CODESHIFT
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Presents

1. WAKE UP

You can sleep till noon, and be the cool lazy programmer. Or...  you can do this:

A wake up calendar. If you manage to do this EVERY DAY for 3 MONTHS,  you will grow a new HABBIT.

2. REMOVE PROCRASTINATION TOOLS

Go ahead, open up reddit. I'm sure there's a SHITLOAD of new stuff you'd enjoy. Check your facebook... your ex is still with that DOUCHEBAG (Hey, I might be the guy, haha). Go to gmail, read those mails.

OR... you can use your LEET PROGRAMMING SKILLZ and do yourself a favor. Make a script that will ban all the sites that aren't making you productive. Only allow yourself to visit reddit, facebook, gmail for 1 hour in the morning. IF YOU WAKE UP, you can procrastinate from 7:00 to 8:00, providing your machine was turned on at 7:00, so that the cronjob could trigger.

A friend who founded a fashion startup (he wakes up at 8:00), joked that this would be an awesome productivity booster, if implemented as an application.

3. CREATE A MORNING RITUAL

You are very smart. Very intelligent. Nobody F*CKS with you mentally. There is absolutely no way you would want to practice a ritual, something which is completely out of the mind and exists only in the domain of the reptilian brain. Well, punk, think again. If you do the ritual right, it will give you focus, and energy for the rest of the day. If you spend the whole year hacking, that morning ritual will keep you sane.

A sample ritual goes like this:

- wake up, the first thing you do, drink 1/2 liter of water (body needs it after the whole night it spent without)

- go do your stuff in the bathroom

- run for 10 minutes, lift weights for 10 or 20 minutes

- meditate (if you can)

- shower

- eat

4. GET TO WORK

Do it.