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One Simple Smartphone
Trick to Help You Get Things Done Faster
James Nathan
If you are anything like me
you use your smartphone constantly.
It is the number one
electronic gadget that you are never without.
Some of us even panic if our
phone is not within easy reach 24 hours a day.
Our phones have become our
diaries, our address books, our CRMs, our books,
our game consoles, our iPods,
our note books, our cameras, the list goes on and on.
Oh, I forgot, they also make
telephone calls.
Some of us are so wedded to
the things that we pick up and play with them,
almost as a matter of habit. Not waiting for a beep or some
other notification, we grab them,
flick through the screens,
put them down again and then minutes later do it all again.
One thing we all have in
common is how we set up our smart phone screens.
We do it in order of
importance. The apps you use the most on the home screen,
and then other apps you use
less often on the others, and some stuck away in folders.
So, let me share a little
trick that I have discovered that has made me
more effective and productive, and takes nothing more
than a few minutes to set up and use.
In his book ” The Pursuit of
Wow!” Tom Peters, who tells a story about putting a dictionary
on his hall table. It was a
book he wanted to use but seldom did, so he put it on his hall table.
Once it was there he passed
by it several times a day.
And an interesting thing
happened.
He started using his
dictionary more and more often,
until it was one of the books
he used most often.
He put something he wanted to
use where he always saw it. It become more visible,
and as a result was used more
often. And the great side effect was that his vocabulary grew.
We all buy and download free
productivity apps.
Apps that we think if we used
them will help us to be more productive.
Apps that we install, use a
couple of times, put in a folder and forget to use again.
So, bearing in mind Tom and
his dictionary, here is the simple trick that really works.
Re-arrange
your smartphone screens to get things done faster
Instead of putting the apps
you use most often on the home screen,
put the apps that you want to
use most there instead.
And hey presto, you start to
use the productivity apps more often.
You read the blogs you never
seem to get around to.
You organise and act on
projects more regularly,
you spend more time on
personal development, and less on Facebook, Twitter and the like.
Turn that picking up and
flicking into useful, productive and effective time use.
Re-arrange your home screen
now, and see how much more you get done.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/1-simple-smartphone-trick-help-you-get-things-done-faster.html
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To quote the Dr Seuss himself, “The more that you read, the more
things you will know.
The more that you learn; the more places you'll go.”
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