Hi steemit community, today I want to tell how increase personal effectiveness on own personal experience using a variety of techniques

1. Take advantage of Zeigarnik effect

The brain has a built-intrusive constantly reminded of the things that you have left unfinished, thus pushing you to finish the task. This is the effect Zeigarnik, and it will help you complete the cases that you have already started.

It does not matter whether you like the problem to be solved, or not, make at least one tiny step toward her.
Faced with a creative crisis and can not write? Open a blank file and start typing anything - whatever you like. We need to start planning the wedding? Start by finding a wedding bouquet. It is necessary for tomorrow to develop a marketing strategy of the company? Write down a couple of ideas on the video to start.

In 99% of cases you will work on a task to the end.

2. Use project management tools (not only for the workers Affairs)

Our brains do not like challenges. When he is confronted with any abstract goal, say "to come up with monthly marketing campaign", he immediately falls into a depression and prefers to do the usual things with light. +

That is why it is necessary to share every great thing on a few simple, tiny, achievable steps.

There are myriad and free and paid applications for managing personal projects. I like the visual approach to managing Casual.

In other words, you draw a visual map that allows you to cast the entire project at a glance, plus helps make small steps toward your goal.

3. Change your habits

We all have habits and change them very difficult. Nevertheless, one clever solution to this problem can be found in the book of Charles Duhigg (Charles Duhigg) «Force of habit." The author calls it a cycle of habit. In short, the habit is made up of three components: a stimulus ( "trigger" that precedes the usual behavior), habitual behavior (actual repetition of actions) and reward (external and internal reward that you get for the performance of usual activities).

Now the bad news - to stimuli you can not affect. The good news - you can change habitual behavior.

There are a lot of unproductive things that I did and I do, but I always felt guilty for the fact that the first thing in the morning start to send the posts to social networks and media. The stimulus - to share in his blog with new posts - there's nothing wrong. But I know that I can quickly get involved in senseless wandering around the web for several hours, and it will make a confusion in my day.

Solution - to plan what to do in the networks and media, the night before. Set for itself the exact time when to do it and do it every day.

This approach is applicable to all stimuli that lead to negative behavior.

Every time you run your new familiar action, make sure you reward yourself for it. Think for yourself a ritual that will help you to anticipate their negative behavior, such as mindless web surfing, spending money or eating sweets, and every time you manage to avoid it, reward yourself with something pleasant.

Repeat for 21 days, until the new habit will not stick.

4. Use the rule of 90 minutes

About 50 years ago, neuroscientist Nathaniel Kleitman (Nathaniel Kleitman) discovered that our body switches from the peak of activity to decline every 90 minutes throughout the day. This phenomenon is also known as the ultradian rhythm. Simply put, we can be productive only for 90 minutes.

What happens after 90 minutes? We begin to look for additional fuel in the form of caffeine, sweet bars or their own stress hormones: epinephrine, norepinephrine and cortisol. At this point, we lose focus, we cease to think clearly and to see a complete picture.

My last day was like this: I got to the airport and worked in a coffee house 90 minutes before landing (there was no Wi-Fi), during the flight I saw the film and went back to work on the train from Switzerland to France. When I was home, I quickly checked the inbox, supper and worked another 90 minutes.

As a result, in just 4.5 hours, I did most of the work on which the earlier I would spend 8-hour working day.

5. Set your priorities to the last

One head of the Pentagon brilliantly articulated the essence of the Council:

First, I make a list of priorities: first, second, third and so on. And then I expunged all that is lower than the third.
This is the golden rule for any daily task list. All tasks after the third carry on the next day.

You can not determine what the problem is more important?

Consider whether there is dependency between tasks. Can I take a step A, without making the step B? If not, then the problem is more important B. Choose the tasks that affect your future success.
Use matrix solutions.

6. Arrange a "day of airport"

For me best job - Airports and airplanes. In fact, I often choose to fly with a transfer than direct (they, among other things, is cheaper by at least $ 100), and try to complete as many cases in the days when I was in the way, and not when working from home.

Now, let me explain.

Do you have a strictly limited amount of time (before the departure or before planting) and limited free Wi-Fi. This means that you can run sprints for 90 minutes to stay at peak productivity.

You have nothing to be distracted when you're sitting on the plane: your phone is switched off, and remains the only effective net work to be performed for a limited time. I often try to recreate a similar atmosphere at home: disconnect the internet and 90 minutes doing their work without being distracted for anything else.