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6 Ridiculously Simple Tricks That Will 3x Your Productivity

Vincent Carlos
6 min readMay 25, 2020

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You know the feeling.

You wake up in the morning fully inspired to tackle the day and get stuff done.

You’re going to go to the gym. You’re going to read 30 pages of your book. You’re going to work on your passion project.

But then the day goes by, and you didn’t do any of those things. Instead, you spent time responding to email, scrolling through social media, and watching Netflix.

It’s frustrating.

And it happens day after day.

But here’s the thing: It’s not your fault. With so many distractions stealing your attention nowadays (social media, email, co-workers, etc.) it can feel nearly impossible to get your most important tasks done on a daily basis.

Fortunately, there’s a solution.

Here are 6 proven tricks that will help you fight off distractions and easily triple your productivity:

1) Tear Up Your To-Do List

First things first: Being productive is not about getting more things done every day. Instead, it’s about getting your most important tasks done on a daily basis.

Because of this, to-do lists can oftentimes do more harm than good.

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Vincent Carlos
Vincent Carlos

Written by Vincent Carlos

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