Heard those before? Ever spoke any of those (even to yourself)?
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Do you really work those 2-digit hours a day and be productive?
My definition of Productive: Produce Good; Deliver in Time.
Now, let me ask that question again, “Do you really work those 2-digit hours a day and be productive?” 
It’s not impossible, but I don’t think more than 0.000001% people can do this all 365 days a year.
Are you that one in a million?
Yes? You rock! Why don’t you leave some tips as a comment to this post?
No? Here are some of my thoughts:
1. I don’t like to work. I wish, God gives me enough money every month. (Reading out my mind)
You work because you get paid for it not because you like it. Love your work! But don’t work because you love to work.
Interested in research? Become a scientist. Interested in public service? Become a politician. Interested in social service? Join an NGO. Interested in Charity? Donate! Don’t work for anything other than money.
Repeat, in other words, Business is done for profit.
If your primary objective is not to make money out of business and you just want to satisfy some of your whims, be warned, business done in this fashion has a greater chance of making losses and losses have a real-life effect on you. You don’t want to be disillusioned.
2. Know your work
Know exactly what you need to do. Spending time on Internet, browsing websites, engaging in social networks, chatting, etc. is not work. That is not to say, those should be avoided. That is to say, identify what your work is, what are your responsibilities, what are the tasks that you need to do today and most importantly, what is the last thing that you will produce and deliver today. This allows you to know that the work that you need to do today is not infinite. Remember, work always piles-up but don’t worry about it as long as you can deliver all that you need to deliver today. You can never finish everything. You only need to finish that work today that you need to finish today.
3. Always remember Theodor Adorno
Work while you work, play while you play – this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.
Not everyone will agree to this only because they (including me) are so hooked into doing this all wrong all the time that they feel this rule is obsolete and the world has changed now. But let me explain. I am not against those occasional Table Tennis matches or playing Xbox during office hours. That definitely refreshes some people and charges them up for creativity and productivity. I am only against calculating that time as time spent doing work – because you really haven’t. But, of course, I am against writing those 5 lines of code, sending a tweet, writing another 5 lines of code, checking Facebook updates and so on. I think, that does hamper productivity.
4. Spend time with yourself
… and when you do so here’s the minimum, I suggest, you do:
5. Promise yourself a great evening, everyday!
Some ideas: go to a restaurant, play with your children, have a candle-light dinner with your wife or girlfriend, cook, read a novel lying down on a sofa, go to the gym, go for a walk, watch a movie, go for a long drive, go for shopping, meet-up with friends, play some sport, join some club. I suggest, that you spend at least 3 hours doing one or more of these.
Some links if you haven’t already visited them earlier:
Read:
Watch:
10 secrets of highly productive people
Timoty Ferriss on FastCompany.TV (Article)
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The only way to be successful, in fulfilling any resolutions such as these, that I have observed is by allowing yourself to survive in a little distaste. Meaning, you cannot always be willing to do something that you really want to and when you have done things like these for a few iterations, you get into the rhythm.
Again, once you are into the rhythm, you must not start taking things lightly. I was an avid bodybuilder at a time, working out over 7 hours a day, for many years. Gradually, I started taking things a bit easy and now after 15 years, I don't exercise one bit.
I dont know if you remember early in Zimbra days, when my/our manager listed our goals and I printed out and labelled as *My Green Stuff*.
I can't say everyone in world but yes in IT is here for money.
I spend some really good time with my family as I am experiencing Fatherhood for the first time and hope to continue the same.
Vikas, I remember your "My Green Stuff"! And, I know, your time management skills are very good! Keep it up!
This would be a dream for everyone. In reality its really hard to follow this regularly. I can do this for a day/a week. But somehow couldn't manage to regulate work in long run. Still trying hard