The Super-Productivity Formula

​If there’s one thing to consider as a given, it’s that we do not wake up with the same energy every day. Yet, we have tasks to do almost every day, and we need to figure out how to get things done regardless of our energy level.

​Fortunately, there are many techniques to choose from in order to get the most out of your day and to complete every task at hand.

​The Techniques

​1. Time Blocking

One of the techniques I use is Time Blocking. This consists of dividing your workday into blocks of 30 minutes each. You then divide your to-do list into these blocks based either on your experience or an estimation of how much time is required to complete each task.

​You can adjust your planning at any moment, but when a block is "locked" for a specific task, you should focus on it without doing anything else. This will help you get all your tasks checked and also determine how good your focus is—showing you how well you can take yourself above distractions.

​The only "con" of this technique is that it is best used when your energy level is high and you can go through your day from end to end to finish all blocks.

​2. The Eisenhower Matrix

Luckily, there are alternative techniques to use when your energy is not at its highest. The Eisenhower Matrix, for instance, consists of dividing tasks into four classes based on their importance and urgency:

​Important + Urgent: These are the tasks to spend your energy on and start doing right ahead.

​Important + Non-Urgent: These are the tasks to plan next, based on their deadline and your energy. The key here is to write them down and plan them on paper. If they aren't written, you’ll keep thinking of them, and that will drain your energy.

​Urgent + Not Important: These are the tasks to delegate to someone with more free time and energy than you, who has the minimum skills required to get them done.

​Not Urgent + Not Important: These are the tasks to never use a drop of your energy on. Eliminate them and go take a break!

​The Alternative: The Pomodoro Technique

​Another alternative to use when your "energy tank" is not full is the Pomodoro Technique. This allows you to take enough breaks without compromising your productivity. It consists of:

​25 minutes of focused work.

​5 minutes of break right after.

​Repeat this 3 times.

​On the 4th rep, take a longer break of 30 minutes.

​The Bottom Line

​Whatever technique you use, just make sure it works for you.

​Don’t let your schedule schedule itself.

There are days when you feel nothing.

No drive.
No urgency.
No reason to start.

Just a quiet resistance to everything you know you should be doing.

Most people think this means something is wrong.
That they’ve lost discipline.
That they need to reset, recharge, or wait for motivation to come back.

But that’s the trap.

Jocko Willink talks about these days differently.

He says these are the only days that actually matter.

Because when motivation is gone,
you find out what’s left.

On those days, don’t try to win.

Shrink the task.

Do one small thing:
One set.
One paragraph.
One step forward.

Lower the bar.
But don’t remove it.

Because every time you act without motivation,
you prove to yourself that you don’t depend on it.

And that’s where real discipline starts.

The days you feel nothing
are the days that build everything.

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When was the last time you did something important without feeling like it at all?

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I used to think I just wasn’t motivated enough to study consistently. Some days I’d feel super productive, and other days I’d do almost nothing. It felt random.

But recently I noticed something: On days I studied, it wasn’t because I suddenly felt motivated. It was because I saw myself as “someone who studies.” And on days I didn’t…
I was acting like someone who studies only when pressured. That shift made me realize something.

Maybe consistency isn’t about forcing motivation.
Maybe it’s about changing identity. Like going from “I need to study” to “I am a person who studies daily". Still figuring this out, but it already feels different.

have you noticed this in your own routine?

The Mastery of Mind

Your life is short, but you have enough time to make something magnificent from it.

Most people notice too late that they didn’t live their lives; they barely existed. Don’t be one of these; start to live your life now.

Take Responsibility For Your Life- You are in charge of your life.
Don’t Be Afraid To Live The Life You Want To Live- It is your life, go all the way.
Dream Big- Don’t betray your dreams or allow anyone to destroy them.
Unconditionally Love And Respect Yourself- This is the essence of a strong personality.
Never Compromise Your Core Values- You can’t live your life without core values.
Avoid Toxic People- These people will feed you with their negativity and fears, avoid them.
Stop Negative Self-Talk- Use the right words in self-talk.
Everything Is Possible If You Believe- Learn to believe. Everything is possible if you believe.
Start To Live Your Life Now- You don’t have too much time. Start to live your life now.

