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A Busy Student’s Guide to Effortless Productivity — Minimal productivity system
Don’t overcomplicate your life with difficult systems.
Usually many productivity systems make planning more difficult. Because of this, we are often more focused on planning like a perfectionist with pretty layouts instead of actually doing something. Definitely, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. But, it’s only worthwhile if you’re actually committed to take action and get it done. Beautiful and aesthetic layouts are really obsessive and make you look perfect, but to be honest, they might be not really helping you get anywhere.
Instead, to actually get things done, try to take a much simpler approach to productivity, Example — its not always necessary to be perfectly organised and clean, some people work better in messy environments
Here are the steps that I not only follow to plan, but also take action.
Don’t have to many to do lists
The concept of to do lists has become really popular. While there are articles and resources on how to make the ‘perfect’ to do list, striving for perfectionism might be actually decreasing your productivity.
- A to do list for the areas of your life
- A to do list for the day and only if necessary — for the…
