now I thought my last video was a tad
echoey that's why I have my mic closer
to me now
as many of y'all know I'm in my new
office a lot of hard surfaces not a lot
of stuff on the walls so naturally it's
an echo a room now that the mic in the
room is addressed not too long ago we
talked about learning code faster using
the Fineman technique but what good is
learning the findme technique if you're
not gonna use the the-- fine mint
technique and i'm not just talking about
simply not using it what I'm really
talking about is procrastination that
brings me to this video this video is
all about the one trick that I use to
prevent procrastination to increase
productivity to allow myself to code
faster to code better to be more
efficient and not just coding but life
as a whole and that is micro tasking now
what is micro tasking micro tasking is
something that I've talked about on the
channel time and time again I just never
called it to micro tasking it's
basically when you take a big problem
and you break that big problem down into
smaller problems you take those smaller
problems and break those down into even
smaller problems and you keep on going
until you have problems or tasks micro
tasks that are actually digestible and
that don't prevent you from starting on
those tasks if you are too scared
because there's a task or a problem that
is a bit daunting and you think it'll
take three hours well see what you can
do to shrink that down into a 30-minute
task I mean let's face it it's much
easier to get started while staring down
a 30-minute test and it is when you know
you have a six hour task in front of you
it'll also allow you to be more
productive instead of trying to figure
out all these different problems within
that six hour task
you just have X amount of a 30-minute
task and when you focus on one problem
at a time
you would have be more efficient you're
able to find a better solution for that
particular problem and then you're able
to move on to the next plus you'll be
more productive because you won't be
procrastinating due to a daunting task
in front of you that's why I always say
if you're looking for like motivation to
get coding you know you come home from
work from school or you wake up and you
just you just don't have that motivation
to go sit down on your computer and
start typing code just go in expecting
to code for 15 minutes that's it
ten minutes and then you're done you
could walk away you can feel
accomplished what have you more than
likely you're gonna be looking up at the
clock three hours from now trying to
figure out where in the world that time
went because you got into the groove of
things once you actually sat down and
started working you realise this is
something that you actually like to do
you may be daunting because you're gonna
be using all this mental power to solve
problems what have you but this is
something that you actually like to do I
mean I like to go work out it doesn't
mean it's always easy to hop in the car
drive all the way to the gym and start
working out but once I'm actually in the
groove of things lifting weights or
running or whatever the heck guide I do
whenever I go to the gym which hasn't
been recently I actually get into the
groove of things and I enjoy myself I
enjoy it when I'm actually there just
like you enjoy sitting in front of the
computer in coding so just just 15
minutes that's all you're done I think
you'll be surprised now instead of
talking to hypothetical let's take a
real world example and implement of
micro tasking how what we're gonna do is
we're gonna hop into the computer here
we're gonna look at this old website
that I kind of put together and on see
it's a web template that I just filled
out like a little resume portfolio thing
from when I thought I was going to be an
iOS freelancer alright I'm double miked
up here let's see what we can do like I
said I'm trying to reduce the echo by
just keeping the mic close to me for the
time being alright so the main objective
is to create a resume portfolio website
that is where we start and we need to
branch out from there now what do we
have within that resume portfolio
website well if we're taking this as our
example we have a home page and we can
have a little website tour as we go over
this so homepage hi I'm first Knight iOS
developer in designer
Virginia Beach works as a freelancer you
know I thought that was pretty good
and we have a resume section so this is
where all of the education work
experience would be located we have our
skills section which in all honesty I
was always confused about this these
sections it's like I don't know what 85%
swift code skills means but I mean it
kind of looks cool I suppose portfolio
this is where you will show off your
weather app for iOS your pokie finder
and then put your photos back there
behind it that I never did in your
contact section all right everything
seems fairly straightforward but there's
still quite a few elements within each
section let's take the resume section
for example for the sake of this video
this is the only one we're going to
fully brainstorm out so from top to
bottom we have a title we have a line
here to make it look nice we have a
button to download on my resume we have
a button that's get in touch that'll
take us over to our contact form we have
our title for education we have you
little widgets displaying the
information for education which is
officially outdated because I'm no
longer a student there and then we have
our work experience down here and what
we just did in theory you'll do for
every section for skills you have to
figure out exactly what you want to
label and they're not the actual skills
but do you want code skills widget do
you want software skills widget
professional skills widget for portfolio
display a photo in the background you
want to have titles you want have a
little description right there separated
by a line those are all the decisions
that you will have to make if you're
creating your own little webpage or your
own application because you are the
designer you're the developer you are
everything NASA do with that application
so you need to figure all that out now
you have to figure out what you want to
do first for a simple web page like this
I think it's reasonable to just start at
the top and go through each section
until you're done with the app so up
here you start filling out all the tasks
within this section or this user story
as you would call it you go down to the
resume you go down to the skills until
you finish with the insurance all of
this is easier said than done I
understand that but that's kind of the
point of making the video I don't want
everything to sound so difficult
I want everything to sound easy that way
you can implement this within your own
life not just coding problems I know I
course I focused a lot of my content on
coding problems like with the Fineman
technique how to learn code fast or the
Fineman technique that's something that
you can use in any aspect of your life
micro tasking is something else you can
use in any aspect of your life now what
I'm going to do now besides put on my
glasses real quick we're gonna take
these posted notes I'm very
I like to have things laid out right in
front of me to get a better
understanding and I think that will help
you all as well so we're going to
essentially brainstorm everything we
just talked about in order for a little
recap all right we're going to start
micro tasking we're going to start off
with our big problem and that is the
resume portfolio website we've broken
those down into five sections that is
the home resume skills portfolio and
contact section what we've done is honed
in on one for the sake of this video and
that is the resume portion for the
resume portion we have the section title
the download button the get in touch
button title and widgets now that we
have everything laid out and
brainstormed we are running into one
problem it's the fact that I like to
take my stuff everywhere I go because if
I'm out in the bout and I come up with a
better idea I want to be able to add it
into the applicable area or if I want to
change something around or edit or
what-have-you and that is where the
post-it app for Android comes in before
we get into it I want to thank poster
brand for sponsoring this video
y'all know if I didn't believe in
something I wouldn't have its sponsor on
the channel post
I mean it's posted brand poster brand
posted notes they're posted app for
Android just being released right now so
go on the Google Play Store and get it
but let me show you a little bit more to
make sure you're interested so what
you're able to do instead of just taking
a picture is what you have everything
laid out on your desk you can go into
the post it up for Android and take a
picture within the app what this does it
identifies every post-it note that is
within frame and it saves that into its
own personal board and within this board
you can leave them as is or you can
format them in a few different ways to
be able to edit the post-it note you're
able to delete post-it notes or if you
want to add a new post it note you can
do that as well and there are many
different features within this
application that you can use cluding the
ability to have multiple boards together
where if you wanted to have each section
separate from each other so it's a
little bit more organized within the
application you can do that too so if
you're anyone like me or basically
anybody else I know and you use post-it
notes I would highly recommend checking
out the post of that franchise speaking
of people who use post-it notes I swear
my tech late at work he has had the same
14 post-it notes stuck all over his
monitors and desk for the
year and that's it that is the one trick
I use that has helped me so so much
micro tasking so get off this video
after you give it a like and you
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down on your desk and start working or
sit down at your computer and grab your
post-it notes and start breaking down
those big tasks into smaller tasks and
those smaller tasks and to even smaller
ones
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