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There are several ways to become more productive, but there is a common thread among all productive people: they always prioritize their tasks.They start their day by doing the most critical thing, and they only move to the second task after they completed the first.That’s because they know how to protect their time and use it wisely. Prioritizing your work forces you to write down all your tasks and that clears your mind too.When you have a clear mind, and you know exactly what to do to move the furthest ahead, your productivity goes through the roof.I suggest planning your days the night before, so when you go to bed, you have a totally clear mind, and you can rest better too.If you want to take it up a notch, you can even make your three-year vision, one-year goal, four quarterly goals, your weekly task list, and your daily to-do list.This system forces you to create an actionable plan for yourself so you can decide how fast you want to progress. I have been doing this for my online businesses (and personal life) and, I am now the most productive I have ever been.You can either use a notebook or buy a planner like the Phoenix Planner. I have been using the Phoenix planner for a while, and I will never buy anything else. It has all the productivity techniques I use in one place. If you sign up for their mailing list, they even send you the printable PDF version for free, but if you want to buy it, you can use the code PHOENIXDEN for 20% off (I am an affiliate, but only because I am a repeat customer).Regardless of what you use, make sure to write things down to free mental bandwidth and prioritize your work. These two things alone will propel you forward!

What is one example of an unrealistic goal?You are on your lunch break and as you’re eating you’re scrolling through Instagram. Lots of photos showing people in different settings. Vacationing on some faraway beach. Riding their motorbike on a winding road overlooking the ocean. Eating pasta in a restaurant surrounded by friends, looking like they’re having a great time. There’s one person taking a selfie in front of their new, bright red sports car. Slowly you start feeling envious and you say to yourself, I want to have a car like that. That’s my goal. You start noticing more photos from the same person, and they’re showing their house, their dogs, maybe a second car parked in the garage. And you say again, I want that life, that’s my goal. One day ago, you didn’t even think about red cars or big houses, but right now it’s all you think about.In contrast, what’s a realistic goal?You’re in your final year at college, thinking about what you’ll do after you graduate. You already started applying for jobs in your city and other cities farther away. Currently, you take a bus or train to school but you know that if you move to a bigger city, you’ll probably need to have a car. You think to yourself, How can I plan for that? A classmate told me that when they find a job, they’ll buy a new car. But I don’t want to deal with monthly payments. I want to save up some money and buy a used car. That’s my goal. You wonder how much will a used car cost, so you go online and do a little research. You calculate how long it will take to save for that amount. Next, you find a part-time job that will generate income on the side as you finish up the school year. You’ll save up for a used car that you’ll use to commute to the new job.Did you notice the difference?There are several things that make a goal realistic.It’s a goal that’s the right fit for YOU.Sounds obvious, right? But in many cases, you’d be surprised. Quite often when we are busy thinking about goals, we easily get distracted by what we see and hear. Other people’s shiny red cars and big houses, but also friends’ and family members’ suggestions, advice, and projections of what they want for you and who they want you to become. That’s why it’s important to separate a goal that you truly want for yourself from a goal that was set by someone else, whether it’s someone you know or someone you follow on Instagram. Ask yourself these questions.Is this someone else’s goal? If it is, it won’t be realistic for you and your specific personal or professional aspirations. And if it’s not realistic for you, then you will have a tough time being motivated to work on achieving it.How deeply do I care about reaching it? Is it something I’ve always wanted for myself, but was afraid to define it more clearly? Is it a goal that, once I reach it, will give me more confidence and boost my life experience?It fits into the BIG PICTURE of your life.The big picture of your life is what I like to call “blue sky thinking.” It’s the ideal version, the ultimate version, the scenario you dream of but so far that’s all it is — a dream. So how do you create this big picture? By asking yourself the following questions.Where do I want to be 1, 5, 10 years from now? Don’t think only geography, but more in terms of personal development and skill level.Who do I want to become? A COO of a startup, owner of a real estate empire, scientist, innovator, chef, writer?What is my dream scenario? Do I want to live in a specific city, have a partner to share my life journey with, become an expert at something, be surrounded by smart people who contribute to my personal growth?It is an ACTIONABLE goal.Actionable means that you create a goal that you can do something about. That’s where you go from “blue sky thinking” to taking