Unlock the secrets to success with these ten productivity techniques. Designed to enhance efficiency and focus, these strategies will transform your daily routine, paving the way for greater achievements. Prepare to redefine your understanding of productivity and success.
Fight off Four Types of Distractions
Everything around you is designed to steal your attention and with it your most valuable resource – time.
Develop a Morning Routine
Set the tone for the rest of the day by establishing a morning routine that aims to make you alert, help you take care of your health, intellectual and spiritual growth, and gives you a quiet time to focus on your biggest goal
- Develop two types of habits: Habits that can improve quality of your life in the present and Habits for the future
Evaluate Your Day
Pull yourself back and evaluate how well you’ve executed your plan in the previous period, so you can improve it based on the insights you’ve gathered.
- Every week, set aside 30 minutes to analyze the previous week and plan out the next one.
Trigger the State of Flow
The state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.
- This state is something you can learn to trigger on command and develop a habit of using it on a daily basis.
Clarify Daily Priorities
Map out what exactly will you be working on that day, and in what sequence you will complete each task.
- Not knowing priorities makes us random and it takes us a longer time to get to work
- Ask yourself these questions: What are my top priorities for tomorrow? In what order will I complete each of them? How much time do I need to commit to each task?
Gamify the Process With The X Method
For each day that you do the positive behavior or stay away from doing a negative one, you get to put a big X on that day.
- This works well because after a week or two, you’ll have a chain, and you’ll like seeing that chain of X’s, so much so that you will do almost everything you can to maintain it. From that point on, your only job is not to break the chain.
Productivity Cheat Sheet
The skill of using your time efficiently is among the most crucial ones you can master.
- There are 10 strategies that provide you with the biggest leverage in life, as fast as possible
- Here they are, in the exact sequence that will give you compounded results.
The Ultimate Productivity Cheat Sheet
Utilize these practical techniques to take control over your time, build useful habits, and systematically achieve your biggest goals in life.
Commit to Your Health First
No matter what happens in your life, HEALTH COMES FIRST – which means that you need to take care of yourself first before you engage in anything else.
- Three things to keep in mind: Get enough sleep, eat a healthy diet, and move more
Mental Distractions
Breathe
- Consider mental distractions to be any thought unrelated to the task at hand
- One of the first ways to regain mental clarity is to simply breathe
- Ask yourself the following two questions: What should my focus be? Is this worth my time?
- Meditation is another way to refresh your mental state
Physical/Environmental Distractions
When we are not as invested in the task at hand, we often act as CROWS; we look for anything shiny around us that will distract us from doing work.
- To combat this, declutter your environment and make sure that you minimize physical distractions.
Crush Procrastination by Deconstructing Tasks
Break down the task into smaller pieces immediately, and just get yourself to do the first one in the sequence.
- In most cases, finishing the first task will trigger a momentum, and that will make it easier to complete the remaining mini-tasks, and the primary activity you started with.
Block Time
Define your priorities and how much time you need for each of them, then decide when in your schedule you want to commit a specific chunk of your time, to execute these priorities.
- Ditch the standard 8-hour workday. Dedicate a specific time to just one task to “block off” your time.
Digital Distractions
Make it difficult to access something
- Delete any app that doesn’t contribute to your goals
- Place the applications you use on a daily basis on the first screen, move everything else to the second and third screen
- Whenever you work, place your phone out of reach and turn off the internet
Social Distractions
Two things to try to reduce these: communicate your style of working to people, and expectations
Live a 24-Hour Life
Set a goal you want to pursue, and then break it down into activities and habits that will help you accomplish said goal.
- Every morning, focus on the day ahead of you, to take action towards your goal(s), and achieve incremental progress.
