Productivity is one of the essential factors for success in any aspect of our life. Every one of us wants the reward of success. This overall success we want is determined by how we spend each day of our life, which shows that if you want to be successful, you have to work on improving your daily productivity towards your goal. Nevertheless, it’s easier said than done. Many people find it difficult to maintain a productive daily life that will bring about their success, which are due to many reasons — majorly their lack of knowledge about how to improve their productivity.
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Being productive doesn’t have to be a tough row to hoe. You don’t need complex systems or formulas to increase your productivity, as many people think. And it’s not a blessing restricted to a few people around the world. It’s something anyone can achieve when they have the right knowledge. If you’re not productive, the chances are that you lack the necessary information about boosting your productivity. There are several simple habits that can set you up for a productive daily life when implemented. All you need is to learn and apply them. Today, we want to show you.
15 of those habits that can help you improve your daily productivity and set you up for success
Stay Away From Information Overload
Information overload, especially in the morning, is one of the major causes of distraction, stress, anxiety and mental imbalance in people of the present generation. Research has it that more than eighty percent of people with a smartphone check their phone within fifteen to twenty minutes of waking up. This person would have seen a message pop up and read it, checked the news, and consumed a lot of information that they have already become overloaded with. And as a result, loss of focus and mental balance are needed for a productive day. Therefore, it’s important that you stay away from overloading yourself with information that is not important to your goals and put your phone aside when you wake up to focus your attention on the essential tasks of the day.
Break Down Big Tasks
This is mainly for the important, challenging task you need to do to achieve your goals. When you focus on the bulkiness of a task, you’re likely not going to start. So, you need to split those big tasks into smaller pieces and focus your mind on the small pieces. When you do this, your brain will only see a small task ahead of you, which will make it easy for you to start. And once you start, you should keep moving from one small piece of the task to the next one till you get it all done. This is one of the essential hacks to overcoming procrastination and becoming more productive.
Plan Your Day Ahead
This is one of the most important habits for improving productivity. Before you start your day, you want to plan every activity and task you will need to carry out ahead of the day. This will help you to prioritize the most important tasks that will take you closer to your goals above others and as well help you organize your day and stay focused. Some people plan their day in the morning when they wake up, while others make their plan in the evening before the next day. As for which is the best, we might not be able to say. But we prefer planning the night before the day because planning itself is a task that requires critical thinking and evaluation on its own. So it’s better to do it the previous night so that you can just start the day executing your plan with a full focus instead of waking up to start planning.
Domain Task In The Morning
Studies show that the time of the day when the productivity level of humans is at its peak is in the morning. At this time, our mind is free from distraction and mental imbalance. So, we tend to have more concentration and energy to get more things done. For this reason, it’s best to delegate the most important task of the day that requires your maximum focus, energy and thinking at this time of the day for optimum productivity.
Go Over Your Goals Daily
Human beings generally have a short attention span, which is why we easily lose focus and forget about our goals. This forgetfulness mostly leads to failure in achieving the set goals. In order to avoid this problem, it’s best for you to go over your goals on a daily basis. You should review your goals and analyze how close you’re to achieving them every day, both in the morning when you wake up and evening before you go to bed. This consistent viewing of your goals will help you to always remember them and work towards them to make them become a reality.
Let The Afternoon Be For Management
After working for hours , our productivity level will decline as the law of diminishing return will start to set in. This is why we tend to procrastinate more as our energy, focus and discipline level will have reduced drastically. So, if there will be any task at this time of the day, it should be tasks that don’t require much effort, focus or thinking. By doing this, you’ll be able to get both the challenging and simple tasks done and thus improve your productivity level to a remarkable height.
Figure Out The Three Most Important Tasks For The Day
Many people think productivity is about working long hours a day and getting many tasks done. This might appear to be correct, but when we consider some factors, it will not be so. This can be understood when we compare someone that spends a few hours on the tasks that are most important for his goals and someone else who works many hours on things that are not really relevant to his goals. By default, the former is more productive than the latter even though we spent fewer hours. So, the level of productivity should be measured based on how close you’re getting to your goals. Before you start your day, you want to ask yourself the three most essential tasks for your goals, that if done, would have taken you a lot closer to them. This will help to prioritize tasks and use your energy and focus on the tasks that will help you achieve your goals faster, instead of wasting them on less relevant tasks.
