothing else, turn on your notifications of mobile phone while working or keep it in another room while your work.
A Good Sleep - A Good Sleep always pays much more than what we assume, it is where the many important processes of your body take place so you don’t want to reduce it.
Great Idea - Checklists are a very powerful tool
Checklists are the most straightforward solutions for all significant professions like pilots, surgeons, and engineers. Even Used in the great success of the first Man to moon mission to deal with marvelous amounts of tasks.
Checklists can be used in every task you do, every big task you do or even small ones without even forgetting a thing to do that’s what surgeons refer to while having a big
surgery, Engineers while construction, Pilots while taking off, If it can affect them why not you?
It relieves the Mind to have to try to remember the tasks you have to do and creates satisfaction when tasks are completed is all about the things that get overlooked, missed, or somehow forgotten.
I personally use checklists in all of my work and they are a blessing, especially it has helped me a lot in tasks that are recurring like a checklist to follow while making posts for the platforms each week or when I am studying for my exams what all tasks I did previously during the prep that has helped me, I put it on the checklist so that I don’t forget it.
You can use it for literally every recurring task like a checklist to follow while going out of the station or while cooking a dish.