Productivity

In the modern world productivity is a viral and wide subject. Under this subpage, I aim to gather and clarify how I try to stay productive. Below you will find the main concepts with a brief explanation. I will expand them under separate subpages. 

Disclaimer: Before you deep dive into the world of productivity, I highly recommend reading some principles here LINK 

General knowledge

• Understand your natural sleep-wake cycle (chronotype): A person's natural sleep-wake cycle. There are four main chronotypes: early risers, late risers, intermediate risers, and night owls.

• Deep work: A state of intense focus and concentration that allows you to accomplish difficult tasks.

• Remember to rest

  • Connect with nature

  • Don't hoard vacation time

  • Do something else

• Motivation: A key to understanding what drives you and others 

• Multitasking doesn't exist: If possible focus on one thing, otherwise you're losing energy 

• How the brain likes to learn: Everyone's brain learns differently, so you need to find the best way for you to learn.

• Smart learning technics: (?)

  • mnemonics

  • mind maps 

Basics

• Take care of your work environment (desk, smartphone, wall colors, noise, window view, office space etc.)

• Keep an eye on how much time you spend on social media

• Health, nutrition, movement (hybrid work, partly standing)

Tools and technics

• Eat the frog: the art of doing the hardest tasks first 

• Inbox zero: The practice of clearing your email inbox to zero at the end of each day.

• Listening to music (some genres help you focus and some not)

• Create your system

• Be careful with communicators (Slack, MS Teams, Discord, etc.)

• Write down things to do, don't keep them in your head

• To-do list

• Power naps: A short nap, typically lasting 15-30 minutes.

• Take notes, gather knowledge - build your own Wiki ;)

• 5 Why: A problem-solving technique that involves asking "why?"  around five times to get to the root cause of a problem.

• Automation of repetitive tasks