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by Bvalmont 3389 days ago
- SelfControl app, you can change the timer to 1 month instead of 24 hours, so you are not forced to click it every morning.

- Simple Pomodoro timer, which honestly I use more as a signal for me to get up and stretch my legs a bit.

- Disabled all notifications on phone, macs.

- Things as my todo list, simple and tells me what to focus on every day with recurring todo's.

- Only really visit 3 websites: HN, Designer News & Stack overflow, tagging the interesting posts in the morning, then reading them on Kindle in the evening. Or sometimes between Pomodoro breaks, like now.

- I block all the news websites and other useless information with Opendns.

- Bought a Wacom pen and a mac so I can't play videogames.

- Podcasts for when I'm doing the dishes, Spotify for when I'm doing work.

- No mail, slack before 1pm, I'm most productive in the mornings.

I read in Do The Work that the best thing is to not think, but just start. So I meditate in the morning and try to be completely free of thoughts when I arrive at work, sit down and just start. That was the single thing that made the biggest difference for me. Don't give The Resistance a chance.