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24 Ways To Become Highly Productive
- Get up an hour earlier.
- Use Sunday evening for planning the week.
- Say no. (the power of constraints). Ignore. Focus only on the thing you’re looking to achieve.
- Get a cleaner and stop spending your precious hours on this task each week (your time is worth a lot more)
- Turn off your emails on your phone
- Use a simple to-do-list like TeuxDeux and only put THREE things on it to get done each day
- Plan your day according to the most important, biggest task, not the smallest and easiest.
- Avoid meetings at all cost. If you have to go have one specific outcome in mind
- Know what the next step is at the end of every conversation
- Use Leechblock (Firefox Extension) or Nanny (Google Chrome) to block out times when you can’t access social media and other distracting sites
- Set a timer to go off at 30 minute intervals to focus on one activity and take a short 1 minute break to refocus
- Take a proper break after 2 hours for 10-20 minutes and dance to your fave song, do some pushups, get out in the fresh air
- Ask yourself “is what I’m doing right now getting me closer to what I want to achieve.
- Know what you’re looking to achieve – what does finished look like?
- Play motivating upbeat music while working to keep your energy levels high
- Keep an idea book to dump your distractions in, and come back to them a week later
- Keep a journal of WHAT you have achieved – either in a notebook or I recommend online journal Penzu
- Work out what is important and what isn’t
- Stop procrastinating and just DO it!
- Throw out the TV – literally bury it in your back garden
- Turn off the internet. If you’re writing or creating go to a coffee shop that has no internet
- Outsource – get help using oDesk and Elance, and have someone else design your blog in 2 days instead of you taking 3 weeks
- Don’t say should, say “I will”. Think like Yoda `There is no try, there is only do or do not’
- Don’t answer the phone. Literally. If it’s important they’ll leave a message
