<story><title>Become a 10x Programmer by Managing Your Time Better</title><url>http://nickjanetakis.com/blog/schedules-arent-a-constraint-on-life-they-let-you-live-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>M4v3R</author><text>&amp;gt; It’s easy to fall into habits like slacking off with Youtube, HackerNews and other social platforms – but have you ever stepped back to think how destructive it is?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I call it the “social loop of death” where you make your rounds on various sites and before you know it, 3.5 hours have past and you haven’t gotten anything done.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; You end up getting 60 minutes worth of actual work done in an 8 hour day.&lt;p&gt;I feel like someone installed cameras in my home. This is exactly me. What&amp;#x27;s even worse, I know that I have this problem and nothing seems to help. Scheduling, website blocking, working out of home all failed after some brief time. Any other suggestions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spaced_out</author><text>The only solution is to be more self-disciplined, and there is no magic trick for that.  Discipline takes time and effort to develop, and you&amp;#x27;ll be disappointed with yourself plenty of times along the way.  The only secret is to keep trying.&lt;p&gt;To brag slightly, but maybe add some perspective, for many years I wanted to learn to speak Spanish.  Now, I&amp;#x27;m at the point where I can read the news in Spanish with hardly any difficulty, have read a few high-school level books, and can hold conversations, even on engineering topics, without too many mistakes.&lt;p&gt;For years it was just something I kind of wanted and put off, but at some point I wanted it bad enough, that I committed, and followed through, with spending a few hours every day studying.  Sure, sometimes things just came up and I missed a day or so, other times I fell into my old patterns of playing video games after work and was disappointed in myself, but everyone gets disappointed in themselves sometimes (otherwise you must have no shame whatsoever).  The important thing is to just try again tomorrow.&lt;p&gt;Anyways, I didn&amp;#x27;t really mean for this to sound braggy, but I did want to answer your post.  Things like working from home and organizing and&amp;#x2F;or coming up with a scheduling system helps some people, it may even help you, but you won&amp;#x27;t develop more discipline overnight.  In my opinion, the only secret to becoming more productive with your time is not never give up trying to be more productive with your time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Become a 10x Programmer by Managing Your Time Better</title><url>http://nickjanetakis.com/blog/schedules-arent-a-constraint-on-life-they-let-you-live-it</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>M4v3R</author><text>&amp;gt; It’s easy to fall into habits like slacking off with Youtube, HackerNews and other social platforms – but have you ever stepped back to think how destructive it is?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; I call it the “social loop of death” where you make your rounds on various sites and before you know it, 3.5 hours have past and you haven’t gotten anything done.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; You end up getting 60 minutes worth of actual work done in an 8 hour day.&lt;p&gt;I feel like someone installed cameras in my home. This is exactly me. What&amp;#x27;s even worse, I know that I have this problem and nothing seems to help. Scheduling, website blocking, working out of home all failed after some brief time. Any other suggestions?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swsieber</author><text>Change your browser? There is research (I&amp;#x27;d have to find it) that says addictive behavior is strongly attached to your environment.&lt;p&gt;The example I heard is that soldiers who got addicted to drugs overseas have a much better time at home if they quit before coming back - then the addiction is associated purely with where they served overseas, and not at all at home. We&amp;#x27;re talking an order of magnitude more successful.&lt;p&gt;Sadly, I don&amp;#x27;t remember many details - so take the above with a grain of salt. I think the above was in relation to vietnam, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure.&lt;p&gt;Edit: You could probably do a lot with this - you could change your broswer theme, get a plugin that applies a theme to websites, switch up your desk layout, move your desk area, etc.</text></comment>