Get Monster Productivity When you Want

Monster productivity. Let's talk all about it.

When you have work to do and you have a deadline, do you tend to work faster and better as that deadline approaches?

If you don't then this blog post will be totally useless for you.

But if like me you tend to work faster and better as deadlines approach then I got some "magic sauce" for you.

A couple of years ago I read a book. In this book I read a tip about productivity. It involved a kitchen timer.

The tip was this:

  1. Get a kitchen timer.
  2. Set it to 30 minutes.
  3. Then work for 30 minutes on one single task till the timer stops.

Well that was 2 years ago and it's now 2009, and I have used a kitchen timer every single day I have worked since.

In fact I have a gargantuan kitchen timer I bought off Amazon sitting next to my monitor right now counting down the seconds till I must finish this email!

Why am I sharing this with you, because if like me you notice you are more productive as deadlines approach, you can go get a kitchen timer and create as many deadlines as you want to achieve monster productivity when you want and where you want.

Try it out. Grab a timer. Set it to an interval ... 10 minutes ... 30 minutes ... and work for that amount of time with no monkey business. No pointless web surfing. No TV. No distractions.

Who knows you may like me end up with a huge timer next to your monitor ... And be able to achieve monstrous levels or productivity.

Keep it real and keep winning.

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  • I have thought of this same technique, except with an hour glass or 1/2 hour glass if you may. I think 1/2 hour is all you can do before ADD starts to kick in an productivity lags.
    The question is how many of these 1/2 focuses productive time periods can anyone do in a day and what do you reward yourself after with.
  • Hey Mark,

    One way to avoid ADD creeping in is to outline a number of things you want to do within a specific hour (this could be 2 or more tasks or 1 task broken down into sub-tasks) then assign chunks of time to each.

    So here is an example for producing a new website:

    1. Look for points of reference in the wine review niche using google - 20 minutes

    2. Mindmap initial ideas for site: 25 minutes

    3. Create project desciprition for design team: 10 minutes

    4. Email project description to design team: 5 minutes

    I think after chunks of 1 hour it's imperative to reward yourself with at least a walk about some water and perhaps something to eat.

    I can work solidly during the week but on saturday's I rest. So I save up rewards for Saturday ...

    Alan
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