A Simple but Powerful Productivity Tip - from Jerry Seinfeld
This is not exactly a billion dollar idea, or perhaps it is, who knows!
Read this while browsing through the posts at Business Opportunities Weblog - Dane Carlson shares a simple trick (which was in turn told him by Jerry Seinfeld), on how to make sure you did something (in this case, writing) continuously:
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Here’s how it worked.
He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker.
He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day. “After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain.”
“Don’t break the chain.” He said again for emphasis.
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Dane says he has used this simple technique for many activities of his over the years, successfully. What a simple idea.
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