Increasing productivity in carding. Advice from a carder.

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1. Destroy it. The most effective way to cope with a task is to cross it out. If it is not necessary to do it, then remove it from the agenda.

2. Daily goals. Without focus, it's easy to get distracted. Set goals for each day in advance. Decide what you should do. And then do it.

3. The worst comes first. To overcome procrastination and procrastination, you need to learn to do the most unpleasant tasks in the morning instead of putting them off to another time of the day. This small victory will lead to a very productive day.

4. Peak activity. Determine the time when you work most effectively when carding and schedule important tasks for it. Work on non-essential tasks when you are not at your peak.

5. No interaction zone. Place blocks of time for carding that requires concentration next to each other. Schedule simple and distraction-free tasks in the interaction zone, and important tasks in the non-interaction zone.

6. Mini kilometer posts. When you begin a task, define a goal that you must achieve before you stop carding. For example, if you're working on a book, you might decide not to get up until you've written at least 1,000 words. Achieve this goal no matter what.

7. Time limit. Give yourself a specific amount of time, such as 30 minutes, to get things moving. Don't worry about how far you can go. Just keep carding during this time.

8. Grouping. Group similar tasks, such as phone calls or errands, into one block and complete it in one go.

9. Early bird. Get up early in the morning, around 5 am, and immediately start carding on the most important task. You'll likely get more done before 8 a.m. than most people do in a day.

10. Corner of silence. Take a laptop without internet or WiFi access and go somewhere you can card until you drop without risk of distractions, such as the library, park, coffee shop, or your backyard.

11. Temp. Choose your rhythm wisely and try to move a little faster than usual. Speak faster. Walk faster. Type faster. Read faster. Come home early.

12. Relaxation. Reduce your stress by creating a relaxing and tidy workspace.

13. Agenda. Provide a written agenda to all meeting participants. This greatly increases their attention and efficiency. It can also be used for phone calls.

14. Pareto principle. The Pareto principle, or the 80-20 principle, states that 20% of the effort produces 80% of the results. Focus your energy on that important 20% and don't overdo it on the less important 80%.

15. Ready-Aim-Fire. Beat procrastination by taking action as soon as you set a goal, even if the action is not well planned. The plan can always be adjusted along the way.

16. Solution in a minute. Once you feel like you've gathered all the information you need to make a decision, set a timer and give yourself exactly 60 seconds to make it. During this minute you can hesitate and doubt yourself as much as you like, but as soon as it ends, you need to make a choice. Once the choice is made, you need to take some action in this direction.

17. Deadline (deadline). Set a deadline for completing the task and use it as a guide to stay on track.

18. Promise. Tell carders about your decisions, they will help you not to abandon them in the future.

19. Punctuality. By all means, be on time. Better yet, early.

20. Read during pauses. Read during pauses, such as when you're waiting for a meeting to start, standing in line, or waiting for your coffee to brew. If you are a man, you can read while you shave (preferably with an electric razor). You can read 365 articles in a year.

21. Resonance. Imagine that you have already achieved your goal. Implement it in your head and soon you will implement it in life.

22. Brilliant prizes. Give yourself frequent gifts for achievements. Watch a movie, read a book, get a professional massage, or spend a day at an amusement park.

23. Second quadrant. Distinguish between truly important tasks and those that are simply difficult. Find time to work on critical Quadrant 2 tasks that are often important and rarely urgent, such as exercising, writing a book, or finding a life partner.

24. Continuity. At the end of the working day, determine the task that you will start working on the next day, prepare materials in advance. The next day, start carding on the task immediately.

25. Divide and conquer. Break complex projects into small, specific tasks. Focus on one of these tasks.

26. Single-tasking. Once you start a task, work on it until you complete it 100%. Don't switch between tasks in the middle. When something distracts you, just write it down so you can deal with it later when you're done.

27. Introduce randomness. Pick a random task for a large project and complete it. Pay a random bill. Make one phone call. Write page 42 of your book.

28. Insanely bad. Overcome procrastination by performing a task deliberately poorly, knowing that you don't have to share the results of your work with anyone. Write a blog post about the taste of salt, create a horribly dysfunctional website, or a business plan that guarantees bankruptcy in the first year. If your project outline is so terrible, then you have no other way but to the top.

29. 30 days. Decide what new habit you want to form and stick to it for 30 days. A temporary obligation is much easier to keep than a permanent one. Read the article Success in 30 days

30. Delegate. Convince someone else to do the work for you.

31. Cross pollination. Take up martial arts, start a blog, or join a drama club. Often, ideas from one area can improve your productivity in another.

32. Intuition. Trust your intuition. She's probably right.

33. Optimization. Identify the carding process you perform most often and write it down step by step. Improve them on paper. Then test these improvements in action. Sometimes it's hard to notice what's right under our noses without a microscope.
 
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