We are never satisfied with our productivity. We all want to be happy with our work and confident as per a survey from 45 working hours a person wastes up to 17 hours. With this number of unproductive hours, no one can achieve the desired productivity.
After searching for a long time we finally found out how to increase your productivity by doing less work.
1. USE YOUR RHYTHMS TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE
Make a list of things you do daily and weekly, as the time you do those tasks matters too. Not all the time brings out the best of you. Your tasks can include
- Emails
- Team meets
- Strategizing
- Brian storming
- Article writing
ACTION STEPS
Go through your task list and allot your time accordingly, you can easily schedule it for a particular day or week. As you can’t keep a steam meeting on Monday without them facing problems for the whole week. You can later shuffle your task according to your preference. You can keep brainstorming in the morning for better productivity. As per research, personality development classes in surat and a person’s brain works more effectively in the morning and he even has better control of himself, this phenomenon is known as the morning morality effect.
As the day goes by, the ability to make the right decisions decreases. Decide and get your team to plan everything in the morning as they have a fresh and clear mind.
2. LEARN TO WORK AND READ FASTER
If you’ll talk to anyone who is successful and knows time management the first thing they’ll suggest is to read faster. This way you’ll save several hours which can be used for other productive tasks.
ACTION STEPS
- Learn keyboard shortcuts
- Use guides to speed read
- Reorganize your desktop and mobile applications as per your use.
- Speed up your mouse this can help you save about an hour a week.
3. CHEW GUMS
Chewing gums has amazing effects
- Speeds up performance – as per science the reaction increases by about 10 seconds
- Boosts cognitive abilities – as per a survey of 150 students it was proven that students who chewed gums before the test scored higher than those who were chewing it during the tests or not chewing at al. as chewing gums keep the brain active and help in reading information and solve complex problems easily.
- Combats sleepiness – another survey stated that chewing gum during the day has helped people feel less sleepy. Psychological studies say that chewing gum keeps your brain active and increases your performance and keeps your body alert. Even while multitasking you will feel less stressed.
- Makes you more Charismatic – a survey between many pairs of twins proved that the twin who was chewing gum was more positive compared to the one who was not chewing it.
ACTION STEPS
Keep a chewing gum table at your office and offer it to your teammates when they are sleepy.
4. USE DOMINO AT WORK TO BE MORE PRODUCTIVE
You can easily increase your productivity by choosing the tasks very wisely. Choose the work of the day by flipping a domino. What exactly is a domino? It is choosing the task which has a great impact on your goals compared to the rest. Different activities give us different values in the same amount of time and work, so it is upon you which one you want to do and how. A theory states that 20% of what we do is 80% of what we want. So the domino would lie in that 20% work.
ACTION OF WORK
Know the 20% of your work that is going to impact your overall goal. And you invest your most time in that and eliminate those which are not that important.
5. MAKE A TO-DO LIST
The most commonly found mistake in the to-do list of people is that they make it according to the time they have whereas they should make it according to the talent they possess.
6. USE PRODUCTIVE SELF TALK
Right before you start your tasks give yourself a prep talk about how you will approach them. The three most common techniques are
- Self-talk – telling yourself stuffs like “I can do this” or “I am ready for this”
- Imagery – to imagine yourself you did the work in a successful way and in a great efficient manner.
- If then – plan thighs in a certain way, for example, try giving yourself regards or pleasure after a whole day of work.
7. WORK WITH CHUNKS
Many times it gets hard to start some work, it might take us weeks, months or days to get started with something. And the deadline is near. As per psychology, our brain gets overwhelmed by big tasks. To get the tasks in an easier way is to break them into chunks, seeing smaller tasks will make your productivity smoother. The best way to work is to distribute your work into 20 minutes tasks which will make it easier to be done in a day.
8. CREATE A BREAK LIST TO BE PRODUCTIVE
As per a study people who work straight for 90 minutes and take a break of about 15/20 minutes have more productivity than rest. As our body matches with this rhythm. During the breaks, you can surf Twitter or youtube to get fresh enough to work again. A break list is a short pleasurable time between work, you can keep a track of your break list and maintain your productivity, don’t surf social media.
LIST OF BREAK LISTS
- Call a friend
- Change your environment, work from a different location, go for a walk
- Watch educational and entertainment videos
- Write down your thoughts
- Take up a new hobby
- Self educate
9. GET A GREAT MORNING AND NIGHT SCHEDULE
The best way to get a successful day is by having a great morning and evening schedule. Make a systematic approach to your tasks by knowing if you are a morning person or an evening, and schedule your tasks accordingly.
