7 Habits of Highly Effective Programmers

We mostly live our lives on autopilot habits that determine the outcomes that we have. From the moment we wake up (even while sleeping), until we go to bed we repeat certain habits that we do not pay that much attention. This does not necessarily mean that these habits are bad. It shows, however, how important it is for us to take the time and form new habits that produce remarkable results.

Let’s begin.

Focus on what you can do. Avoid wasting time and effort on things that are out of your control that drastically drain your energy and simply make you feel terrible.

You must have goals that are compelling for you. Goals that inspire you to wake up in the morning and make you give 120%. If you want to go full speed, you need to know where you are headed.

Setting clear goals is imperative.

Avoid distractions that constantly interrupt you at all cost.

As you are reading this article, there is probably a long to-do list with many tasks that need your attention. Not all of them have the same importance and urgency.

Prioritize your tasks based on this order:

1) Important and Urgent

2) Important and Not Urgent

3) Not Important and Urgent

4) Not Important and Not Urgent

Begin your work by focusing on your most important and urgent tasks

Your colleague does not have to lose for you to win. Both of you can win. Do your best to bring the most out of every situation for you and your colleagues.

It can be easy to just express your opinions and expect others to understand you. You may also pretend to be listening to your colleague while constantly scrolling down the Facebook feed, as he is talking. The real challenge can be for you to be an active listener.

Your friend deserves your full attention. When you are serious and seek first to understand, you are more likely to enjoy a reciprocal type of attention from your colleague as well.

Large projects represent the work produced by a lot of people. You must not even try to think that you can build projects of large scale that help millions of people all by yourself. You must be part of a team.

Be kind and supportive to other team members. Make them feel proud they are part of the same team as you.

Sharpening the saw means improving ourselves in all four aspects of our nature. These dimensions are physical, mental, social/emotional, and spiritual.

We must work out, eat healthy and meditate to improve ourselves physically.

We must master the fundamentals, and constantly learn new things and work on challenging tasks if we want to improve ourselves mentally.

We need to be helpful and feel empathy for our colleagues to improve ourselves socially and emotionally.

We need to grow and contribute to improve ourselves spiritually.

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