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How to avoid distractions and nail time management? Understand how to plan your day. The first step is to stop getting things done! No, that wasn't a joke. And by the way, throw that to-do list away; you are just giving yourself anxiety and boosting your procrastination. You can understand it all in this video, where Nir Eyal and Vishen Lakhiani talk about how to focus and stop procrastinating once and for all. Both men have master time management tips that will help you understand how to be productive without feeling overwhelmed. You'll finally understand how to stop procrastinating. This is not about just how to prioritize tasks. It's about how to prioritize your life. It takes knowledge and a growth mindset to the path of self-improvement that they can guide you through. About Vishen Lakhiani: ✅Vishen Lakhiani is the Founder of Mindvalley, an award-winning education movement with millions of students worldwide and growing fast. Through Mindvalley, Vishen has spent over 15 years reimagining the human experience -- to explore the science of helping humans reach their fullest potential. ✅As the hands-on CEO of Mindvalley, Vishen has created Mindvalley Quests, A-Fest, and Mindvalley University, which help shape lives in the personal transformation field. ✅He has led Mindvalley to enter and train Fortune 500 companies, governments, and millions of people worldwide to live their most extraordinary lives. Vishen’s work in personal growth also extends to the public sector as a speaker and activist working to evolve the core systems that influence our lives - including education, work culture, politics, and wellbeing. ✅Vishen is also the New York Times Bestselling author of The Code of the Extraordinary Mind and The Buddha and The Badass, both of which reveal how to think like some of the greatest non-conformist minds of our era and create new rules for life AND work so you define success on your own terms. About Nir Eyal: Nir Eyal is an international bestselling author and lecturer and one of the world’s leading experts in the field of focus and habit formation. His journey into habit formation began at a low point in his life, when he was clinically obese and struggling to focus on his goals. What started as a personal mission then evolved into a series of bestselling books and a remarkable body of pioneering research in human behavior, backed by peer-reviewed studies in dozens of academic journals. Nir’s work has been covered extensively in publications like Time, The Harvard Business Review, Inc., Psychology Today, and many more. He has also been called “The Prophet of Habit-Forming Technology” by The M.I.T. Technology Review, in honor of his co-founding of various companies in this sector and his prolific work helping companies build habit-forming products. Nir’s goal with his first-ever Mindvalley Masterclass is to spread an increasingly urgent message: that by harnessing the right tools and mind shifts, anyone can achieve superhuman focus and productivity - and start achieving more than they ever thought possible. About the "4 Keys to Indistractable Focus" Masterclass: How distracted are you really? Ask yourself these five simple questions, and get instant clarity on your distraction patterns and how a lack of focus may be derailing you from your most important goals and growth. The four keys to becoming Indistractable: Use this simple step-by-step process to break free from your distractions and unwanted habits and create a quantum leap in your productivity, happiness, and performance. Where 90% of your distractions come from: Your no. 1 source of distractions isn’t your smartphone, chatty co-workers, or even your kids. Instead, it’s something much, much closer to home. The 10-minute distraction breaker technique: Use this ingenious technique the next time you feel your attention wandering towards a distraction, and watch as your brain rapidly regains its focus, so you can do more of what really matters. Tear up your to-do list: Discover why this common productivity technique may be destroying your focus and effectiveness, and replace it with a far superior ‘Time Box Calendar’ system that dramatically improves your personal life, your work, and your relationships. Struggling with your willpower? Here’s the secret tool used by many of the world’s top performers to consistently do more and be more - without a single willpower battle. 📌 How to stop being overwhelmed and regain your power in life? Check out Nir Eyal's FREE Masterclass on indestructible focus here 👉 https://go.mindvalley.com/6RNBDM2N —— 🎉 NEW VIDEOS OUT EVERY WEEK 🎉 #NirEyal #VishenLakhiani #Subscribe

Hey. Neville Here. I've always been a big to-do list nerd, and here's the way I've been making to-do lists for the last four years. This might work for you. It might NOT work for you. Either way, give it a try and see if it improves your productivity. http://www.appsumo.com/to-do-list-method/ ----- Hey everyone! I want to share a quick to-do list hack. Now, this not really a hack more than it’s just how I do my to-do list. I’ve been a freak about this for years. And here is the to-do list that I’ve been using for 2-3 years now - something along those lines. I actually keep all of them if you want to see. So..here’s what it is. It’s essentially just a legal pad and a pen. I mean nothing special. At the top I write the date and over here (directly below) I write all the stuff I got to do for the day. Nothing really that unusual yet. On the side, I don’t know when this started, but I started putting my appointments and stuff on this right-hand side (approximate the quarter right-side of the page). So at 8:30 I have to go to Brad’s party at Gurerro’s. That’s all. That’s my task for today. Then over here (below the appointments box on the right hand side) - I started working at 10am. So, 10 am, 11am, 12pm, 1pm... that’s where I write down what I’ve done for the day. So I’ve tracked what I’ve done. If I have all these filled up at the end of the day, then I got a good eight or ten hours of work done. So, that’s good. If I only have a couple of these boxes filled up, it means the day was not that productive. Anyhow, another cool trick I use is...and this really helped me whenever I’m procrastinating. Is that sometimes you look at all the things on your to-do list and you’re like, “oh my god which one do I start first? blah blah blah…” Hang on. Here’s how you solve it: A piece of paper, with a piece of tape on it. Ok? I’ve been using this trick for years. And I still use it when I’m feeling a little lackadaisical. Boom. Stick that over this whole thing (stick it over all your to-dos on your to-do list). Wow I did a horrible job at that. Ok. I was trying to be cool. Sorry. So. I have this thing over my to-do list now. This is how I’ll wake up to my to-do list in the morning. And what i’ll do is lift this up (the piece of paper with tape on) and scooch it down to the first thing (the first task on the to-do list). I have to write this “Quitting Your Job” post that I have in a Word doc and post it on my blog. So, at some point today, I’m just going to start doing that. And that’s the only thing I'll do until I’m done with it. So until I get this done and then scratch it out, then I - “BOOP” - move this down one. Then I have to do the next thing on that list. So then throughout the day I keep going down down down. And by the end I’m done. Now to prove that this is actually the way I use my to-do list, check out this binder I have. It’s pretty thick and filled with a lot of pages. And let’s open. Well the first page was: ya know, the other to-do list from the other day, another to-do list from another day, and another to-do list, and another, and another, and another..oh and here’s my monthly goals from 2011 November. I put my calendars in here, whenever I’m done with them. As you can see right there - all scratched out. From 2011 March 23rd, here’s my to-do list. I can tell that I got about 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 about 8 hours of work done. And I write a little summary at the bottom. As you can see, I’ve been using this for a long time. And this has been a fantastic method for me to get stuff done with. I’ve tried computer stuff, I’ve tried all sorts of electronic things. But so far, the good old pen and paper for my daily to-do list is the number one thing. And my favorite part, is when you get done with it, you get to.. “CHICKA CHICKA CHICKA CHICKA” ...scratch something out. That’s the best feeling in the world. Hope you learned something from this. Hope it makes you a little more productive.

To learn more about how to create effective To-Do Lists, see our article at https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_05.htm?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=newHTE_05&utm_content=description A To-Do Lists is an essential tool to help you keep track of your tasks and activities. Keeping a well organized and prioritized To-Do List can help you beat work overload, reduce stress and help you focus on high value activities. For more information, watch this video!