Self-management refers to methods, skills, and strategies by which individuals can effectively direct their own activities toward the achievement of objectives, and includes goal setting, decision making, focusing, planning, scheduling, task tracking, self-evaluation, self-intervention, ...
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Gamification to improve myself
I'm currently working out a way to gamify my daily work / life.
I want to reward myself via a points system, assigning points to tasks I should do but tend to neglect.
These are things like paying ...
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What FUTURE-PROOF software for building & managing a personal BIG knowledge base?
There are some questions similar to this. But i would like to know, what software one should choose, if you go to university for example and are building a knowlegde base of everything you learn & ...
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How to improve Self-Discipline?
What are some specific set of behaviors that lead to self-discipline. Preferably backed by studies/research or confident experience.
What I am trying to achieve is be able to work a specific number ...
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How to motivate people to self-improve themselves?
I'm the curious type of person that likes to learn more, do things in less time, do things better, etc. I take that as a personal challenge and I honestly love it. Of course, it IS a challenge, not ...
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How to solve my personal issues to be productive and happy person
Until two years ago, I was a positive thinker, easily forgot petty issues, and was productive. After that I started studying for a masters in Computer Science and started a full time job. This means I ...
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How to get more experiences out of life?
The older I get the harder it seems to experience something novel. At 38 I feel as though I've eaten most of the low lying fruit. I have some ideas such as skydiving, or bungee, or taking a ...
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Do digital wrist watches have productivity advantages over software based features?
My wife recently received a digital wrist watch (Casio Baby GShock) as a gift. She is a teacher and uses the watch for (other than quickly telling the time) timing her lessons, other presentations and ...
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How to improve self discipline when starting from nothing
It seems that I have no ability to be productive. Outside of the occasional week where feeling accountable to somebody else has kept me on task, I have never had the self discipline to accomplish ...
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Getting productive without logging and tracking?
My question looks rhetorical but it isn't. I am forcing myself to write to-do lists and tracking what I've done, but I found it difficult. I get bored to write lists longer than 10 tasks, so I set ...
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how to get over something stupid done in past?
I have a tendency to act out wierdly and angrily, (usually throwing stuff here and there) when I suddenly remember something stupid that I had done in past, and then bang my head over how stupid I was ...
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How to manage multiple simultaneous private projects?
I have a number of private web design projects that I work on during my spare time. Non of the projects have any real deadline, other than my own urge to finish them.
As there is no real deadline, I ...
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How to stop obsessing over my to-do list?
The past two years have been crazy. In 2010, I graduated from college and my now-husband and I purchased our home. In 2011, I started a master's degree and we got married. This year, I started a ...
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How to improve concentration on more important priorities than facebook?
I used to be a very focused student in school.
But after coming to college after i got access to unlimited internet,freedom my concentration has fallen very steeply.
Even while studying for my final ...
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How to fight over-excitement?
Sometimes I get drowned by my imagination. I'll give an example. An hour ago I was reading some stuff about esoteric programming languages. Then my imagination kicked in. After that I was just sitting ...
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Effectively using a 21 day challenge
Research suggests that it takes 21 days to form a habit. So there are 21 day challanges where you make yourself do something you want to form a habit for for 21 days and it will miraculously be a part ...
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How to get over passive thinking
I need to get some advice on overcoming mental passivity. I have never had efficient study skills before (always managed to be average or above average by cramming), and now that I'm at a top 10 ...
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Burnout in the middle of semester
I am a student studying the last semester of a 2-year Master's course. My performance in the last three semesters has been according to my expectations. In my last winter break, I had spent almost all ...
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Productivity in the gaps
I'm in a situation where I find myself with a few moments of downtime each day where I'm waiting for a bit before starting again. Most of these periods are 10 to 20 minutes long. I can, and do, use ...
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How to use pomodoro technique when doing tasks with dependencies?
The Pomodoro Technique works well for me when I do fixed ,defined tasks like studying using book or working on specific issues .But I struggle with this technique when the task at hand has a lot of ...
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Failure tracking in Kanban tools ? Is it the philosophy of the tool?
I've been trying Kanban tools for a few days, and I do think I can adopt one of those tools really soon. I 'll decide after the 3 weeks routine period if it still fits my need.
I wonder: I immediatly ...
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How do I take out time for my research while working a full time job?
