Comments on: How to Keep Productivity from Making You a Robot http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:53:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Finding Focus For The New Year http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-1249458 Finding Focus For The New Year Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:17:38 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/#comment-1249458 [...] A Weekly/Daily system, instead, blocks out your work into manageable chunks. Instead of trying to complete everything each day, I just complete my daily list. The same is true for the entire week. With a WD system you get a maximum amount of work done, while leaving yourself time to relax and enjoy selective unproductivity. [...] [...] A Weekly/Daily system, instead, blocks out your work into manageable chunks. Instead of trying to complete everything each day, I just complete my daily list. The same is true for the entire week. With a WD system you get a maximum amount of work done, while leaving yourself time to relax and enjoy selective unproductivity. [...]

]]> By: Organize IT Recap: IM Etiquette, British Pub Guide For Tourists - Practical advice on personal development, productivity and GTD http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-214047 Organize IT Recap: IM Etiquette, British Pub Guide For Tourists - Practical advice on personal development, productivity and GTD Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:36:03 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/#comment-214047 [...] In the meantime Scott Young has written a post about how excessive focus on being productive can make you a robot. I talked on Monday about having the right balance and this is a good [...] [...] In the meantime Scott Young has written a post about how excessive focus on being productive can make you a robot. I talked on Monday about having the right balance and this is a good [...]

]]> By: Scott H Young » How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-175765 Scott H Young » How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:01:28 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/#comment-175765 [...] A Weekly/Daily system, instead, blocks out your work into manageable chunks. Instead of trying to complete everything each day, I just complete my daily list. The same is true for the entire week. With a WD system you get a maximum amount of work done, while leaving yourself time to relax and enjoy selective unproductivity. [...] [...] A Weekly/Daily system, instead, blocks out your work into manageable chunks. Instead of trying to complete everything each day, I just complete my daily list. The same is true for the entire week. With a WD system you get a maximum amount of work done, while leaving yourself time to relax and enjoy selective unproductivity. [...]

]]> By: Scott H Young » How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-175766 Scott H Young » How to Finish Your Work, One Bite at a Time Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:01:26 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/#comment-175766 [...] A Weekly/Daily system, instead, blocks out your work into manageable chunks. Instead of trying to complete everything each day, I just complete my daily list. The same is true for the entire week. With a WD system you get a maximum amount of work done, while leaving yourself time to relax and enjoy selective unproductivity. [...] [...] A Weekly/Daily system, instead, blocks out your work into manageable chunks. Instead of trying to complete everything each day, I just complete my daily list. The same is true for the entire week. With a WD system you get a maximum amount of work done, while leaving yourself time to relax and enjoy selective unproductivity. [...]

]]> By: Rick http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-174730 Rick Sun, 06 Apr 2008 01:56:09 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/#comment-174730 The biggest trick I've learned about being productive is to to get it all out of your head and into some sort of program (like mindmapping or something similar). When my head is clear I'm able to concentrate on what's important. The Getting Things Done concept is helpful but its really only a simple outline that should be used to jumpstart one's own method. -Rick The biggest trick I’ve learned about being productive is to to get it all out of your head and into some sort of program (like mindmapping or something similar). When my head is clear I’m able to concentrate on what’s important. The Getting Things Done concept is helpful but its really only a simple outline that should be used to jumpstart one’s own method.

-Rick

]]> By: Scott Young http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-173797 Scott Young Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:26:45 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/#comment-173797 Vered, I wouldn't necessarily say that the productive stuff is "unimportant" and unproductive stuff is what makes life worth living. I've tried to relate that both should be a source of enjoyment. Just that one area of your life works when you try to make it more efficient and other areas might suffer from the same reasoning. -Scott Vered,

I wouldn’t necessarily say that the productive stuff is “unimportant” and unproductive stuff is what makes life worth living. I’ve tried to relate that both should be a source of enjoyment. Just that one area of your life works when you try to make it more efficient and other areas might suffer from the same reasoning.

-Scott

]]> By: Summy http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-173380 Summy Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:27:54 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/#comment-173380 I agree. That's why my credo is "Think. Do. Enjoy" Thinking is to maximize productivity & maximizing enjoyment Doing is to get things done Enjoying is what you're going for. See <a href="http://www.successmakingmachine.com" rel="nofollow">Success Making Machine</a> for more. I agree. That’s why my credo is “Think. Do. Enjoy”
Thinking is to maximize productivity & maximizing enjoyment
Doing is to get things done
Enjoying is what you’re going for.

See Success Making Machine for more.

]]> By: Vered@MomGrind http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/comment-page-1/#comment-173374 Vered@MomGrind Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:07:01 +0000 http://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2008/04/03/how-to-keep-productivity-from-making-you-a-robot/#comment-173374 I don't know. When so much energy goes into developing systems and habits, even if the entire idea is to have those systems in place in order to make more time for the "important things in life", it still makes me feel like too much energy goes towards creating and maintaining systems. I am a very organized person, by the way. But I don't *think* about it so much. I don't consciously try to develop systems. It's not my main focus in life. I don’t know. When so much energy goes into developing systems and habits, even if the entire idea is to have those systems in place in order to make more time for the “important things in life”, it still makes me feel like too much energy goes towards creating and maintaining systems. I am a very organized person, by the way. But I don’t *think* about it so much. I don’t consciously try to develop systems. It’s not my main focus in life.

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