Great tips, we have to keep switching it up too as some techniques lose their effectiveness over time.
One technique that helps me occasionally when I’m really distracted, is to like gamify it. I’ll just keep a piece of paper and add a check in the margin every time I get distracted but brought myself back on task, or like a “special” checkmark when I was just starting to get distracted but caught it before getting all the way distracted!
Anyway yeah whatever tricks you can do. I’m big on tactility and making marks on paper so my tricks/tools/systems involve a lot of notebooks and highly idiosyncratic symbols and checklist flows (like [~] means kind of done lol)
I’m quite interested in gamification options - as you say, you do need to change your “tricks” every now and again, as they can stop working.
Many years ago, I used to use a thing called “Habitica” (wiki link) which was sort of like playing your task list as an RPG, which I think worked well for me for a little while. Looks like it’s still up and running though, so might be worth a look :)
Great tips, we have to keep switching it up too as some techniques lose their effectiveness over time.
One technique that helps me occasionally when I’m really distracted, is to like gamify it. I’ll just keep a piece of paper and add a check in the margin every time I get distracted but brought myself back on task, or like a “special” checkmark when I was just starting to get distracted but caught it before getting all the way distracted!
Anyway yeah whatever tricks you can do. I’m big on tactility and making marks on paper so my tricks/tools/systems involve a lot of notebooks and highly idiosyncratic symbols and checklist flows (like
[~]means kind of done lol)I’m quite interested in gamification options - as you say, you do need to change your “tricks” every now and again, as they can stop working.
Many years ago, I used to use a thing called “Habitica” (wiki link) which was sort of like playing your task list as an RPG, which I think worked well for me for a little while. Looks like it’s still up and running though, so might be worth a look :)