Re:Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tr...
by atmosx on Friday July 03, 2015 @08:09AM
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Did you get that list from some TED, Accelerator Speech or a book? Because it ain't realistic for 90% of the 'population'... which means it's unrealistic and pretty much useless.
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Re:Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tr...
by jdimov9 on Friday July 03, 2015 @08:20AM
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The list is mostly mine (I didn't get it from anywhere), although I have, of course, been influenced by people who are more successful than me.
The most relevant influence is perhaps Dan Sullivan from Strategic Coach. The bit where you pick the top 2 tasks and drop everything else I picked up from a Warren Buffet book a few years ago.
I fully agree with you - a lot of this is not practical for the vast majority of the population. I'm obviously no Warren Buffet, so I also don't have the luxury of doing this all the time. All I'm saying is that when I DO stick to this plan as much as possible, the results are amazing.
It takes a lot of courage to NOT do things that you think you MUST do but HATE doing. Once you blast through this fear, though, you will literally see miracles happen.
Re:Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tr...
by DanBC on Friday July 03, 2015 @08:15AM
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Wait what? Which steps are impossible for 90% of the population?
Re:Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tr...
by vrutberg on Friday July 03, 2015 @08:22AM
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Not a lot of people can spend 1/3 of a year on vacation. I'm in Sweden and I consider my vacation time pretty generous (6 weeks per year), but still, I'm still nowhere near 1/3 of a year.
Re:Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tr...
by qntty on Friday July 03, 2015 @08:37AM
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I assumed that holidays and weekends count as "vacation", in which case you are already there if you don't work on the weekends. If not, then yes it's definitely unrealistic for many.
Re:Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tr...
by chrisjack on Friday July 03, 2015 @10:14AM
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I think he meant time off (which is more realistic) Considering most people have 2 day off each week + the statutory holidays the 1/3 is actually achievable.
(exemple for canada with 4 week off: 52*2=104 "week end" + 10 statutory holliday + 4 week (20 days) vacation= 134 days/365 = 37% more than 1/3)
Re:Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tr...
by halviti on Friday July 03, 2015 @10:09AM
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Yes, but those 6 weeks are just your government sanctioned vacation. There's nothing stopping you from taking more time for yourself.
We get 5 weeks where I am, but I still make it a point to take at least 2 months off.
Re:Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tr...
by dr_hercules on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:39PM
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switch jobs after 12 months and take 6 months off (or rather "on" as I would say)
Re:Ask HN: Share your best personal productivity tips and tr...
by dr_hercules on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:36PM
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90% of the population aren't on HN.