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One of the key success factors when you create a start-up is definetely to stay focus and work as much as you can. This is very complicated, specially when you’re alone and when you do not have team members to challenge you, to help you and to motivate! I have always had some &%2
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12 months ago
I don't stay focus :)
12 months ago
Keeping my mind with only what am I going at that time.
12 months ago
12 months ago
Tip : when you don't need Internet, turn off it. I know that today programmers like to copy/past snippets from different sources, ask questions on forums, etc. And more generally, people like during working days to write comments on other entrepreneur's blogs, write posts on their own blog. So, my advice would be to stop writing post like this one during your working day.
PS : stop reading this useless comment, close Firefox and Go back to work
PS2 : What the hell are you doing here ??? Go back to work i said!
12 months ago
12 months ago
OK, that was HIS style and a particular industry at particular period, but I've tried that a couple of times...didn't really work. 10% of the time is used just to...track your time.
Actually, since the day I realized the freakin' poem I had to learn for mid-school was way easier to remember in the morning (!), I have kept the most intellectually challenging things to do for the morning. It has worked great. + it's scientifically proven.
I leave the "easier" things for the afternoon, when my brain slows down. I however manage to focus back in the late afternoon. Well, I guess this phenomenon is just called lunch food coma...
12 months ago
First of all : all the best again!
Concerning the being-focus thing, i have my personal recipe, just sharing :
* break down the day into 45/15 mins sessions : 45 mins highly focused, 15 minutes of cooling down, getting up and walk around ( important for ur body, you tall man ), have some fresh air, talk ... do somehting else.
* drink 1.5 liters of water a day at least
* have a confortable and ergonomic position
* loose as little time as possible on organisation and transition between focusing times. Organisation can actually be the topic of one of these 45mins sessions.
* some people like to have visual representations of the organisation : timeline on a sheet of paper, with tasks, TODO lists. I personnaly use mind maps ( http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/... ) .
* max 8h of effective focused work a day, after this my head is burnt up. This means 11 45/15 sessions. After that, more relaxed tasks can be tackled : reading things for instance, harvesting info on the web, preparing the following day's organisation.
The 45/15 pace is used in Norwegian universities ( in other places too i guess, but i've only been studying in Norway apart from France ), and there is no longer break at all during the day. I experimented this on the trainings i gave about eZ Publish, which requires quite some attention i'd say, and this pace turned out to be the most efficient.
Have some sport activity now and then helps too.
Be strong Dude,
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Nico
12 months ago
Moi mon truc pour rester Focus c'est les todo lists, ca donne des objectifs et donc toujours la motivation de continuer, next step next step!!!
Bon a part ca je t'envoie plein de motivation pour ton nouveau challenge!!!! Et toute mon admiration, oh! julien g!!! Est ce que le kite surf progresse entre deux sessions d'une heure et demi?
bise depuis Innsbruck
clemence
12 months ago
@Le Tribulateur : I knew it ;-)
@Simon : I am most productive at night, I guess everybody is different, but I'll definitely try the early morning newt time I'm jetlaged!
@MovingCosts & @Thomas : planning is one of the key points, but planning is not always possible... specially when you're an entrepreneur, you receive mails, phone calls or sollicitations that cannot wait most of the time : priorities are changing a lot within the same day. As an example, if I had planned my day yesterday, I would have probably not done 50% of what I wanted to do, because of "external" stimuli (lawyer phone call, ...)
@Damien : Ikea : interesting! But, as you said, it's kind of stupid to spend too much time on "counting time"! Also, I'm definetely going to try to do the hard work in the morning and put meetings/interviews in the afternoon!
@Nico : Thanks! Maybe I can try to reduce the sessions down to 45minutes with the break! You're very right about drinking and doing some sports : Yoga in the evening is good!
I'll give a chance to Mind Maps as well ;-)
@Clem' : j'ai pété mon second kite en deux semaine le weekend dernier... on peut dire que ça fait chier, mais oui, j'avais pas mal progresser; je sais remonter au vent!! Bises à toi!
11 months ago
;-)
Have fun
/Olivier
"le 25 sept, on t'attend à Paris, c'est jeudi"
11 months ago
J'adooooore la déco des toilettes ;-)
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I am starting by September 1st 2008 (Lundi prochan :-) a Farewell time (année sabatique) for developping my start up Libraltitude Sarl...
You are the first Blog I reach on this topic "Productive alone" and I will follow all your advice as I am alone :-).
I deal with Rc models community and I am developping the Web2.0 of www.modelisme.com the largest French speaked Rc models fan.
Au plaisir de lire tes autres posts.
Thanks.
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You say that in good days, you work roughly 12-15 hours a day. Many people do as well. The big difference is wether or not these hours are really productive.
I have found that for me, timeboxing helps me focusing a lot.
A neat Mac application for staying focused is TimeBoxed: http://www.macmation.com/TimeBoxed
Disclaimer: I am the author.