Surround Yourself With Productive People
If you want to be productive over the long term, this is the habit you need to adopt. Human beings are creatures of habit. And one of the basic habits that we cannot do without is to relate with friends, families and other people around us. However, the problem is that our real personality will be determined by the kind of people we’re surrounded with because energy is contagious. When you have positive, productive and goal-oriented people around you, you’ll also be motivated to be like them so that you don’t lag behind, and vice versa is the case when you only have unproductive people around you. Whenever you have to relate with people, you want to select the people you relate with based on your goal of productivity.
Create Buffer Time
One of the reasons some people are discouraged from planning their day is because they think they’re not able to keep up with the plan and thus feel frustrated and devastated. Oftentimes, the problem is not from them; it’s from the way they set their plan, which makes them think they’re not productive. But, before we talk about the way out, it’s important that you know that planning is so no way to imprison yourself. It’s for you to be organized and maximize your productivity. So, if you’re not able to meet up with a plan, you don’t have to bite yourself. All you need is to figure out the problem and adjust against the next day. Another solution is to include a buffer time in your plan. This time is meant to be a balance for you against the unexpected event that might come up during the day.
Drink Water When You Wake Up Every Morning
One of the reasons why some people could not have a productive morning is the sluggishness, stress and irritation they feel when they wake up. Little did they know that this problem can be due to dehydration. While sleeping for longer hours in the night, you don’t take any food or drink, and your body is still metabolizing, which leads to dehydration which causes some negative feelings when you wake up. The simple solution to this problem is to consume water immediately after you wake up. This will help you to get your body hydrated and get yourself in the right mood to carry out your daily activities. Try this out, and your productivity level will skyrocket.
Access Your Performance For The Day
This simply means holding yourself accountable. You have made the plan and have gone through the activities of the day. It’s important that you account for your performance at the end of the day. As humans, we are not perfect beings. So, we need to keep growing and adjusting till we become better. When you access your daily performance at the end of the day, you’ll be able to know if you’ve done the task necessary for your goals, detect what you’re doing wrong that’s affecting your productivity and the task that consume much of your time, and in the end, you can evaluate the necessary adjustment to make for optimum productivity.
Recreate At Leisure Time
Just like we have mentioned before, a long time of work, focus, and dedication will lead to a reduction in productivity as energy levels will keep diminishing once the threshold has been reached. This shows that there’s a need for us to revive and regain our energy so that we can keep up with the tasks of the day. This is done through recreational activities that you do in your leisure time. You don’t want to fill up all your day with work without rest. You should have some time for fun so that you can relieve yourself of the stress of work and return yourself to a good mood. This will boost your productivity level.
Think More Of The Reward And Less About The Pain
Getting the tasks necessary for you to achieve your goals is no fun. It requires your time, energy and thinking, which might make you not want to attempt them. When you think of all these pains involved in your work, it might lead to procrastination, which is a big block to your productivity and overall success. This is why mindset shifting is very necessary. Instead of focusing your mind on the time and energy, and stress getting tasks done will cost you, you should focus on how it’ll help you achieve your goals and enjoy the fulfilment of success.
Assign Time To Each Task
Another habit that’ll help you to improve your productivity level is timing. As a human, we tend to act based on how pressured we’re to get things done. If you give yourself a day to complete a task, you’ll spend a day, and if you give yourself a month for the same task, it’ll take a month for you to complete it. So, you need to assign time to every task in accordance with the shortest time possible to complete the task. This will help you to get more focused and throw away the thinking that you still have time, thus helping you to get more done within the same time.
Start Practicing
This is another important habit that will improve your productivity. People learn a lot of things from time to time. However, the one that will benefit them is the one that they put into practice. This means that learning is not enough; application is where you will get the result. So, whenever you learn anything new, always try to put it into practice for optimum productivity. This will also mean that you should be selective of what you learn and make your learning step by step for easy application.
In conclusion, being productive is not as hard as many people see it. It only requires your ability to learn what it takes, apply it in your daily life and keep improving and adjusting till you become better at getting tasks done and managing your time to achieve your dreams and become successful.
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