Comments on: Trick Yourself Into Working Better

By: wildeaugust

wildeaugust — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:57:54 +0000

something tells me that tricks don’t really work. You know that procrastination monkey is always scratchin’. Sometimes we actually believe that its not there and we think that we can trick it. See it..that’s the only trick I know

By: Wojciech Kruszewski

Wojciech Kruszewski — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 21:01:04 +0000

Such tricks are a gateway drug for me. I mean it works, but next time I need more.

No… What does seem to work for me is developing a good grip on reality.

I used to do that: setting my clock 5 minutes forward and then going for a meeting at last possible meeting (according to the clock). But… this made me too optimistic (I can leave at last possible minute and always get there on time).

Now, I leave so that I’d be 5 minutes earlier. And work hard to get the project done a week before the deadline, because I know that I need extra time for unexpected situations.

I don’t plan to make it before a deadline. I try to get the meaning of *dead* line – something I don’t want to get too close to.

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Creative Tip: Go Looking For Inspiration In All the Wrong Places — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:01:18 +0000

[...] in my series of counter-intuitive tips, the first being the one in which I advised everyone to lie to themselves in order to get more work done. This time around, the tips I’m providing don’t involve any self-deception, but they [...]

By: Guano Dubango

Guano Dubango — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:49:49 +0000

This is like convincing yourself you are going out with a starlet, when you are going out with a horrible ape.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:01:16 +0000

By moving the clock back you mean move it forward right. So for example right now the actual time is 8 pm, but my wall clock says its 8:07