Comments on: Breaking Goals Down Into Microtasks

By: How To Deal With Lack of Motivation at FreshBlogger

How To Deal With Lack of Motivation at FreshBlogger — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:47:42 +0000

[...] Deal with one thing at a time. If you have trouble with it already, you’ll have to learn to just say no. For your sanity’s sake, focus on one thing at a time. Ignore the phone and email until you’ve completed at least one task. You’ll feel better that you’ve accomplished something. You may want to break down larger projects into microtasks. [...]

By: ray

ray — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:37:16 +0000

@Snoskred: Thanks! I’m glad you liked it.

@Valentin: That’s a good analogy. Breaking things down into smaller pieces also allows us to concentrate our full powers on each little thing.

@Martin: I couldn’t agree more about getting started being tough. That’s the step in each process that usually gets me the most. I’ve had some good success lately with the microtasks, though, and that seems to help a lot.

Thanks for your comments!

By: Muchachas en Miami

Muchachas en Miami — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 02:08:09 +0000

Great article! You sometimes see this huge task and it’s overwhelming - but if you take it down to smaller tasks it’s definitely do-able!

- Busco Un Amor

By: Community Building Blog

Community Building Blog — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:35:34 +0000

I definitely agree that setting goals is a huge advance when it comes to productivity. Often, the hardest part of getting work done is just getting started in the first place!

- Martin Reed

By: Valentin

Valentin — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 17:14:31 +0000

Dividing things-to-do into small pieces is often forgoten to be considered “the way”, despite we, humans, we use to take advantage of this on other areas of our life …

For example food : we use to cut bread, steak, tomatoes and allmost anything into small pieces for a better - faster digestion;

Or the classical “Divide et impera” … mwuahahahaha

By: Snoskred

Snoskred — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:05:13 +0000

Excellent, I’ve been wanting to write something like this for a little while. Adding this to the weekly wrap up on Sunday.

Snoskred
http://www.snoskred.org/