Take Control of Your Productivity

Implement Best Practices

Everything preceding has been recommendations for things you should do to set up your system. This chapter is a collection of things you can do to make it work better for you. It’s neither exhaustive nor mandatory, but chances are, you’ll find ideas here that will save you quite a bit of trouble.

Some of these practices are a feedback loop, also known as virtuous or vicious cycles. We’re shooting for the virtuous ones. They’re when something positive is crystallized into a method of informing the future ways you do it, and something negative is noted to be avoided. The more often you go to the gym, the more you’ll enjoy going to the gym. (Or so I hear.) At first, nearly everything you plan during a review period is no ...