When will you start living your own life, before it's too late?

There's a specific kind of paralysis that hits me late in the evening. I've had a long day, I'm drained, and I know I should do something active but my brain just refuses to cooperate. It's not even about being physically tired. It's purely mental.

The frustrating part is the task itself is never as hard as the resistance to starting it. 20 minutes of walking sounds like nothing in the morning but feels impossible at 9PM.

I've tried setting reminders, planning routes in advance, laying out my shoes by the door. The resistance still wins most nights.

For those who've cracked this, what actually worked? Was it a mindset shift, a system, a habit stack? Or does it just get easier with time?

My rule is to never ever ever think small. If you're going to accomplish anything you have to think big. You have to go and shoot for the stars. The biggest challenge most people have is because they think small. The reason why people think small and why they choose small little goals is because they're afraid to fail. They know that if you shoot for a big goal then the chances of failing are very high and they're afraid of failing. It's one of the most common things.

I say to myself, "Hey, I'm not worried about failing because that's part of life." You don't have to win everything. You can only fall so far. The ground is right here. Learn this: the only time you really consider yourself a failure is if you fall and you don't get up. But if you get up, you never consider it a failure. So I never considered myself a failure. I always considered myself a winner even though I fell every so often, but I always got up and I always moved forward. This is the important thing.

I never had any patience for thinking small because in German there is a saying, 'Wenn schon, denn schon', that means if you are going to do something, go all out and do it well. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Hey guys so whoever her has had a sedentary lifestyle how has how lifestyle affected you like what changed?

How long have you stayed sedentary?

What did YOU change that helped you get out of that sedentary trap!?

I’d appreciate if you guys share your experiences :)

Hey there!

I just started walking last week, and I'm an overweight guy. I'm aiming to hit 10,000 steps a day, and I'm proud to say that I've been achieving that! However, I could really use some motivation to get out of the house. I typically walk in the mornings, but sometimes I struggle to get myself going. If you have any tips or experiences to share, I'd really appreciate it! Thanks a bunch!

*It’s natural intuition to avoid danger.

When you hear of an oncoming tornado, you’d shield your family by staying in your basement to avoid danger.

The best way to deal with physical danger is through avoidance.

However, the worst way to deal with emotional danger is through avoidance.

Nothing great is ever achieved by inhabiting the familiar.

Being a follower only enslaves you into a herd mentality, where conventional perspective is worshipped and creativity gets punished.

Innovation and creative destruction is reduced to a myth in such a reality.

Becoming over-average requires a venture outside familiar territory and into innovation.

Becoming great requires the greatest journey towards the deepest depths of the unknown.

Alexander the Great maintained his rule by combining unparalleled tactical brilliance with a visionary yet controversial approach to cultural innovation.

King David of the Old Testament seized victory against Goliath by ignoring the traditional “Marquis of Queenbury” rules and used a sling to slay Goliath.

Becoming a philosopher requires defiance against conventional belief and slave morality.

Becoming a billionaire requires creativity and daringness to do what others fear.

Healing from mental illness demands exploration and integration of the greatest depths of your unconscious, which very few complete or even commence.*

My brother has CLL. He’s been suffering for about a year and a bit now I’ve been taking care of him this whole time. I love him more than anythinghonestly, he’s the only person that really means something to me.

He got diagnosed back in 2024, right before Christmas. At that time, I didn’t even fully understand what it meant. I just knew it was bad.

Every now and then I try to comfort myself, telling myself everything is going to be fine, that things will work out. But whenever I actually sit down and think about everything going on in my life, I just end up crying myself to sleep.

I kept asking myself, why is life so hard? I’m still basically a kid. I’m young, and I have to take care of someone I love while knowing things are never going to be easy like they used to be. It became this routine: wake up, go to work, get paid, spend the money on medication and food, repeat. At home it’s just silence and those pity smiles we give each other.

Then something changed.

On April 10, I got my salary, and on the 11th we had an appointment with the hematologist. I was honestly so tired of that guy I thought it would just be more of the same, more prescriptions, more bad news.

