Tag: “Techniques”

Writing a paper is often imagined as a burden that no one likes, but has to carry on. Though, don’t be so critical about the way you perceive writing. It doesn’t matter what kind of paper you are dealing with. Every task is a new experience and new skills to master. No knowledge of that kind will be useless. The single thing you have to do is to concentrate on the bright sides of writing activity.

It doesn’t matter how well you work on any given day – if you’re not consistent in getting things done then you’re wasting all that hard work. The problem is that being consistently productive is infinitely harder than having a natural ebb and flow.

Long time ago I wrote a short introduction about using the Pomodoro Technique since it’s a technique that I use many times when I need to focus on the task at hand and make the most out of my time. Later on I wrote a more detailed article about this technique and two others deepening on two of its main goals: eliminating interruptions and better time estimates.

The debt-snowball method is a strategy developed by Dave Ramsey, author of the book The Total Money Makeover, which aims to eliminate personal debts. It basically consists on cancelling first the lowest debt providing minimal payments to the rest of the debt. Once you have cancelled the lowest debt, you can concentrate in the next one with the smallest amount owed, and so on.

In 2006, Joseph C. Nunes and Xavier Dréze published a study called The Endowed Progress Effect: How Artificial Advancement Increases Effort. They describe a very interesting phenomenon used in marketing, which you can also use to take on your projects with greater motivation.