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A productivity gem from Jerry Seinfeld, heavily paraphrased. For anything you wish you were doing every day, like working out or practicing violin or working o
by Towle_ 16y ago
A productivity gem from Jerry Seinfeld, heavily paraphrased.
For anything you wish you were doing every day, like working out or practicing violin or working on your startup: Get a big, yearlong calendar and put it on a wall in your bedroom. Every day you complete your task, mark a big, red "X". Eventually, you'll build up a big string of X's and won't want to break it. That incentive will push you more than you think.
- prawn 16y agoAnd before everyone gets too excited, it's been created as a web-app already a few times!
- snitko 16y agoCould you share a link?
- djm 16y agohere it is: http://dontbreakthechain.com/ http://dontbreakthechain.com/
- harscoat 16y agohttps://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hlkkjgfbfgdcdjnddamlmgbipgbhgppk https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hlkkjgfbfgdcdjnd...
- telemachos 16y agoIf you store code on Github, you can also enroll in a Seinfeld tracker there: http://calendaraboutnothing.com/ http://calendaraboutnothing.com/ I'm having a decent month: http://calendaraboutnothing.com/~telemachus http://calendaraboutnothing.com/~telemachus
- slig 16y agoAlso, joesgoals.com
- irondavycole 16y agoThere's also an iPhone app for this called Daily Deed.
- kristofferR 16y agoand Streaks.
- alisey 16y agoWeb app has an important downside: it's not hanging on your wall. Out of sight, out of mind.
- keefe 16y agoI have such a calendar in my binder but I only do a few weeks at a time. I use the stopwatch feature on my watch to count hours worked and mark that down daily.
- Hexstream 16y agoI used to have really yellow teeth because I brushed my teeth really rarely (thank goodness I never smoked). I've had some periods where I brushed them more often but I'd quickly fall back into hopelessness. Then I hung a small calendar in the bathroom where I cross each day that I brush my teeth, and the "I don't want to break my win streak" feeling is so RIDICULOUSLY compelling that it's been many months now and I brush my teeth almost every day, in fact I didn't miss one day since 1 month and 3 weeks ago. DON'T underestimate the sheer POWER of "win streaks". My teeth are almost white now!
- TheSOB88 16y agoStrange, my teeth are light yellow and I've hardly ever missed a day. Most days I brush twice. From this I'd gathered that tooth discoloration is permanent.
- Hexstream 16y agoWell, I consider that they're "almost white" in relation to the piss-yellow I used to have. But the difference is dramatic nonetheless.