specific steps so that your goals don’t just stay in your thoughts and imagination. To do this properly, you’ll need a bit of time. Set aside an hour or two one evening to do the following.Write down your top 3 personal goals. They can be anything you’ve been obsessing about for years, or something you’ve been considering more seriously in the past year or two.Under each goal, write down 3 things you need to do on a consistent basis to get you closer to each one. This might mean you’ll practice a skill three times a week, or devote one hour a day to focus and do research, or sign up for a class to broaden your knowledge in a field.Create a schedule for the week ahead. Block off time to make progress in the areas you've identified. If you don’t have a lot of free time, block off 15–30 minutes to start. It doesn’t seem like a lot, but you’d be surprised how much that time adds up without you having to give up on other things that you need to do during the day.It keeps you ACCOUNTABLE.What’s the point of doing anything if you don’t measure your success? How will you know if you’re on the right or wrong path? In this case, once you've followed your schedule for a whole week, make an assessment of the progress you made. Think about the following questions and be honest in answering them.Did some activities take more time than you anticipated? If they did, why did it happen?What was easy? Why do you think it wasn’t tough as you had initially thought?What could you have done better? Can you identify where you could have used shortcuts?How can you improve the following week? For example, can you dedicate more time to one activity, even if it’s only half an hour?How will you measure your success? Can you set milestones to reach by the end of each week or create deadlines to keep you on track? Will you track your progress in a journal or a spreadsheet?It starts off as one SUPER SMALL goal.When you make a goal very small, it’s guaranteed to remain realistic. Try practicing this mini habit thing in the morning. Start the day by asking yourself, “What is the ONE THING I am committed to completing today?” I’ve been practicing it for years, and it’s helped me boost focus, simplify my day-to-day life, and prioritize what’s most relevant.Write the question in large letters on a sheet of paper. Hang it on your bedroom or bathroom wall. The important part is that you can easily see it as you’re brushing your teeth or getting ready.Read it out loud as you start each day. Come up with an answer on the spot. The trick is to get your eyes on it so that it becomes second nature and you don’t even think about having to glance over to it any more.Keep your answer top of mind throughout the day. When you keep thinking about it, you’re less likely to get distracted by other things that take you away from the goal that is important to you.📖✏️ A little extra on this topic:I created a workbook based on these tips called 5 Ideas for Setting Realistic Goals. It’s a 35-page printable workbook with step-by-step instructions, templates, and a list of recommended reading materials.

Ask and ye shall receive. How can a man know what chores to do if she does not ask him? I confess to being a rotten housekeeper by nature, I like to be pointed in the right direction by my s.o. in a polite way, does it demean her to ask me nicely?Since these are so many different questions rolled into one question space, and there is a substantial amount of subtext, I’ll break this down into manageable smaller units I’ll address one after the other.Ask and ye shall receive.This presupposes that household work is something people inherently need to be asked to do. That’s an interesting way of looking at this.I have a counter-question for you: Who do you think asks your S.O. to do x unit of household work by t timeslot? Who do you think asks people who live alone to do x unit of household work by t timeslot?See where I’m going with this?How can a man know what chores to do if she does not ask him?There are several ways a man could go about this.1. He could sit down with a piece of paper and a writing utensil and make his own list[1][2] of household chores he himself thinks need doing.2. He could make a spreadsheet[3] listing the household chores he thinks need doing.3. He could make use of the myriad ready-made spreadsheets[4], to-do-list-apps[5], and/or to-do features in his calendar app on his smartphone[6] to organise the chores he thinks need doing.4. If he’s unsure as to which chores he thinks need doing, he could read one of the many excellent books[7] on household management available from his local library or the internet, and compile a list of chores he thinks need doing from there.5. He could also make use of the many ready-made printable cleaning rotas[8], household management apps[9], household management websites[10][11], and/or when-and-how-to-do-chores videos[12][13] available to him out there, many of them free of charge.I confess to being a rotten housekeeper by nature,Most of us are. Housekeeping and household management, much like other forms of basic adulting, are skills one can learn[14][15]. There are also home economics courses[16] available through secondary school systems and in adult education.I like to be pointed in the right direction by my s.o. in a polite way,And I would like a pony and for my slipped vertebra to spontaneously realign.Alas, we don’t always get what we like.Another question that comes up for me when I read this passage of your question is this: