Do something to make that hit the last hit that comes your way due to your own lack of action and self care. The only way to combat this is to make a commitment to your new habits and block out the time to get them done. Distractions disrupt the connections between the middle frontal gyrus and the seeing brain (visual cortex), but they don’t obliterate it, so your brain still remembers whatever you were doing and you can come back to it easily. If you’re driven and dedicated to sharpening your creative process, I’ve put together a deeper look into my best methods in this very actionable PDF. I'm not able to get anything done and I know tonnes of people who are able to get their stuff done - How do you do it?

After all, if you knew all the logical pieces of work then it wouldn’t be so scary and unknown right? Post on Facebook, reach out to your nearest and dearest and see if they’re struggling to get something done too, and cheer each other on. I’m able to get a disproportionate amount of work done in the first few hours compared to the rest of my day. With time blocks set, let’s move on to: The most useful productivity tip, ever Plan your day, the night earlier. Try and do it all in one go and you put too much pressure on yourself, juggle too many balls and end up dropping the lot.

Break them into the tiniest things you can do, and give yourself the grace and patience you need to get through them! One focused hour a day of uninterrupted creation time will do far more for you than 6 hours a day of unfocused and perpetually interrupted creation time. Once added, I schedule my tasks for the next day, like this: Scheduling tasks for the next day in Things 3. I’ve got a bit of a motto this year to stop overthinking things and just get things done and that’s to try and make things fun and easy. The app plants a virtual seed and grows a tree during the time you specify, and if you pick up your phone/open other apps, it kills the tree - I know it's not real, but even that little bit of tangibility is enough to motivate me to leave my phone alone!

If you mistrust yourself to follow through on your reward or forfeit, “I only missed the deadline by a day . Fortunately I’ve had the benefit of knowing myself for a little over 40 years now, which means I’ve recognised that I work best to a deadline. Don’t be too hard on yourself if you don’t see the level of performance you’re expecting, right out of the gate. Before starting on any task in the morning, I pick out some tasks that I would like to do in the evening, and reschedule them like this: Scheduling tasks for evening in Things 3.Connect and grow with a powerful network of diverse collaborators from entrepreneurs, seasoned executives, funders, and operators who show up to support you daily along your scaling journey. They are carefully arranged on to a cream and black double mount and placed in an elegant black box frame for the perfect finish. I find it super helpful to learn about my personality type (through things like Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, etc. When you have time where you have less shit to get done, schedule in some time to make your own Get Shit Done Playlist and set yourself up for a fun and productive working session!

Have you ever tried solving a problem, given up, forgotten about it and come back to find an obvious solution? What gets measured gets managed and you might get people measuring face time at the expensive of work that actually matters.In this post, I’ll be talking about the process I follow to keep myself productive, and get things done, every single day. You’ll have all the motivation to kick it off and the moment you hit a speed bump the wheels will fall off. While it can feel unique, lonely and like you’re the only one to have ever experienced it, you’re not alone. The frame is well made and feels solid, the vintage cards give texture and stand out against the plain background with quirkyness you can only get with mixing and matching of the letters from the cards.