The document outlines strategies for developers to enhance productivity, emphasizing the importance of awareness, willpower, and established rituals. It introduces techniques such as the 55-10-55-30 rule for focused work sessions and the concept of identifying and eliminating energy robbers. Additionally, it encourages scheduling distractions and making commitments public to ensure accountability in achieving personal goals.

1. HOW TO DOUBLE
YOUR PRODUCTIVITY
AS A DEVELOPER
KARTHIKEYAN VK

2. WHY YOU HAVE TO BE PRODUCTIVE ?
• Keeps your eyes on the prize.
• When you’re productive, you can develop other
aspects of your life, like your intelligence, relationships,
health, creativity and muscles.

3. WHY YOU HAVE TO BE PRODUCTIVE ?
• You can be more leisure and not feel guilty.
• Not feel insecure about yourself.
• Helps to be in peace of mind.
• Time to do whatever you want in your life.

4. WHY YOU HAVE TO BE PRODUCTIVE ?
• People who are more productive are the one who does
lots of fun filled activities.

5. PRODUCTIVITY IN DEVELOPER TERMS
• Focussed work.
• Time to learn new things.
• Time to contribute back to society in one way or
another.

6. PRODUCTIVITY IN DEVELOPER TERMS
• Less Stress.
• Reduction in Fear of imposter syndrome.
• Better self talk when we are in caught up in a problem.

7. WHAT IS PRODUCTIVITY ?
• Productivity describes various measures of the
efficiency of production. - Wiki

8. PRODUCTIVITY
LESSONS
Awareness
Will Power
Building Rituals
Reducing friction
55-10-55-30 Rule

9. PRODUCTIVITY
LESSONS
Schedule your distraction
Making Success Inevitable

10. AWARENESS
We can always know, what to do next. When you are aware of your own distraction and
find ways to get out of it, you will find lots of
time to do what you want to do for a long time.

11. AWARENESS
Awareness is conscious about what you
are doing and not feeling guilty about it.
Do you feel guilty when you do things
that are not productive such as watching
a tv series or movie to pass time.

12. AWARENESS –
GETTING OUT OF
GREY ZONE
Learned this
from Power of
full engagement
from Tony
Schwartz.
We rarely focus
on one thing and
loose the
enjoyment and
productivity of
everything.

13. AWARENESS –
GETTING OUT
OF GREY ZONE
Say you are workaholic and love
your family, when you are
working intensely you think
about your family
When you are with family, you
think about work, so you don’t
enjoy at any point of time

14. LIST YOUR GREY
ZONE ? – TRACE
YOUR GUILT

15. AWARENESS –
COMPLETING
LOOSE ENDS
“Incomplete” work robs our
energy.
Drop all the incomplete if
possible. Does lots of good
to you
It may be your plan to read a
book, you bought 2 years
ago.

16. AWARENESS –
COMPLETING
LOOSE ENDS
Find all the bookmarks and
pdf you have saved to read
it later. Delete them.
Clean your slate and start
fresh.

17. WHAT ARE YOUR
LOOSE ENDS ?
CLEAR THEM

18. AWARENESS – ENERGY ROBBERS
FIND YOUR ENERGY ROBBERS. THINK IN TERMS OF PHYSICAL,
EMOTIONAL,
MENTAL(LEARNING) ENERGY.
FIND THEM ELIMINATE THEM

19. AWARENESS – ENERGY ROBBERS
PHYSICAL – YOUR CHAIR OR
LOOSE KEYBOARD, MOUSE OR
LAPTOP.
EMOTIONAL – PERSON YOU
STILL HOLD GRUDGE ON.
MENTAL – DISTRACTIONS IN
YOUR LIFE LIKE MOBILE,
FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM ETC.

20. LIST YOUR OWN ENERGY ROBBERS
PHYSICAL
EMOTIONAL
MENTAL

21. WILL POWER
• Secret to success is using willpower consciously.
• Your Will Power is limited.
• Remove all the success preventing activities from your
life

22. WILL POWER
Think Will-Power in terms of
Habits.
You have very less Will-
Power at your disposable.
Don’t waste your Will-Power

23. WILL POWER –
HABITS
Building habits to increase
Will-Power.
Rituals helps you to build
habits.
Always try doing new things
for 21 days.

24. WILL POWER – HABITS
First 7 days is hard. Second 7 days, you will feel resistance
but it is not very hard, you just need
little push.
Third 7 days, it will become like second
nature like brushing your teeth, you
don’t think, you just brush.

25. WILL POWER –
HABITS

26. BUILDING RITUALS
WAKEUP EARLY EARLY MORNING HALF
LITRE OF WATER.
DO SOME FORM OF
PHYSICAL EXERCISE.
EAT THAT UGLY FROG
FIRST.
THINK PRODUCTIVITY
EQUALS MORNING
HOURS.

27. REDUCING FRICTION
• Let your two angels talk to
each other
• One that says you need to do
it.
• One that say you cannot do it.

28. REDUCING FRICTION – WRITE A BLOG CONVERSATION
Good Angel Dark Angel
I need to write a blog You cannot write, it is too
hard
But I can write what I learnt But people might laugh at
you
Laugh at you for what ? That You don’t know what
you are talking about ?
Ok, I will start the blog
saying am writing what I
inferred and also do more
research
But your English is bad, you
cannot form a sentence
I will write whatever that
comes and use the grammar
correction tool and use my
friend help.
That might work

29. 55-10-55-30
RULE –
FOCUSSED
PRODUCTIVITY
55 Minutes of doing only one thing
10 Minutes of Rest
55 Minutes of doing only one thing
30 Minutes complete, no distraction.

30. 55-10-55-30
RULE –
PREREQUISITES
Get the room temperature right.
Close the door.
Get all the material once, like pen, pad etc, so
you are not distracted in that 55 minutes
Use the rest room if you must.

31. 55-10-55-30
RULE –
PREREQUISITES
Have a bottle of water, if you need to.
If you get distracted, comeback to the
one thing.
Meditation helps because they teach
you to bring your concentration back to
breath, it is all about bringing focus
back.

32. SCHEDULE YOUR DISTRACTION
SET A TIME FOR YOUR
DISTRACTION.
SPEND TIME IN FB,
TWITTER ETC.
BUT DO IT ONLY DURING
YOUR SLEEPY TIMES
AND LAZY PERIODS.
SO YOU WILL NOT FEEL
LEFT OUT FROM THE
CROWD.

33. MAKING YOUR
SUCCESS
INEVITABLE
Use commitment and
consistency, influence
technique.
Gift your friend if you don’t
do what you promised your
self will do.
Publish your commitment
publically

34. MORE TIPS ..
• Disable all notification in your mobile
• Uninstall FB, Insta and games app.
• Set your mobile to Grayscale in your mobile
• Don’t use internet for looking up words in dictionary
while reading

35. MORE TIPS ..
• Take 2-3 minutes to prepare for before starting activity.
• Learn to rest without your mobile or tv, just closing
your eyes.
• Try to sit in leg folded position when reading or
watching any tutorial.
• Drink lots of water.

36. SUMMARY
• Awareness
• Will Power
• Building Rituals
• Reducing friction
• 55-10-55-30 Rule
• Schedule your distraction
• Making Success Inevitable

37. THANK YOU
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• Try the techniques, one by one.
• What is the first technique, you can try today.