Get shit done!
By: Giovanni Fu Lin
Tags: Inspiration, Productivity, Procrastination, Start

I tried to set my alarm at 5 am so I could do all of the things before the sun comes out. Here I want to show you what I have learned through this experience.

Well, all started when I realize I have to do something useful after wasting hours of my time watching Instagram post. At that time when I was scrolling the screen I feel on one side that I must stop viewing and start doing something else more useful but the thing is that I kept going watching useless memes, area 51, cats, friends in party stories…, that was bad, because I knew I shouldn’t continue to waste my time in that way, I must do something; I must change my habit.

To overcome this, I tried a lot of things such as listen podcast, watching youtube tutorial, searching on a blog about how became productive. All of them bring me to focus on the term discipline.

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“Discipline is being able to force yourself to do something, in spite of how you feel, over and over until it becomes a habit.” -Kim Brenneman.

To put it in practice I created a table of to-do list of thing that I must finish in the early morning average people wake up. It looks good at the beginning; I was starting a new challenge that could improve my journey quality. As always the thing isn’t as simple as it looks like, soon after some days of doing this schedule it becomes inefficient, I wake up early but I waste the time available it wasn’t correctly used. At the ending of the super early morning productive hour, I didn’t bring too much value. It is because of distraction, a lot of distractions, I thought that in the morning when it is quiet and after just woke up it will be the best moment of concentration but it wasn’t. Something is missing and it was the concretization of the task. What I have to tackle must be measurable so after the morning you can tick it as completed instead of a list of vague things to do. The task must be as concrete as possible and within a possible schedule.

To start to do that you must keep the procedure very simple, It isn’t necessary to get all the information before set task, surf the internet for better advice or searching and thinking about other to-do things, because it is nothing else than self-sabotage. You maintain yourself busy by doing the unnecessary step before to tackle what you want to finish just because it is annoying or difficult so you want to start as late as possible.

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“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done. Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.” ― Bruce Lee

You have to break into small pieces of a task and jump in literally in the talk ignoring everything. If you as me did bungee jumping or whatever similar experience that request not thinking and just start and do the jump, here I am telling you to do the same thing, if you are going to start the task and suddenly come to your mind that you have to drink water, have to go WC, have to send a message to a colleague. Add them all in a priority to-do list after what you are doing right now and let start to tackle what must be finished first.