Productivity and Goal

Saw this above pic on Facebook recently.

This really struck me.

It taught me something.

Or rather, it made me realised what I have not been doing.

Let me tell you about the "8 Habits of Highly Unproductive People".

Habit 1: Keep all the unimportant

(And don't care about the important)

Habit 2: Take break anytime you want

(Just have fun!)

Habit 3: Do not care about productivity pitstops.

(Things that limit your productivity? Never mind, let them be!)

Habit 4: Forget about inspirations.

(What's inner muse anyway)

Habit 5: Do not set up barriers to entry

(Make yourself as accessible as possible!)

Habit 6: Do things last minute

(Just have fun first!)

Habit 7: Do not set timelines

(Just do things whenever you want!)

Habit 8: Think that everything is automated.

(Yeah all problems will be solved by themselves)

Well this is not really exactly what I have been doing but it's more or less the same.

I think Habit 1 is the No. 1 culprit. I do way too many unimportant stuff.

So many that I often lose track of what's important and what's unimportant.

I do set timelines, but I often forget about them.

Those unimportant stuff always take away much of my time, leaving less time for important stuff.

Maybe the question here is, what exactly is my goal?

What do I want to achieve?

I realise that question is not clear to me.

That's why every night I still sleep late, and I still oversleep on some days.

Because I'm not sure what I want to achieve.

What I want to do.

So I think from now, I need to write down my goal very clearly.

And paste it on my wall, so that I can see everyday.

Yes, I need to be reminded everyday.

Otherwise, I really don't know what will happen.

Mistakes

Every day we make mistakes.

And this week I've already made 2.

Most likely I've made more than that. It's just that I only acknowledge 2.

Why?

It's not that I don't know it's a mistake.

I knew it deeply in my heart.

But I still committed the mistake.

So what should I do when I commit a mistake?

Punish myself?

How?

I remember how many people said we should make more mistakes so that we can correct ourselves.

But what if we become so indifferent to mistakes that we don't care anymore?

What if we just make mistakes but don't bother correcting them anymore?

I think the important thing is to CORRECT the mistakes, and not make them.

If you keep making the same mistakes then it's never good.

So, what I can do now, is to prevent myself from making the same mistake ever again.

If I do again, then I really have to think of a punishment for myself.

Now

2012 is here.

2011 seemed like a sleeping year.

I seemed to almost sleep throughout the year.

What have I done?

What have I achieved?

I don't know.

In fact some things seemed to have worsened.

What's the reason?

What resulted in this?

After much thoughts, I found out the culprits.

They are the words "tomorrow" and "later".

I realised I keep saying "I'll start from tomorrow", or "I'll do it later".

Ending up getting nothing done at all.

I should say goodbye to "tomorrow" and "later".

I should welcome "now" and let him be my good friend.

I realised that's the most important thing.

Or at least that's what's important to me now.

So.

"I'll start now."