{"id":3592,"date":"2017-08-08T05:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2017-08-08T05:25:56","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T05:25:56","slug":"become-speed-demon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/miscellaneou\/become-speed-demon\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a speed demon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my notes from the Udemy course Become a speed demon by Jonathan Levi. This may change by the time you read this post, but the course is now on a sale for $10, so you may wanna check it out if you&#8217;re into &#8216;this kind of things&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Proper preparation is key to everything.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>pecific<br \/>\n<strong>M<\/strong>easurable<br \/>\n<strong>A<\/strong>ctionable<br \/>\n<strong>R<\/strong>ealistic<br \/>\n<strong>T<\/strong>ime related<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2vDVG1Q\">The checklist manifesto book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The priority Star Exercise:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/nkamp5B.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Parkinson&#8217;s Law<\/strong> &#8211; work expands to fill the time available for its completion<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Efficient != Effective<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>15 minutes to get back in the optimal zone after distraction<\/p>\n<p>MEDITATE!<\/p>\n<p>Batching tasks &#8211; answer emails @ specific time<\/p>\n<p>Buddhist wheel of life: career, money, health, friends and family, romance, personal growth, fun, and recreation, physical environment<\/p>\n<p>Some cool tools\/tips:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pomodoro<\/li>\n<li>Rescue Time<\/li>\n<li>Scheduling meetings with an app<\/li>\n<li>TextExpander<\/li>\n<li>Dvorak keyboard<\/li>\n<li>Typing numbers is faster if you actually speak them<\/li>\n<li>Make use of Siri (or another equivalent on your phone)<\/li>\n<li>QuickSilver app for Mac<\/li>\n<li>Better Touch Tool<\/li>\n<li>IFTTT<\/li>\n<li>Sleep Cycle App<\/li>\n<li>Bill Guard<\/li>\n<li>Mint.com<\/li>\n<li>Have someone do your laundry<\/li>\n<li>TaskWonder, Workerly, Fiverr<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Decision fatigue leads to ego depletion.<\/p>\n<p>Too many options make us miserable.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Sorry I&#8217;m so direct, but I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;re very busy.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maker vs. Manager time<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Become a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/speed?src=hash\">#speed<\/a> demon <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cAfQ8MYpFm\">https:\/\/t.co\/cAfQ8MYpFm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nikola Bre\u017enjak (@HitmanHR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HitmanHR\/status\/894791645463552001\">August 8, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are my notes from the Udemy course Become a speed demon by Jonathan Levi. This may change by the time you read this post, but the course&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3592"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3608,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3592\/revisions\/3608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikola-breznjak.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}