10 More Simple Tips to Boost Your Productivity x2 (2021 Guide)
Tags: tutorial, productivity, codenewbie, lifehacks
Published: 2021-01-03 04:04:25

*The previous article on lifehacks was a huge success. Let's start the year with more productivity tips!*

[TL;DR](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Too_long;_didn%27t_read) Just Read the Headlines. 

# 1. - 16.

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# 17. Track Goal and Metrics 🥅

- Goals and objectives are important. But without tracking they are useless.
- Progress metrics, and goal replanning, are keys.
- It's never all-or-nothing!
- Don't plan and abandon!

# 18. Build Habits 🏃

- Surgeon Maxwell Maltz found out [it takes about 21 days](https://jamesclear.com/new-habit) to create a new habit.
- It takes at least about 21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to harden.
- Creating (or removing) a habit is straightforward.
- Repeat 21 days (streak).
- Fake it till you make it.

# 19. Focus 👁️
- If the product is free, **you** are the product
- Attention is *your* asset
- When you use website/application/soft and try to do A, there will be a lot of alerts, banners, messages and clickbaits prompting you to do B/C/D, etc.
- Be like Ulysses, don't listen to Mermaids!

# 20. Disable notifications questions 🔕

- Notifications are our enemy.
- But notification prompts are also a Foe.
- Disable *Notifications Requests* at all, on mobile or web. 

[Chrome](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/3220216?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop)/[Firefox](https://sendpulse.com/knowledge-base/push-notifications/enable-disable-push-notifications-mozilla-firefox)

# 21. Embrace Change 🦋

- Have clear goals but manage goals. 
- Revisit them often.
- Don't stick to the plan. 
- There's no plan
- Set aims and change direction if necessary

# 22 Summon the [Panic Monster](https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_urban_inside_the_mind_of_a_master_procrastinator)! 👾

To avoid Procrastination set daily goals with artificial hard deadlines.

*I try to write daily articles even though they are very far from perfect. 
Fake deadline: today.*
 
# 23: Avoid Twitter trends 🤐

(web hack)

1. Go to “Explore” under “Home”
2. Click the wheel at the right of the “Search Twitter” box.
3. Click “Explore Locations”.
4. Pick a country (like [St Kitts](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Kitts_and_Nevis)).
5. Now the “What’s Happening” will only display content for the location (empty).
6. You will only see your timeline.

# 25. Auto Deadlines 🔫

- Use *time limits* to your advantage. Even if you don’t have a real deadline on a task, set one for yourself. 
- Knowing that you only have four hours left, will help ensure you don’t waste an hour of it on social media.

# 26. Set [SMART](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria) goals 👩🏾‍🔬

- **S**pecific
- **M**easurable
- **A**ttainable
- **R**elevant
- **T**ime-bound

Write your goals as *SMART* Sentences:

Example:
> “Write one [Code Smell](https://hashnode.com/series/code-smells-ckh0jrbfm07pu20s1bc0yaae1) article every week until 2022."

# 27. Drastic Measures 🐱‍🚀

- Auto-block some distraction websites.
- Use [BlockSite](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/blocksite-stay-focused-co/eiimnmioipafcokbfikbljfdeojpcgbh) or similar to keep you off social media or news
- Block site IPs on hosts.txt or similar.
- Cut off internet using router rules.
- Go to an internet void zone in the wild.
- Engage on a goal-based group to be accountable.

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This list is far from finished. But my autodeadline was today.

Hopefully, draft tips will be out next week!

What do you think?