A Simple Method to Boost Your Productivity

There are many strategies, methods, and guidelines to increase your productivity (the GTD method, Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive, the role of habits, …).

Recently I tried some methods I’ve picked up in Feel-Good Productivity by Ali Abdaal.

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One of the simplest ones is to ask yourself a single question:

“How would this look like if it were any fun?”

Why is this powerful?

How we feel about the things we are doing depends a lot on our mindset and how we approach certain things. If we start something thinking it won’t be fun, it often ends up being exactly that - boring and not fun.

But if we ask ourselves how we could make a rather boring task fun we start with a positive mindset and often making something more fun can be as simple as e.g. turning on some music, making a game out of it, or doing it together with others.