This is a post about a lifehack that helps you be productive every day. With little effort. But before we get to that a couple of my favourite marriage jokes.

1. marriage isn’t a word, it’s a sentence.
2. get married first thing in the morning, if it goes wrong at least the whole day isn’t wasted.

Those jokes were easier to tell (and safer) when 90% of my friends and family weren’t married. But there is a reason to for the jokes, the second one anyway.

If you’ve ever gone through a day procrastinating, or not getting anything done and then beating yourself up about it this may help. Start the day with 30 minutes of work. Just 30 minutes, and of anything of importance. And it has to be the first thing. That does not include checking email, news reading or even my favourite pseudo-work item – planning.

After the 30 minutes of work, do anything you like. You can waste the rest of the day if you want. The thing is that you will be less likely to do so and even if you do, you can look back on your day and see that you got something done. At least you didn’t waste your whole day. *boom boom. I thank-you, I’ll be here all week*

Posted on April 20th, 2009 by Ian Cheung
Filed under: GTD