Why are you working from the assumption that your S.O. is the only person in charge of managing who does what when?Have you got some sort of health issues around executive functioning[17] that preclude you from managing your own duties and chores? If so, what strategies do you use to manage this in your employment context? Have you considered using these workplace self-management strategies[18] in your home environment?Have the two of ever transparently and openly agreed to a model where your S.O. is the only one in charge of managing household chores?Because by the sound of it, the two of you are working from very different, indeed conflicting assumptions[19]. You may also be talking at or right past each other at completely different communication levels[20].Your S.O. seems to assume you are capable of seeing and doing and managing your own chores - and you seem to be working from the assumption that you can’t see and do and manage your own chores, that you need someone else, notably your S.O. to do the seeing and managing parts of this work, leaving you to only do the doing part of household chores.does it demean her to ask me nicely?It doesn’t demean her - It just leaves her to do five sixths of the work on her own. While you appear to refuse to self-startingly do any of the executive functioning parts of the household work: The seeing, and the managing part of household chores. You are only doing the doing part of chores, and only those someone else assigns.There appears to be a very unequal distribution of household labour in your relationship. This is something that can create a lot of conflict in a relationship[21].Seeing as this appears to be such a conflict-laden issue for the two of you, and the conflict has already escalated[22] to a point where she is verbally abusive and you are talking in terms of your helpless victimhood, abdicating from any responsibility or accountability on your part (both of those strategies being counter-productive to conflict resolution[23]), I must assume that the two of you never actually consented to such an unequal division of labour[24] where she is the only one thinking about housework, seeing what needs to be done, and managing who does what when.If she is frustrated and angry that you aren’t seeing or managing any housework without prompt, only doing it upon her explicit request, it sounds to me as if she was frustrated with having to do the extra work of assigning you tasks, and not getting any recognition for it.This sort of additional emotional labour[25] can put a great deal of stress on a person, and indeed on a relationship.Underneath all this, it feels to me as if you are resentful of her treating you as a subordinate or a child or someone else at a power differential.At the same time, you are not behaving like a peer or partner, you are not behaving like a self-managing equal - you are expecting her (within the confines of this question, you are outright asking her) to manage you.And then you both get frustrated and resentful if and when she does manage you.This is a power imbalance you’ve both enabled, and you can both do things to address and equalise this power imbalance.Since you’re the one asking the question, I’m focusing on what you can do to empower[26] yourself.As soon as you start empowering yourself, seeing yourself as an equal, behaving like an equal, taking responsibility for your own actions and inactions, managing yourself, taking the pressure off her to manage you… the power imbalance can start to equalise, and hopefully, everyone’s resentment over the power imbalance pattern in your relationship[27] can start resolving itself.Have you considered negotiating a mutually agreeable cleaning rota for the two of you[28], so she doesn’t have to constantly do that additional labour of managing you, and so that you can be her peer and her partner (as opposed to her subordinate), on equal footing, and refer to your mutual agreement in case of conflict?Best wishesFootnotes[1] How to Make a To Do List[2] How to Write a To-Do List[3] Google Sheets 101: The Beginner's Guide to Online Spreadsheets[4] We Stopped Arguing About Chores After Making One Spreadsheet | Allen Cheng[5] The 11 best to do list apps of 2020[6] The 9 Best Calendar Apps to Stay Organized in 2020[7] Household Management Books[8] Cleaning rota | Weekly cleaning, Cleaning chart printable, Cleaning chart[9] The Best Household Management Apps[10] A Fair Chore Schedule, Automatically[11] Learn Household Management Skills and Techniques[12] https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=household+management[13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqXwBepxzgI[14] How to Learn A New Skill: A Real-World Guide to Mastering Anything[15] How to Learn Any Skill in Under 20 Hours[16] Home economics - Wikipedia[17] What Is Executive Function?[18] 12 Rules for Self-Management[19] Conflict Assumptions[20] Four-sides model - Wikipedia[21] How to Keep Housework From Hurting Your Marriage[22] Friedrich Glasl's model of conflict escalation - Wikipedia[23] Conflict resolution - Wikipedia[24] The Division of Labour Within Households: Men’s Increased Participation?[25] Emotional labour: what is it, and why is everyone talking about it? - BBC Three[26] What Is Personal Empowerment?: Taking Charge of Your Life and Career[27] ASSESSING POWER DIFFERENTIALS IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS — creative core counseling[28] Equal Cleaning For All: Tips For Splitting Chores With Roommates