Video live at: http://youtu.be/UnZlyouz9s8 . Presented Dec 14, 2012 at Google. Here are the links that illustrate the techniques I mention: * notifymenot.com - Turn off your notifications from social networks * bit.ly/mobileoff - Turn off the badges/alerts on your phone * awayfind.com - Receive alerts for just your important emails, and download the full Guide to NOT Checking Email (part of AwayFind's setup) * snipr.com/makealist - Clear your head, get started with a system * bit.ly/thecriticalpath - Determine what tasks are critical for your major goals * bit.ly/bodyslave - Schedule your day around your energy levels * bit.ly/remarkablenotproductive - Nevermind productivity, be remarkable If you'd like more information or are interested in a similar talk for your organization, drop me a note: jared@awayfind.com. Please follow me on Twitter: @technotheory.

1. Productivity
Happiness
and Avoiding
Sudden Death
Jared Goralnick Flickr Photo: JD Hancock
Icons – Christopher T. Howlett, Alfredo Astort (The Noun Project)

2. PART 1.
TWEAKS
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3. Social Networks
please do not mail me
please do not e-mail me
please do not text me
Save Preferences
http://notifymenot.com
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4. Notifications Off.
http://bit.ly/mobileoff
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5. Archive
Productivity, Happiness, and Avoiding Sudden Death Flickr Photos: alabut, yuan2003, rajue @technotheory 5

6. Delete
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7. Stop Checking Email
http://awayfind.com
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8. PART 2.
TECHNIQUES
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9. Purge Your Mind
Sit still, and make a crazy long list
Achieve “Mind Like Water”
http://snipr.com/makealist [Technotheory]
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10. Measure. Measure. Stop.
Flickr Photo: tyla Flickr Photo: leoplus
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11. 50/10 (50 min work, 10 min rest)
Flickr Photo: lwr
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12. In the Stream, Out of the Stream
Get your value
and then get
AWAY.
Flickr Photo: bullish1974
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13. Unplug
Flickr Photo: ppdigital Flickr Photo: mark78
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14. Cone of Silence + Batching
Start a Task
“Cone of Silence”
Don’t Multitask
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15. The Essential and the Incidental
Decide on your goals
Group together
the incidental
http://bit.ly/thecriticalpath [Technotheory] Flickr Photo: OceanView2008
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16. Learn your Circadian Rhythms
Schedule around your body’s cycle
WIDE AWAKE DEAD TIRED
Thought-intensive, Bite-sized tasks and those
creative tasks that require movement
http://bit.ly/bodyslave [Technotheory] Flickr photos: Fabbriciuse, Skantzman
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17. Be remarkable not productive
http://bit.ly/remarkablenotproductive [Technotheory] Flickr photo: Felicia McCaulley
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18. Just Google Me. JK.
Jared Goralnick
jared@awayfind.com
@technotheory
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