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50 ways to get your stuff done

lifehacker.com — Writer Jerry Oltion says he has to come up with a new anti-procrastination technique every few months - so he shares a 50-item laundry list of strategies he's used to get to work over the years. His advice is aimed at working writers but can be applied to anyone who's got to self-motivate through a project. A couple of goodies...

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  • teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12maybe he should stop procrastinating and come up with one every week...
  • captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25http://www.sfwa.org/writing/strategies.html
    • pbaehr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Thank you. As much as I love being linked to blogs which post a tiny fraction of a story before linking to the original, I appreciate a shortcut.
    • diizy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0i was to say, it really is not very usefull to link to lifehacker which simply re-links you back to that site, thanks!
  • oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4351. delete digg.com from your bookmarks.
    • Snowcone, on 10/12/2007, -23/+951. Block digg.com at your gateway/proxy.
    • sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2252. Digg down redundant comments.
    • IronKurton, on 10/12/2007, -9/+1152. Digg down redundant and unneeded comments.
    • CaptShmo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2Put an axe through computer monitor.
    • mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'd be so afraid to know how much digg.com really kills my productivity. Now, I should get back to watching Scrubs.
  • dopesick, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7Stop reading self-help / modivational websites and get your ass off your PC and get some work done.
    • kindernacht, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12but if i leave my PC i won't be able to work, seeing as i work on my PC.
  • chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5A clean desk is a clean mind.
    • glock22ownr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Amen brotha!
    • IronKurton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Unless you work in a large company, where a clean desk is a result of the clean desk policy...
    • crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15A clean desk is a sign of someone who had time to clean his desk.
  • crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"or your significant other does that kinky thing with the chocolate syrup"

    Yeah, cause my wife always gets freaky with me when I meet my goals.
    • IronKurton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Me: Honey, I finally finished the interface between ServerX and ServerY!!
      Wife: Here's a phone, call someone who cares.
      Me: Does this mean no chocolate syrup???
  • sciencebase, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1It's funny how it's all the so-called 2.0 sites are the biggest source of online procrastination...

    I've even created a version 2.0 of sciencebase.com to help in this endeavour
  • Sangatious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Seems like a good article, I'll read it, eventually...
  • devmode, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I'll read it later.

    @Sangatious: beat me to the punch ... guess I procrastinated commenting longer than you.
  • ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I know it's been said, but seriously. Ditch Digg (there's a pun dying to come out there..).

    I installed the TimeTracker extension for firefox, which simply counts the hours/minutes in the day in which firefox is open with focus; excluding a whitelist of valid sites (such as your corporate site, etc).

    In the average 8 hr work day, I get between 2-3 hrs in firefox; mostly because of digg. That's about 25% of my day.

    I reset my settings recently, but over the course of about a month, I believe it said about 40 hours wasted.

    I'd say we should all install it, and hav contests for getting the lowest time wasted. But then... that sounds kind of like a waste of time.
  • tomisina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2amphetamines.
  • ThePDW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1FTA: "Paper your study walls with Playboy foldouts"

    Done and done!!!
  • PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+253: Don't read digg articles aimed specifically at writers but advertised as being for everyone.

    Especially when the number one is:

    "Set a quota of pages written per day."

    (what?)
  • nixdoctor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Nice tips... Many of them apply for non-writers too.
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