From the physiological into the working state
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Editor’s note: You may have seen a lot of articles or suggestions on how to improve efficiency, and then think about summarizing and summarizing the best way for you. But those are really useless. What really matters is action. It is forcing yourself to sit at the table and start working. You can only do one small thing all day, and it is better to spend the whole day. This article is translated from medium, article author Darius Foroux, the original title The Most Underrated Productivity Technique Is Also the Simplest.
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Everyone knows that the advice on how to improve efficiency in the market is simply overwhelming. It is impossible to see them all, but I think I have read a lot of suggestions in this regard over the years. — No matter how unpleasant these suggestions seem, I have tried to practice most of them at some point. For a while, I forced myself to take a cold shower every day, because I heard that it can help me overcome procrastination – but not.
In the end, I realized that studying all of these time management techniques, scheduling, and strategies to solve the delays only made me unable to really get things done. I already know how to improve efficiency. The next question is how to practice it.
Practicing it in two steps is enough:
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Physically enter the working state
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Starting a small thing
Yes, that’s it, it’s that simple.
This is really simple, but not easy. Usually, we will do everything we can to avoid taking the first step. We would advise ourselves to drink another cup of coffee, go out for a break, read a few pages of books, etc. – For example, before writing this article, I reorganized my bookshelf meticulously. I am trying to make myselfAvoid moving the pen, the voice in my head tells me to open Netflix to watch the drama.
But I still sat down at my desk. I put the phone aside and turned off the browser. I started to do a little thing that I arranged for the day. Then, just like magic, I started working.
The real secret of this technique is that you have to do it again tomorrow after you have done it today, and then build it on the third and fourth day of the day. Writer Will Durant wrote: “What we do over and over has created us. Therefore, excellence is not an act, but a habit.”
So, even if you insist on doing only one thing a day, it will help you move toward your goal. Reddit user ryans01 wrote in a post: “Look at the table and found that it has been 11:58, but you still have nothing to do? You can write a sentence, read a page of a book, not too much. A little bit is better than nothing.”
We can talk about the latest ways to improve efficiency all day long, but this does not lead to real work. Sometimes you have to force yourself to sit in a chair and start acting.
Translator: Xitang