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- johnlandes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29I could triple my productivity if I could just bring myself to signout and actually work
- BritishGolgo13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7WoW, AIM, and Digg are all the crack pebbles that fill my buckets. They be stealin' my buckets.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'll read this tomorrow, promise
- Chris71990, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I never read any of the books but my dad is an organization freak who uses
the Covey planners and he is always telling me how he needs to move his big rocks.
This article, even it is helpful, is not original.
He does give Covey partial credit in his update. - banieldowen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Ironic as I'm reading this to procrastinate... I wish I could focus.
Oh look, something shiny! - Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Summary: If you have a bunch of big things to do this week, do them, and don't do other stuff that will waste your time. This shouldn't be an earth shattering read.
- meshman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Plan your week ahead of time, placing your Big Rocks first."
Ok, I do that every week. Know what happens just as I start rolling the big rock? 5 even bigger rocks roll in. So while I'm trying to deal with these, the small rocks start piling up into one enormous boulder. This is great advice for people that have lots of time on their hands. - jschrab, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The whole problem with this type of strategy is that it assumes that you have control over your own priority planning. In most work environments I've been in, the pebbles are given equal priority with the big rocks. I find such articles to be living fantasy land.
- phaed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I think its safe to say that everyone on digg is procrastinating at this very moment.
- grinin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Thanks for the link. I'm sure many of us out there can relate. I have never seen zenhabits.com but its a new bookmark.
Thanks again! - brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As a programmer who has also managed programmers, I have my own favorite motto I created:
"If you do the one most important task on your list each day, complete it, and go home, you will work about 7 hours per week and be more productive then about 90% of the programming workforce."
Unfortunately most programmers avoid their most important task every day like it was some sort of plague, and argue to push priority up on tasks they enjoy or can be 'milked' as time-consuming to anyone not working on them. - smedrick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yeah...I can't believe people have to actually be told to do this stuff. Every hackjob "life coach" and productivity "guru" out there will tell you the same basic principles wrapped up in different flavors of *****.
Want to get something done? Don't waste your time reading self-help garbage and just do it. - elev, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I heard an anology once that went something like this...
Imagine you have a bucket. You also have sand and big rocks. You have to put the sand and big rocks in the bucket. You need to make sure you get the rocks in. Just get as much sand as you can in. If you put the sand in first you will never get the rocks in. If you put the rocks in first, you can fill in the gaps with the sand.
Basically, if you don't make the big things a priority there might not be room for them later. - tim507, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I just realized ZenHabits is a great website.
- Grimdotdotdot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Abridged version: Plan what you want to do, and when you are going to do it. That's all the article actually says.
- Modulo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I AM going to say that... later.
- thelandlady, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Looks like someone read a book by Stephen Covey...wow...
Pretty blatant plagiarism on this one. - yellekc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Everyone knows big rocks can double or triple your productivity, but at what cost?
A big rock here cost about $200. Rocks aren't exactly sold by the most honorable of people.
Smoking rocks is not at all good for your health, but if you need to stay up for a solid week then you have a solution.
If you do get addicted, you will be more productive than you ever imagined. In a single day many addicts can accomplish multiple liquor store robberies, and usually have time on the side to do a few tricks for extra cash. How many people have you mugged today? - nicolaihel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4lol. True ... Digg and the other sites I go to take up waaaay too much time!
- synt4x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ah! the Greedy algorithm! This should be old hat to anyone that's ever tackled the Backpacker's problem, huffman encoding, or path finding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy_algorithm - xutopia, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I do not believe the rock analogy was coined by Covey.
- rsktkr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cut a whole in the bottom of the bucket....sand and small stuff drain out...plenty of room for them "Big Rocks". Glad I could help. Next.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll read it later....
- 60effects, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I've got the geeks' double: Digg and learning Ubuntu. Thanks a lot, guys.
- AxeSwinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1If you can't set priorities and are told to just get things done use a scope. Start with the largest project and work to the smallest. That way if you do get free time you can sneak in the smaller tasks.
Just a thought: If everything is labeled as a high priority nothing is a high priority. - mahdaeng, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2covey rocks!
(pun intended) - Ediebriquette, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1My week is not seven buckets. My tasks are not big rocks and little pebbles.
- ideadude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1If I plug my websites, can I call this work?
http://www.winelog.net, http://www.interactive8ball.com - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey, this seems awfully familiar to a story i read years ago that I have saved. It;s called Mayo and Bear and you can find it here - http://www.successfuloffice.com/Mayo_and_Beer.htm
- 3RNC77, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Piggy took on a Big Rock and look what happened to him. I'll stick to sand!
- Cyberen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I was going to say that!
- 1laradream, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Practical advice on how to prioritize your work and improve productivity.Good find!
- haggie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1This was stupid when it was Dugg yesterday.
- 1laradream, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Practical advice on how to prioritize your work to help you improve your productivity.
- ripple123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0I want my 5 min "reading that article rock" back
- microview2007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Why is this "Navigators" account still active? Digg needs a spam reporting link built in like Craig's list.
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