Comments on: Timeboxing http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/ Personal Development for Smart People Mon, 12 May 2008 09:53:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Jasmine http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-8754 Jasmine Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:48:50 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-8754 Thanks Steve!!! i found your article is very uplifting and your piece of writing style is very different from others!!! Good ones! i've shared ur website with my siblings and my friends. It's really nice of you to share your experience and knowlegde with us!!! Procrastination... i cant find any good books about it yet... but your writing are in such an organized way and clearly brought out the points. it's pretty easy to understand especially for those who has sufferred from it! Once again, thanks! Thanks Steve!!!
i found your article is very uplifting and your piece of writing style is very different from others!!! Good ones!
i’ve shared ur website with my siblings and my friends. It’s really nice of you to share your experience and knowlegde with us!!!
Procrastination… i cant find any good books about it yet… but your writing are in such an organized way and clearly brought out the points. it’s pretty easy to understand especially for those who has sufferred from it! Once again, thanks!

]]> By: katherine http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-2717 katherine Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:44:31 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-2717 I am going to try this! I am going to try this!

]]> By: Clive Crous http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-2144 Clive Crous Mon, 09 May 2005 10:44:37 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-2144 Great articles. I've been looking for a solution to this "affliction" of mine for quite some time. This looks like a great way to start ;) Thanks Great articles. I’ve been looking for a solution to this “affliction” of mine for quite some time. This looks like a great way to start ;)

Thanks

]]> By: Eleanor http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-1920 Eleanor Sat, 23 Apr 2005 06:19:31 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-1920 :) im a high school student from australia, and i find myself procratinating a lot. i have often tried to overcome this, with no success at all. All my assessment tasks are completed at the very last minute and i make myself work through the task throughout the night. By doing this, i have found out that i also suffer memory loss. On several occasions i have said to myself "i've got to start seeking professional help..." and today, i finally came about to search the net for causes of procrastination and how to resolve it. i came across the article you wrote and i found it very interesting. i always thought that if i could find a secluded place, i could concentrate more on my work. i still havent found a way to overcome procrastination but after reading your article it had helped me alot. i have found myself some motivation and will follow your advice :) Thank you very much :) :) im a high school student from australia, and i find myself procratinating a lot. i have often tried to overcome this, with no success at all. All my assessment tasks are completed at the very last minute and i make myself work through the task throughout the night. By doing this, i have found out that i also suffer memory loss.

On several occasions i have said to myself “i’ve got to start seeking professional help…” and today, i finally came about to search the net for causes of procrastination and how to resolve it. i came across the article you wrote and i found it very interesting. i always thought that if i could find a secluded place, i could concentrate more on my work. i still havent found a way to overcome procrastination but after reading your article it had helped me alot.

i have found myself some motivation and will follow your advice :)

Thank you very much :)

]]> By: Beck from Australia http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-1777 Beck from Australia Thu, 14 Apr 2005 03:30:10 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-1777 This is wonderful! All I needed to get started on the 3 essays I have due next week was a hint on planning, motivation and overcoming procrastination (I got here via your procrastination article)...I've got you bookmarked - thank you! Beck :) This is wonderful!

All I needed to get started on the 3 essays I have due next week was a hint on planning, motivation and overcoming procrastination (I got here via your procrastination article)…I’ve got you bookmarked - thank you!

Beck :)

]]> By: neon http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-1321 neon Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:37:32 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-1321 Fry Carola I think, Steve's answer would be: Have your purpose as your chocolate milk. :) Fry Carola

I think, Steve’s answer would be:

Have your purpose as your chocolate milk. :)

]]> By: Fry Crayola http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-1318 Fry Crayola Tue, 15 Mar 2005 14:26:35 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-1318 Having just read this article (and the related one), I realised that I'd actually been using Timeboxing myself in my own way. For the last few years I had been studying at university. Come the crunch time of exam revision, it wa clear that I needed to do some work for an exam that may have been a week or two later. Always safer to start early - yet hard to convince myself to do. I hated studying. Heck, I still do. So I went to the shop, and bought myself a nice big bottle of chocolate milk (I'm just a big kid). I stuck it in the fridge, and promised myself I could have it if I work for an hour. I did this a lot. If I didn't work for the hour, I couldn't have the milk (and if I did have it, it tasted of pure guilt). If I did the work, whatever the achievement, I got the milk and it felt good. It becomes a part of my work ethic now. If I reward myself in small doses at regular intervals, I get a lot more done. Having just read this article (and the related one), I realised that I’d actually been using Timeboxing myself in my own way.

For the last few years I had been studying at university. Come the crunch time of exam revision, it wa clear that I needed to do some work for an exam that may have been a week or two later. Always safer to start early - yet hard to convince myself to do. I hated studying. Heck, I still do.

So I went to the shop, and bought myself a nice big bottle of chocolate milk (I’m just a big kid). I stuck it in the fridge, and promised myself I could have it if I work for an hour. I did this a lot. If I didn’t work for the hour, I couldn’t have the milk (and if I did have it, it tasted of pure guilt). If I did the work, whatever the achievement, I got the milk and it felt good.

It becomes a part of my work ethic now. If I reward myself in small doses at regular intervals, I get a lot more done.

]]> By: Dmitry Chestnykh http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-814 Dmitry Chestnykh Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:00:35 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-814 It just works! Thanks! ;) It just works! Thanks! ;)

]]> By: GBGames http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-37 GBGames Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:04:52 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-37 "Time boxing" is one of those hard-to-google items. Prime-time boxing comes up more of then than not. What's interesting is that this description seems a bit different from what you can find elsewhere. The idea here is "Get something/anything done within a period of time" whereas the other descriptions I've found make it seem like time boxing says "Get specific things done in this time." Then again, it could be because those descriptions are for time boxing over longer periods of time. The idea is probably "release software within 6 months with two month milestones, no matter what features are ready by then" as opposed to this article which seems more like "here's your deadline. Do something with your time!" “Time boxing” is one of those hard-to-google items. Prime-time boxing comes up more of then than not.

What’s interesting is that this description seems a bit different from what you can find elsewhere. The idea here is “Get something/anything done within a period of time” whereas the other descriptions I’ve found make it seem like time boxing says “Get specific things done in this time.”

Then again, it could be because those descriptions are for time boxing over longer periods of time. The idea is probably “release software within 6 months with two month milestones, no matter what features are ready by then” as opposed to this article which seems more like “here’s your deadline. Do something with your time!”

]]> By: cliffski http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-34 cliffski Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:25:02 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-34 wow this definitely works. it actually motivated me enough to do a proper schedule for my current game, and jeez... there is a lot to do. wow this definitely works. it actually motivated me enough to do a proper schedule for my current game, and jeez… there is a lot to do.

]]> By: Roger Jack http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-33 Roger Jack Wed, 20 Oct 2004 03:10:21 +0000 http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2004/10/timeboxing/#comment-33 I have had success with both forms of timeboxing, especially the second form. Sometimes I commit to working on something for just 15 minutes that I don't really want to work on. At the end of 15 minutes, I'm often becoming more interested in the task and I may keep working on it. I have had success with both forms of timeboxing, especially the second form. Sometimes I commit to working on something for just 15 minutes that I don’t really want to work on. At the end of 15 minutes, I’m often becoming more interested in the task and I may keep working on it.

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