Comments on: Jerry Seinfeld’s Productivity Secret

By: Seinfeld And The Habit Tracker - Advice on organized and productive living through lifehacks and GTD

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:05:35 +0000

[...] I would rectify that situation today. My latest template basically allows you to easily implement Jerry Seinfeld’s productivity secret. The basic idea is that each day you work on a big project or habit you put a big cross over the [...]

By: Hector

Hector — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:38:02 +0000

This is a new concept for me on Goal setting and Im excited to try it myself… I am on Personal Development Industry and Im thinking of including the same to my training modules. Thanks for this concept…

To the advancement of wealth consciouness of the world, I remain!

Hector, Philippines

By: Harveen

Harveen — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 19:25:35 +0000

Great idea! Esp. the motivational chain. I’ll try this with the one goal at a time. Also, thanks for the insight/ideas in the other posts.

By: MusEditions

MusEditions — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:20:24 +0000

I recently started a blog at WordPress that includes a calendar highlighting each day I’ve posted something. I don’t like seeing the non-highlighted days, so perhaps I’ll use the blog calendar as a “chain” to implement this concept and post every day. Thanks for sharing this! BTW I linked over to you from the Silva Newsletter.

By: Al Diaz

Al Diaz — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:55:13 +0000

This rocks!
Thanks

Al Diaz
http://www.thetitusconcept.com

By: Monika Birkner

Monika Birkner — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:55:37 +0000

Hi, great article. I know the benefits of daily action from own experience. That’s the way I have published two books. But the visual reminder is certainly very helpful. Thanks for sharing.
Monika

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:32:14 +0000

Another use of this idea might be to work on one positive habit each month. It takes from 21-30 days to develop a new habit. So for example in January you might work on saying your affirmations every day. By the end of the month it becomes a permanent habit. Then in February you go to work on another habit. If you are in network marketing, you might commit to making x number of calls per day. By using this method you could install 12 positive new habits each year!

By: Brad Isaac

Brad Isaac — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:13:09 +0000

@Matt, I’d advise you to only do one goal at a time using this method. It is built to hammer away at one. If you pop in more than one I’d think you’ll have a harder time with it.

It is a powerful strategy, but the consistency factor must be weighed carefully. It’s easy for humans to be consistent on one new action per day. But as we add on more, then the consistency can give way to excuse making. (i.e. “At least I did ___________ I am going to give myself an X even though I didn’t do _____________________” )

You’d have to be the judge though. Experience has taught me, this method is both powerful and challenging. There will be sick days, tired days, days you just don’t feel like doing it. Those will be the days you’ll be thankful you only chose one goal for the Seinfeld method.

Good luck!

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:21:03 +0000

His secret is really worth revealing.
Motivation is like a cycle. We need new ones over time to keep us going. Some may be using a certain motivation for a long time, but new motivation has a different effect.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 01:14:23 +0000

Great post. It’s a good way to keep our motivation running. It’s true that breaking the chain once make it easier to break it again. It’s like giving ourselves a reason to break it.

By: Barb

Barb — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 06:19:58 +0000

That’s a great idea. Once we’ve established something like the chain which gives us a visual representation of our performance, it makes us aware of our great job.

By: Frankie Val

Frankie Val — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:07:52 +0000

Great article that simplifies a lot of strong points we can make about the basic mechanics of the universe! I have used similar techniques in creating and building the concepts behind my radio station - check us out! http://www.zedalza.net

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:07:21 +0000

Really interesting idea - I’ve never heard of anything like that before, so I’m going to try it out with a couple of my major goals and see how works! Thanks for the nice post!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 01:51:50 +0000

Wow, what an amazing insight. I would have never thought about setting a goal like that. I believe my life will start to change one step at a time, and change one day at a time.
I have started to make everyday start new and fresh, when I wake up and start with making mention for everything I am grateful for, and at the end of day the same.
I will start to work making me learn more and more everyday.

By: Samir

Samir — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:00:56 +0000

Excellent article Brad.

Anyone who reads enough material on personal development is bound to have come across the call for consistent action at some point, and anyone who thinks beyond the surface level of productivity knows that consistent action is the only true panacea of all these issues. But I have never seen it put into such simple and straightforward practicality before.

Now at last, I have some use for all those gigantic single-sheet calendars. Thanks for the tip. And thanks to Jerry Seinfeld, of course.

Samir
http://samirbharadwaj.com/blog/