Being productive and maximizing time can be a huge hurdle for some. Discover 10 hands-on tips to increase productivity!
1. Prepare Before you Start
Productivity isn’t an “in the moment” thing. It happens long before you get to work and turn on your computer. The more you prepare ahead of time, and get clear on exactly what it is you want, need, or should do, the easier and faster you will move once you start.
The reason why so many people struggle with “being productive” is because they skip this step, and when they sit down, they expect to start flying even though they haven’t even decided where it is they want to fly to.
2. Eliminate D
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that every time your phone buzzes, your e-mail pops up on your screen, your office door opens, your train of thought is derrailed.
We like to believe we can both participate in a group chat via text and write our best-selling novel, but the truth is, we can’t. To think we can is wishful and naive, which usually leads to a poor workflow.
Your best work comes in silence.
It’s why people retreat and take vacations away from the busyness of life — to distance themselves from distraction.
3. Make Expectations Flexible
Sometimes the most productive thing you could possibly do right now is to brainstorm a million ideas, play with them for few, watch them fail before your eyes, and then come to a more refined conclusion of what it is you’re actually trying to create.
This is necessary in order to better understand whatever it is you’re doing.
5. Create a Routine
It is said the best musicians, athletes, innovators, etc., follow a daily routine that trains their subconscious to know when it is time to work and when it is time to relax. You train yourself to know, as soon as that hour strikes its time to enter a certain mode or state of mind which requires you to get things done.
Trying to be productive when one day you are working in the morning, the next day you’re working at night, the next day you’re working in the middle of the day, it gets exhausting.
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