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How Not To Suck At Socializing - Do’s & Don’ts
To Do:
Initiate conversation
Smile
Enjoy your company
Acknowledge randoms
Dress the part
Listen
Converse, don’t rant
Keep eye contact
Keep open body language
Do stuff
The Don’ts:
Sit on your phone
Ignore randoms(random people)
Dwell on smalltalk
Get blind
Criticize
Judge people \
Most important:Don’t feel like you have to do anything.
Using Compliments To Control Communication
Switch focus.
Demand attention.
Engage networking.
Strengthen connections.
Get your way.Reveal wisdom.
Motivation Tips
Go Back to “Why” - Focusing on a dull task doesn’t make it any more attractive
Go for Five - Start working for five minutes
Move Around - Get your body moving as you would if you were extremely motivated to do something.
Find the Next Step
Find Your Itch - What is keeping you from working.
Deconstruct Your Fears -
Get a Partner - Find someone who will motivate you when you’re feeling lazy
Kickstart Your Day - Plan out tomorrow.
Read Books - Not just self-help or motivational books, but any book that has new ideas.
Get the Right Tools - Your environment can have a profound effect on your enthusiasm
There are No Small Problems - The worst killer of motivation is facing a seemingly small problem that creates endless frustration.
Develop a Mantra - Find a few statements that focus your mind and motivate you.
Build on Success - Success creates success.
Simple Productivity: 10 Ways to Do More by Focusing on the Essentials
Clear your head
Focus on the essential tasks
Eliminate the rest.
Do essential tasks first.
Eliminate distractions.
Use simple tools.
Do one thing at a time.
Find quiet
Make the most of your work.
Simplify some more.
50 Ways To Increase Your Productivity
1. Take a break.
2. Set a timer
3. Eliminate all distractions.
4. Distractions should be avoided, but sometimes a bit of music in the background can help you focus.
5. Love what you do.
6. Complete your most dreaded tasks first thing in the morning
7. Use JDarkRoom. This application allows you to write more efficiently by removing all distractions.
8. Just start
9. Everyone has a certain time of the day in which they are more productive than others.
10. Keep a notebook and pen on hand at all times.
11. Write a blog to chronicle your own personal development and achievements
12. Plan out all of your meals a week ahead and make your grocery list accordingly
13. Step away from the computer
14. Write out a to-list each day.
“Am I currently making the best possible use of my time?” This one simple question can be an excellent boost to your productivity.
16. Get plenty of sleep.
17. Exercise
18. Organize your office
19. Outsource as much as possible. Here are just a few of the companies that will help you outsource your everyday tasks:
• GetFriday
• eLance
• Guru.com
• ScriptLancle
20. Use a Tivo or DVR
21. Turn off the TV
22. Listen to educational audio books
23. Auto pay your bills
24. Read David Allen’s best-selling book Getting Things Done
25. Focus on result-oriented activities
26. Take shorter showers
27. Tell other people about your goals
28. Learn to say “No”.
29. Go on an information diet
30. Find a mentor
By modeling after those who have already achieved success, you will save yourself a lot of time and energy.
31. Write your most important tasks and to-dos on a calendar
32. Set some exciting goals.
33. Learn keyboard shortcuts
34. Get up early before anyone else.
35. Don’t multitask
36. Reward yourself for finishing a big task.
37. Shop online
38. Batch similar tasks
39. Speed up your Internet with a broadband connection.
40. Start a polyphasic sleep schedule.
41. Improve your typing speed to save time.
43. Protect yourself from unnecessary phone time with caller ID.
42. Get rid of time wasters. This includes Instant Messenger, video games, Flickr, checking your stats 10 times a day, television, and extraneous Internet surfing.
44. Work from home and avoid the daily commute
45. Many employers now offer direct deposit.
46. Prioritize your tasks ahead of time
48. Cook your meals in bulk
47. When your reading a book, just read the parts that you need and skip the rest.
49. Learn to speed read
50. Use Windows hibernation feature
6 Rules to Work Less and Get More Accomplished
1) The 80/20 Rule
The 80/20 rule basically suggests that a small amount of inputs contributes to a much larger amount of outputs. Using this rule means to minimize time spent in the unproductive 80%.
In application, you can’t simply cut everything that doesn’t directly contribute to your bottom line. Some things, however trivial, still need to get done. The purpose of 80/20 is to force you to be more ruthless in cutting time in areas that contribute little. Here are a few suggestions:
• Cut e-mail time to invest more in larger projects.
• Say no to people who want commitments that don’t contribute enough value.
• Spend more studying core concepts and key terms than less important details.
2) Parkinson’s Law
Parkinson’s Law states that “work will fill the time available for its completion.” This is a side effect of focusing on doing work instead of getting projects completed. Give yourself strict deadlines and cultivate a desire to finish projects, not just check tasks off on a to-do list.
Here are some applications:
• Set a timer for 90 minutes to finish a small project. When the timer sounds, you can’t continue working on it, so think fast and don’t waste time.
• Chunk mammoth projects into smaller pieces. Strive to complete those pieces, rather than just working on the project aimlessly.
3) Energy Management
Energy management, as opposed to time management, forces you to think of results as a function of energy, not time invested. Working intensely for a short period of time can accomplish more than working for days, tired and distracted.
Working yourself into low energy can actually make you accomplish less than if you rested. Here are some ideas:
• Work in bursts. Divide yourself between complete rest and complete focus. Don’t constantly switch in-between which leaves you neither rested or productive.
• Kill projects. Don’t spread tasks that only take a few hours over several days. Sit down and finish them in one sitting. This method of killing projects keeps your energies focused and time saved.
• Rest, health and fun matter. Enslaving yourself to your work can actually accomplish less. Master the ability to recharge yourself when you need it.
4) Only Use Sharp Tools
There’s an old story of two lumberjacks in a tree-cutting contest. The first picked up a rusty axe and ran into the woods immediately to start chopping trees. The second spent almost until the end of the contest sharpening his axe. After which he walked up and quickly felled the biggest tree.
The moral? Don’t use rusty tools.
Don’t waste your time doing things you don’t intend to be excellent at. Delegate them to someone who does have a sharp tool. And for the things you do want to master, make it a priority to sharpen your tool beyond what is necessary to cut. Skill saves time.
5) Rule With Numbers
Assumptions are the biggest waste of your time. When your intuitions about the world don’t match the way it works, you can never be efficient. The only way to combat false assumptions is to test them and follow them up with numbers. The results of a test can save you hundreds of hours if it shows a current process has no impact or suggests a faster alternative.
Here are a few examples:
• A/B Tests - Test out two different methods simultaneously. This can allow you to know with greater accuracy which method works best.
• Track Numbers - Don’t just weigh yourself or count calories, track them. See how they go up, down or change over time.
6) The Marginal Rule of Quality
Is it better to be a perfectionist or sloppy? One can never get a project finished the other requires constant repair because they waste too much time. I think the answer is simpler: when the extra input you invest exceeds the output gained, stop working on it.
An even better extension of this rule would be to say you should stop working on a project when the extra input invested gives less output than doing a comparable task. Here are some applications to try:
• Measure the difference between different amounts of time spent. Try doing your e-mail for 30, 60 and 90 minutes per day. Compare the effectiveness changes when you change the amount of time. Can you really justify spending two hours doing e-mail?
• Compare the amount of time spent polishing with time needed for repairs. If it takes more time to polish than repair, you’re better of quitting early. If repairs are draining your time and polishing is fast, slow down and be careful.
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