I am working a full time job as a software engineer. I am also doing masters in computer science. I don't have to take any classes this year as I have completed my coursework.
I work from 10 to 7 in ...
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How do I get back to doing what I love?
A little background. I started coding in C++ about 5 years ago. Ever since then, I was sure that I wanted a life in code :) In my last 2 semesters, I wrote quite a bit of code for varied purposes.
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how to maintain a constant productivity level?
I'm facing the following situation: I can work very productively on one or two projects for a couple of weeks (40-60 hours), feeling that nothing (and nobody) can stop me, getting all things done. But ...
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What would be a good way to maintain an academic and professional journal ?
I maintain a journal(diary) to keep track of personal targets, habit changes, etc. and seeing its positive effects, I would like to maintain something similar for academic/professional acivities. The ...
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How to stop worrying on petty issues?
This has been one of my biggest flaw since my childhood. I usually keep worrying about small issues, which brings me into lots of tension, but actually nothing happens. I keep on worrying about what ...
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“It could be done better and more efficiently” at the end of projects
I'm not really an organised person, and my maxim is "two weeks of coding will save you two hours of planning". But before every (simple or complex) project, despite how long I'm planning, drawing ...
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Does it help to have dedicated computer workstations for dedicated types of work?
Has anyone seen research that demonstrates dedicating different computers to specific tasks (separated by physical distance) increases productivity?
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What next after pomodoro technique?
Are there other time organizing or self organising techniques or books/theories/articles would you recommend after pomodoro technique ?
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How to overcome “hyper” sensitivity? [closed]
Two days back I read about the Germans atrocities during world war II. The gas chambers, the scientific experiments of bone transplants without anesthesia, rapes etc. And now my mind is disturbed. I ...
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Being motivated for self study
I am a software professional. I have reached a stage in career where I will have to do something apart from regular coding. I am very confused about what that extra thing should be. Sometimes I think ...
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How to manage undergraduate studies while working full time
I am doing my undergraduate while doing a full time job. My course is Computer science. I am also working as a software developer in a private company. I have big responsibilities at my work because ...
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Tools to represent skills in a graphical way with rating
I have been reading self-assessment articles for few days. I have been thinking to create a nice graphical representation (Venn diagram) of my skill set (input) along with level of expertise for each ...
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How can I obtain audio books?
My greatest personal productivity discovery has been audiobooks.
I've obtained some from people and the net but I tend to consume audio books, listening everywhere I go.
My particular interest in ...
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How to Find the Right Side Project
Productivity soars whenever I find the right side project to work on. However, as soon as the project is finished or whenever I'm working on something that feels boring to me, productivity goes right ...
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Help in determining when it's productive to pause?
I understand there comes a point where you can be so fatigued/stressed/distracted that continuing to work on a project will be less productive than if you were to step away to do something else.
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Self-threatening - destructive or just means to an end
I have been trying out various ways of self-motivating systems, strategies and methods to motivate myself to complete my private projects in time. I often end in a swamp two-thirds in, having trouble ...
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Managing your “life” data? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What FUTURE-PROOF software for building & managing a personal BIG knowledge base?
We all have a ton of information that we store mentally or in files on the computer ...
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How to avoid to-do STACK list?
When making to do list I often have a problem of creating them as Stacks (U know first in last out list ). Some how there will be some items at the top which will block all other items , so until I ...
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What choices can I make during my software developement career to become an ideal candidate for a job when I apply for other companies? [closed]
I am currently a software engineer.Its the start of my career.What choices do I make to become an ideal candidate for the HR/Interviewers,when I apply for interviews after leaving this job? Should I ...
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Which way to manage download and put them in workflow to install
i download many apps from links in this stack and then forget to install all of them is there any way to manage it?
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Recommendations for Productivity videos [closed]
So I'll be doing a lot of commuting next week and I'd like something to watch on the train, can people recommend online videos or podcasts on the subject of Personal Productivity for me? I am a ...
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In what way is the Steve Pavilina blog useful? [closed]
Has anybody followed Steve Pavlina's blog and used his methods with beneficial results ? What specifically have you found there that worked really for you ?
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How to manage daily tasks especially in office [closed]
I am a software engineer. I was proposed for leader role a year back. But I ran away from my responsibility. I compromised with my rating too due to this decision. Again I have stuck in the same ...
