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Become more motivated by keeping a did-it list

November 20, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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The number of apps that claim to increase your level of productivity is constantly in the rise. Most of them tend to promote themselves as tools that can help you capture the tasks that you need to do. However, they do not either emphasize nor seem to promote another important factor: Keeping a did-it list, about the history of finished tasks. This might sound a bit weird and unheard, but it is something very helpful that can have a considerable impact on the levels of productivity. Continue reading

Why accountability can motivate you to be more productive?

November 6, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Maybe you have been in a situation where you have told someone that you will do something, and then managed to get it done as promised. On the other hand, you might have set a task on your to do list in which others are not involved and have been postponing it for a long time, or even let it unfinished at all. You did not finish it for more than a week and are surprised and feel guilty about this. The reason for these types of sabotages about your own goals, and commitments to tasks where other people are not involved might be because of accountability and ego. Continue reading

You are never ready, you simply have to do it anyway

August 28, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 6 Comments

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A couple of days ago, as I was discussing with a friend of mine about a plan that we had being talking about in the past, he questioned whether we are ready to dive into it or not. This is something that I have also encountered in a number of occasions with others and myself too. In fact, I am aware of a regular trend that has consistently shown up in my experience in most cases when I started something that was outside of my comfort zone. Continue reading

Time estimations of task completion can help you be more productive

August 21, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Having a long pile of to do items can be overwhelming. Organizing them based on their importance and urgency should be the filters that we should use most of the time. However, there might be also be another useful filter that can come in hand at times when we are not sure that the above mentioned filters are pointing to the right task to be done at a certain period of time. This important filter is the estimation of the time needed for tasks that are on our to-do lists to be completed. Continue reading

Managing major important priorities each week

August 7, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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Yesterday I came across this idea of setting three major priorities at the beginning of each week and do the best out of your efforts to knock them down before the start of the next upcoming week. It sounds really simple and people might start to neglect it, saying that it can be only used by people who are engaged in only a few things, but actually this advice comes from a person who is engaged in a lot of things. Continue reading

Combat procrastination by questioning the reasons of its occurrence

July 31, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

Procrastination is something that at some point at in our lives we have done it, no matter how disciplined we might look like in front of the others, or how many things we have done so far. It is something that we still do it here and there because of different factors. Being able to identify the reason of its occurrence is one of the most important steps that might help you to combat it.

Why do we quit before finishing something?

July 24, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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A few weeks ago a thought came to mind about the reason why I let my guard down before I finish doing something. I almost finished doing a task that I had to do and almost at the end of it, I found myself thinking that I have already finished it so maybe it is time to move on something else. Then I had less motivation to continue as hard as up to that point. I identified the false reasoning that was behind this thought that has kept repeating in my life. Continue reading

Use a calendar to log your actual activities

June 5, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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A large portion of our time is wasted and we know that. However, often times we are not aware about the types of things that waste it. We overestimate the time it takes doing something, and underestimate it for some others. Continue reading

Find a reason for saving your time

May 22, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 0 Comments

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I think the number one technique that should be learned about managing time is having a compelling reason to save it. There are a lot of blog posts in the internet regarding this issue of telling you how to manage your priorities in life and thus saving more time for other important things. Being so, there is no excuse for someone to say that I do not know how to manage my time. One thing that I have consistently seen missing from these articles is that they do not put into the question the emotional factors, or reasons that would be as a motivation for a person to be more productive. Continue reading

How you do something is how you do everything

May 15, 2016 / Fatos Morina / 2 Comments

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A few weeks ago I heard the second interview with the so called, chess prodigy, Josh Waitzkin, at the Tim Ferriss Show, at which Josh mentioned something that has stick to me from that day. He said that top performers are usually people who “embrace the funk”, their type of personality and want to display their true selves from the performance that they do. Continue reading