Wednesday, August 15, 2007

A Simple but Powerful Productivity Tip - from Jerry Seinfeld

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.

Read the full post from here

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