Comments on: How to Get Passionate About Boring Tasks

By: Danny

Danny — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:58:11 +0000

I thought we should stress the importance of analyzing progress. At least, I think that works wonders fo me.I’m a orchestral composer and when I’m working through writing blocks I usually take some time to see how far I’ve come, whether thats how much of a particular piece has been finished or how much more talented(humbly speaking) I’ve become over the years by writing consistently. It may not be applicable to all things but it is definitely important for me.

I also love the “two minutes” idea. I’ll have to give that a try. I just hope I won’t get too logical about it and assume that I’m actually expecting more than “two minutes.” I hate it when I do things like that :-/

great thread

By: My Secret Drug

My Secret Drug — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:01:13 +0000

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By: Leszek Cyfer

Leszek Cyfer — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:01:30 +0000

There’s the Pomodoro technique – basically you work for 25 minutes and then rest or do sth completely different for five minutes. You count everything in pomodores – for example “this will take 3 pomodores” – and if it’s too short, you can throw more pomodores at it

http://www.pomodorotechnique.com (they’ve got free pdf ebook about it)

By: Sam - Landing pages

Sam - Landing pages — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:10:26 +0000

Timing myself, is something I really lag. I would start my day with a great action plan. But as soon as I get in some trouble, my mind drifts.

I need to work on this.

By: Gunjan

Gunjan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:29:52 +0000

Thanks Glen, The tips are really good… Thought of sharing with you things that I usually do when I find some of my tasks boring…
I keep a small interesting thing at the end of the boring tasks…i love to read pluginid. So, I keep a target that once i complete that boring task, i will read 2 posts on pluginid…this makes me do my boring task with a smile on my face as i am quite keen to do my interesting task once my boring task is done. It also helps me to do my boring task easily… I know this may sound silly but it works for me…

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:22:36 +0000

Hi Mac,

Excellent comment which I can really relate to.

Something I’ve noticed on my 6 week challenge that instead of focusing on the things I can’t do, just focus on the things I want (can) do and the other stuff will naturally filter out of my head.

I think that’s similar to what you’re saying here.

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:21:13 +0000

You can’t be taht much older than me dude

Interesting what time frames people are choosing. Any reason you chose 33 minutes?

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:20:48 +0000

Awesome Jonathan, good to see I’m not the only one

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:20:30 +0000

Hey Clayton,

ViperChill will be focused on making money online and building remarkable websites to do so. I like the idea of a 30 minute challenge, as I said to Brian I’ve actually just implemented something similar recently.

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:19:39 +0000

Yeah yeah