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Take time outs to reassess. Take a break to make sure that you’re working on the right thing and spending the right amount of time on it.
Take time outs to reward yourself for focusing. If you’re on a roll, don’t quit, but if you need a breather, give yourself that reward.
Have a pad and pen ready to jot down ideas. That way you won’t lose ideas, you can get back to work quickly, and you can take time later to develop the ideas.
Contrariness: get in the habit of noticing when you’ve made a statement to yourself and make the opposite statement to see what you can learn (for example, if you were watching the people in black in the video, it’s more likely you would’ve seen the gorilla, since it was black too).
Have tasks written down so you can refer back to the list, not your memory. If you insist on relying upon memory, one of those balls is going to bonk you on the head.
Take a break to tell someone else what you’re doing; a coworker, colleague or friend. Sometimes just hearing yourself talk makes your own ideas clearer to you.

» Ways to see better from Lifehacker
The Productivity Goal weblog lists a few behaviors and exercises that will help you see more clearly as you work. A couple of my favorites: Have a pad and pen ready to jot down ideas. That way you won't lose... [Read More]

Claire, these are excellent tips. I am FLABBERGASTED that of all the thousand-plus souls who moseyed through here, NOBODY bothered to leave any kind of comment. That irks me to no end! Let's figure this one out - are people just not aware of how to comment at our blogs, or are they all afraid because of our awesome expertise ;P, or what? Let's talk about this some more and get some ideas rolling. There should have been at least 50 comments here already, I think.

Posted by: Easton Ellsworth | May 5, 2006 7:15 AM | Permalink to Comment

Hi - well first to the site via Lifehacker and I really like your tips; I do most of them already but 'tell someone else' (kinda like Mcall's Mystic Monitor I guess) and 'contrariness' are new to me - I'll give them an go and see what happens.

Posted by: blah | May 5, 2006 7:39 AM | Permalink to Comment

Easton,
Perhaps I need to ask more questions, specific ones, in my posts to get that ball rolling. I will try that.

blah,
Thanks for the compliment! What is McCall's Mystic Monitor? It sounds fascinating, but I couldn't find any info about it on Google.

Posted by: Claire | May 5, 2006 2:36 PM | Permalink to Comment

» Productive Contrariness from ProductivityGoal
One of the tips I gave in an earlier post was about contrariness. I suggested taking a statement you make to yourself and telling yourself the opposite instead. It’s a way to give yourself a “whack on the side of the head”... [Read More]

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