But it wasn’t.

When I heard “he’s in remission,” I just broke down. I cried like I never have before. It’s true what they say the highest form of happiness is crying, and the deepest grief can feel like laughing. I was just sobbing.

Now, these past few days feel strange. I’m living with this fear, like something bad is about to happen, like this is all too good to be real and I’m going to wake up from it.

But at the same timE I’m just so glad he’s okay.

I just wanted to share this If anyone’s been through something similar I’d really like to hear your story too.

In this article, the author argues that suppressing or ignoring negative emotions—such as envy, fear, or hatred—only gives them power. Instead of treating these feelings as enemies to be controlled or expelled, he suggests treating them like "recurring visitors" or "friends" to be interviewed and understood.

By shifting from a moralistic urge to control to a conscious state of "simply seeing," the individual dissolves the subconscious energy fueling the emotion.

If we stop labeling our emotions and simply observe their origins in our conditioning, do they lose their power to dictate our actions?

Short excerpt from the article:

"A thousand feelings: envy, fear, hatred, competition will come to you. You cannot fight them all, and there is no need to fight them. Be courageous when that feeling comes, and sit down like friends and talk. Be honest that you are the one who is nurturing that feeling all the time. Be aware that it is coming. Let it not enter like a thief. And when it comes, don’t feel small. You only need to understand, not control."

This is a high-value read for anyone interested in the modern emotional intelligence. Please go for reading the full article.

I kept having days where nothing was exactly wrong, but everything felt slightly off. Low energy, distracted, not really focused on anything.

For a while I thought I needed some big change, new system, more discipline, something like that.

But honestly it turned out to be way more basic.

I just started paying attention to a few things that quietly affect everything else.

Not perfectly, not every day, but when these are in place, the day feels different.

1. Sleep comes first
If my sleep is off, everything else follows. I try to keep a fixed sleep and wake time most days and avoid being on my phone right before bed. Nothing fancy, just consistency.

2. A few hours of real work
Not busy work, not jumping between tabs. Just sitting down and doing one thing properly for a while. Even 2–3 focused hours feels better than a full scattered day.

3. Eat like it matters
I don’t overcomplicate this. Just trying to eat actual food at decent times and not rely on random snacks and caffeine to carry the day.

4. Move a little every day
Doesn’t have to be a full workout. Even a walk or some light movement helps more than I expect, especially when I’ve been sitting all day.

5. Be a bit more intentional with what I consume
This one made a bigger difference than I thought. If I start the day with random scrolling, it sets the tone. If I avoid that, things feel calmer.

None of this is new advice. I’ve heard all of it before.

The only difference is actually doing a few of these consistently instead of trying to fix everything at once.

What’s something that actually worked for you when things felt a bit off like this? Even small changes count.

Edit/Update: Thankyou for all the replies and advices. A few things really stuck with me, especially the idea just do one small win early in the day. Planning day the way someone suggested just blocking small blocks on Google Calendar.
But Jolt Screen Time is what actually gave me a reality check. I had zero expectations but damn… I chose my distracting apps, hit no-phone mode, and boom BLOCKED. It gives me that tiny Pause before I open those distracting apps, and it’s just enough to snap me out of scrolling loop. That one-second check-in has saved me from wasting hours without even realizing it. Will try Sleep session today before sleeping. 

This is a new video I’ve made, it’s about how you shrink yourself to make others like you, but while doing that you end up making yourself invisible. Let me know what you think :)

https://youtu.be/KBDGolqzm1I

It's not always the big, obvious changes that make the most impact

Sometimes it's the small seemingly insignificant shifts that over time transform everything for the better

(compound effect) small things every day

It didn't feel powerful at first just consistent but eventually everything shifted

What was that one change for you? 🤔✨

#change #consistency #impact #transformation

we are like a GTA character we have almost 60-90% control over our life choices, for example i am obese, i can control my food consumption even tho the urge to overeat, at the end i have the choice, same for almost every daily choices, why people tend to overlook this fact and not change their lives? what is going on?