How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It

Re:How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It by hliyan on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:07AM (#18181887)

Strangely, the one thing that worked for me doesn't appear to be on this list:

The resistance to starting a task is geometrically proportional to the SIZE of the task.

So I try to break everything down into tasks that take no more than a few minutes. I wouldn't have tasks like "Write FooBar architecture document", but rather "Write FooBar intro", or "sketch connection diagram on paper" or "copy connection diagram to Visio/Draw.io".

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Re:How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It by quentinp on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @12:19AM (#18181934)

The article does mention your trick:

> My solution was to approach a project by turning it into as many tiny steps as possible. That way I could get a few really easy wins under my belt. For example, each step would be a task such as "Search for ______ on Google" or "Have a conversation with ______." Crossing things off your to-do list gives your brain a happy little dopamine hit, even if the tasks are tiny—it keeps your motivation up and your excuses down.

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Re:How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It by hliyan on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:11AM (#18182651)

You're right. I think one of my other tricks failed me: reading paragraph headings, following by the minimum number of sentences per heading required to get its gist.

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Re:How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It by FalcorTheDog on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @02:28AM (#18182473)

This is literally the first tip he describes in the article.

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