Productivity is just a joke

sasirekha
4 min readFeb 8, 2021

Did you make your new year’s resolution? If not, did you made any new year resolution at some point in your life? If your answer is ‘oh it's bullshit never worked for me, not going to make one’ then welcome to our club of Illuminati. I am going to share some secrets with you.😉

If you are looking for motivation or advice to increase your productivity, then this is definitely not a blog for you. This is for individuals who call procrastination is apathy. They are always a person who carries shitloads of productivity guilt.

And if this is you, don’t beat yourself, buddy. Sorry, I will take back my word, you have to beat yourself. You don’t have any other options we all knew that productivity is the heart of success and irony that we people crave for success. Let’s not get disappointed and I am here to help you 😊

The eagle may soar; beavers build a dam

Productivity needs a trigger. To make it simple, you won’t order tea in Starbucks unless they refused to make your coffee. Let get to the point and set some ground rules to discipline ourselves. I am going to give some techniques to make you productive.

Block Site:

This is a chrome extension and also an application that helps manage your website usage and blocks your apps. You have an option to auto redirect to other productive pages or apps when you clicked on unproductive sites. List down websites and apps which eat up your time then add them here. It also has a default block on mature content. website:https://blocksite.co/ app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.blocksite&hl=en_US&gl=US

It will be very tough at the start but you can use your apps and website by shifting to whitelist mode for some time. If you are going to install this for your child then you better set up the password protection to edit this site.

Planning sheet Procrastination:

is your work not done yet? Just turn back the time and think again clearly, it says that you procrastinated your work. Procrastination is not considered the worst habit however it's good to procrastinate some works with efficient planning.

Eat the big frog first then we can eat small rabbits

when you are planning your work just put the big and ugliest work you are scared to take as first, so you feel a little pressure, and once you completed you will gain enormous positivity and motivation. The person who creates self-pressure won't receive any outside pressure from other individuals or things. procrastination can be simply avoided by daily planning the work and writing it down every day.

Plan sheet: https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_07.htm?download=1

Alarm — Miracle wakeup call:

Have you fed up with your father's advice to wake up early every day? Waking up early is the toughest thing to master. I myself find that as the toughest thing in my life.

do you ever think why the heck i have to wake up at 4 am early to study? why not after 10 pm, anyway time is time.

The answer lies in your subconscious mind. when you woke up at 4 am morning your subconscious mind is not influenced by other individual thoughts or things. Throughout the day your mind gets influenced by many things. when you do feed your subconscious mind when it's fully awake and empty it will take you to 100% result. To trigger your body clock, keep both the wake-up and sleep alarm. After some time you can clearly notice that an alarm is not needed anymore.

Failure Notes — Fail and Learn:

How long it took for you to come back from your last failure? Failure makes you take some steps back from your effort. Next time when you face failure, take some time and write down about failed process. I know you need some time to start again but writing down helps you to analyze where it went wrong, it may also help you in your second attempt.

Failure or rejection can only be given by yourself so don’t ever live on it

Several failures make you come back stronger each time but don't forget to analyze every failure. Each failure waiting for you to teach a wonderful life lesson so just study your failures. Evernote is a powerful note-taking app with different categories.

I hope I shared some impactful ways to make you productive. Please do comment about your apps or techniques you are using for productivity. See you later!

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sasirekha

I’m a Data Engineer. Love sharing ideas and thoughts :)