Two Powerful Productivity Techniques that Changed my Life

And how they help me develop consistency

Jordan Ebert
The Ultimate Student Handbook
3 min readNov 19, 2019

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Do you ever just look around at your life and realise you have SO much to do?

That’s been me for the last decade, and I’ve realised that enough is enough.

Having things to do is only a natural for driven and ambitious individuals like us, but the difference between successful people and idealistic ones is our ability to execute. To do things while others think about them.

On the topic of being productive, I’m going to gloss over all the qualifying sentences and jump right into two powerful methods I use to get things done consistently and stay productive.

Having a to-do list

Realistically, having a to-do list is the easiest and most substantial thing you can do to instantly better yourself.

The easiest way to get tasks done is first to know what tasks you have to do, then to effectively prioritise those tasks into a sustainable system which you can follow day-to-day.

By working out what you need to do versus what you want to do (and what you ‘don’t really’ need to do), you can take steps towards detailing the more specific tasks involved in…

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