![]() ![]() Lesson 3: How to wake up early in 2 steps Lesson 2: How to break your one goal down and identify one key to-do each day Lesson 1: How to set ONE goal and constantly focus on it Note: Here’s the rest of this productivity series, in case you need to catch up on any of these. Now all you have to do is eat that damn frog in the morning. You have a clear goal, you have tiny action items lined up, you go to bed early and you have a brilliant morning routine. Let’s assume you’ve done everything right so far. Note: Think you might be a special snowflake? Unless you pass this supertasker-test by the University of Newcastle (which is ridiculously hard), you’re not, so you’d best get on single-tasking.īut how? The Environment of Inevitability Want these kinds of results? Stop procrastinating, eliminate multitasking. For the past 2.5 years, James has stuck to this schedule without fail, resulting in 200+ published articles on his site, nearly 200,000 email subscribers and over 2.4 million unique visitors in 2014 alone. ![]() On Mondays and Thursdays that’s writing an article, which he publishes the same day on. No matter what else he does that day, his anchor task MUST get done. He publicly admits to having only one anchor task each day. If you’ve ever read anything about self-improvement online, you probably ran into James Clear. Of course I’m only a small fish in the single-tasking universe. ![]() These 6 hours of focus got me on Productivityist, a very popular productivity blog. Last Sunday I not only spent 0 minutes driving or almost crashing into things, but also focused for 6 hours on drafting, writing, editing, finishing and pitching an entire guest post – 2746 words. What kind of results can you expect from implementing this?įast forward 4 years from my near-accident. Jump to the front of the line by clicking here. If you wanna cut to the chase, just grab the checklist of all 32 environment changes you can make, along with some other bonuses (like a few cool ways to show you you can’t multitask and a report on the science behind it). It has car crashes, science, screenshots with arrows, video, music and tons of instructions. I wish I could take credit for this strategy, but unfortunately James Clear beat me to it. To do so we’ll make lots of small tweaks to your environment, which will add up to a big boost in concentration. That’s why today, you’ll learn how to stop procrastinating. Instead, if we focus on eliminating procrastination itself, multitasking will dissipate right with it. Countless books and productivity experts argue for us to quit multitasking and that’s a noble idea, but it misses the root cause: our desire to do what’s easier. It’s hard for us to concentrate our attention on one thing, so we add in more to still feel busy, yet face less cognitive dissonance. Multitasking is, at its core, a way for us to procrastinate. Before you accidentally kill yourself like I almost did, I’ll help you address this issue. I learned the hard way that multitasking doesn’t work. Because magically, just like in the training, I corrected it and caught the car before it spun or hit oncoming traffic.įorget cold showers. I can’t remember who gave me that drivers’ orientation and safety training for my 17th birthday, but whoever you are, I owe you one. Away from the ditch…and right into the opposite lane. Instinctively, my left hand yanks the steering wheel all the way to the left, the car starts to skid. The car started vibrating as the tire hit the grass. The right front tire went over the white line.
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