5 Productivity Hacks To Get Shit Done
Antonio Centeno
I Help Men Earn More Money By Leveraging The Science Of Style - Founder Real Men Real Style
How did I fall so far behind?
I’ll NEVER finish everything.
It’s decision time yet again…
Do I pull another all-nighter and hope I can still do my job tomorrow…
Or apologize to everyone and hope I still have one?
Is the scenario above familiar to you?
Worse still, is it you the night before every big project?
If so, read on.
If not, read on anyway. Even if you’re already hyperproductive, check out today’s special guest. He’ll make you UBERproductive.
How? With 5 hacks to help you get shit done.
My friend Thomas Frank is a productivity expert. I recently flew him out to my Menfluential conference to share his mind-blowing insights.
#1. The Pomodoro Technique
Pomodoro is Italian for tomato. No actual tomatoes were harmed in the making of this technique. It was created by an Italian student with a tomato-shaped oven timer.
How does it work? Set a timer and give yourself a short block of time to work – like a sprint in the programming world. This artificial time limit is called a pomodoro. The classic setup is as follows:
- 4x 25-minute pomodoros
- 5-minute short breaks in between
- 15-20 minute long break at the end
This is just a guideline. You can have anything from giant beefsteak pomodoros to tiny cherry pomodoros.
Thomas uses the Pomodoro Technique to get writing done every single day. He sets 25 minutes and he usually ends up working for longer. Why?
‘Work for 25 minutes’ is an input-based goal: just work for that amount of time. An output-based goal might be ‘write this article’.
You’ve got to have output-based goals but they can be daunting. How long will it take me to write this article? What if it takes ages? I don’t WANNA write this WHOLE article… but sure, I’ll work for 25 minutes.
See how that works? I know for me when I get something started – boom! Magic happens. I get into a groove. You can too.
Before you started, there was that resistance. You didn’t want to do it. But once you started and got into it you didn’t want to stop. Nothing motivates like actually getting something done, which brings us to productivity hack #2.