{"id":17016,"date":"2017-01-26T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=17016"},"modified":"2017-01-26T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T18:00:17","slug":"habits-and-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/26\/habits-and-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"Habits and Productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Sparks<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you’ve been thinking about changing some habits as we head into 2017, why not game the system with an app? I have fallen off the wagon with habit tracking so I looked at a lot of the popular habit tracking apps before settling on Productive<\/a> as my favorite. It has a bit of whimsey in its design and is customizable in just about every way you can think of for a habit-tracking app.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Eddie Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My favorite app for habit-forming is Streaks<\/a>, which is designed to encourage you to complete tasks over consecutive days, X times per week, etc. It can even read health data from your iPhone and automatically check off health-related tasks.Being January, a lot of people have habit-forming on the brain. My favorite app for habit-forming is Streaks<\/a>, which is designed to encourage you to complete tasks over consecutive days, X times per week, etc.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

But in 2016, I started taking a more inverted approach and embraced the “to-don’t.” I’m willing to bet for most people in modern times, you’ll find more low hanging fruit in to-don’t lists, which are simply lists of things you do not want to do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Eddie Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I’ve begun to understand that I’m essentially a collection of “selves” that change subtly throughout the day, and I’ve learned to manage these “selves” as different workers—or like a great football coach who knows how to get each player to play to his full potential.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Sparks: If you’ve been thinking about changing some habits as we head into 2017, why not game the system with an app? I have fallen off the wagon with habit tracking so I looked at a lot of the popular habit tracking apps before settling on Productive as my favorite. It has a bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[708,920,31,1380,26],"class_list":["post-17016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-getting-things-done","tag-healthkit","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17017,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016\/revisions\/17017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}