How many days a week do you actually dedicate to work? Research conducted by Microsoft has proven that there are only three. But if you think about it, we are capable of more than 72 useful hours and 4 days of procrastination! And it’s not about working nonstop, but about finding a balance between rest and work. Tim Ferriss, author of How to Work 4 Hours a Week, Live Anywhere, and Get Rich, gives six tips for making every day as productive as possible.
1. Manage your mood
We read about how to improve our productivity and try to do as we were advised, but nothing works. That's because productivity tutorials are designed primarily to be read by a robot. Well, or the hero of the dystopia “Equilibrium”. They are not designed for the rich range of emotions that we can experience.
Always start your day calmly. Warm up, stretch, focus on today's goals and objectives. Prioritize them. During breakfast, try to resist the temptation to read the news feed - this will bring you unnecessary stress and interfere with digestion.
By reading work emails first, you are wasting your personal time working for other people's goals.
Under no circumstances start working right in bed! Many of us are already checking work email within four seconds of waking up and starting to panic about the volume of work tasks. When we start the morning like this, the whole day we will not do something, but react.
“The first hour and a half of my morning is exactly the same every day,” says Tim Ferriss. - My body is accustomed to this routine, it helps me keep the situation under control and not give in to panic during emergency situations. And if I’m calm, that means I’m productive.” A good start day is the key to productivity. And here Bad mood- a direct path to procrastination.
2. Don't check your email in the morning.
For most of us, this advice will sound like real stupidity. Indeed, how is it possible to wake up and not check your work and home email, all the news feeds of all social networks? But to the question “What would you like to spend more time in your life?” no one will answer that by mail and social networks. Just imagine: when you read emails first thing in the morning, you can't help but react. Which means you spend best time(your personal time!) to work for someone else's life goals instead of your own.
“If possible, don’t even open email apps or instant messengers for the first two hours after waking up,” advises Tim Ferriss. - I agree that most people find it difficult to even imagine this. So how do I make my to-do list for a day without email? How will I know what tasks I need to complete today? You will be surprised, but you can form 80-90% of your daily plans without looking at Outlook. You can, of course, stop by, but do you need that dose of cortisol and dopamine early in the morning? I don't."
3. Before rushing to do something, ask yourself - is it necessary to do it at all?
To the main question “Why can’t I do everything?” there is a very simple answer. Because you are doing too much. Want to increase your productivity? Instead of spending hours trying to complete one task, ask yourself: “Is this the way to do it?”
“Doing something perfectly doesn't make it a priority,” says Tim Ferriss. - People go to time management training and learn to get things done as quickly as possible. But the problem is that some of them don’t need to be done at all.” It's funny how we complain about not having enough time and then prioritize as if we have enough. So what to do? Perform only tasks of primary importance. And nothing else.
4. Focus - Eliminate distractions
“All people in the world have attention deficit disorder, which appeared under the influence of life in modern society"says Ed Hallowell, professor at Harvard Medical school. Really modern life really distorted our priorities? No. It’s just that there’s a whole carousel of bright, shiny and so attractive distractions spinning around us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Our ancestors lived without it. Therefore, we need to work where there is no this distracting merry-go-round.
“The essence of concentration is to minimize the number of factors that can lead you to procrastination,” explains Tim Ferriss. - People perceive concentration as a superpower. This is wrong. It is the ability to place yourself in an empty room with only the work to be done and close the door. That's all".
The importance of self-discipline is greatly exaggerated. A clear daily routine is much more effective
I immediately remember a story about students at a New Haven school whose classroom windows overlooked railway, along which freight trains constantly ran. At the end of the year, it turned out that all the students in this class were behind in the program. They were moved to another classroom, away from the distracting noise of trains, and their performance improved.
In short, the more distracted we are, the worse it gets. Top management of large companies are interrupted on average every 20 minutes. How do they manage to complete so many tasks in a day? They work every morning for an hour and a half from home, where no one can disturb them. And then they go to work.
What are you thinking about right now? “I have other responsibilities.” "My boss needs my help." “I was invited to a business meeting.” “My husband calls me.” “I can’t just go and hide”... That’s why you need a system.
5. Develop a system
“I don’t know how I manage to do everything. I just do everything as it turns out and hope for the best,” these are words you will never hear from successful people. Every productive person has a daily routine.
“A clear daily routine is much more effective than self-discipline. “In my opinion, the importance of self-discipline is greatly exaggerated,” Tim Ferriss states categorically. “I usually ask people to create a daily routine so that decision-making only relates to the creative part of their work.”
How to create an ideal system? Tim Ferriss suggests the 80/20 method.
- Determine which actions are responsible for the majority of your success.
- Determine which activities are reducing your productivity.
- Develop your daily routine so that there is several times more of the first point than the second.
So, are you ready to wake up tomorrow with a clear head, fresh thoughts and a clear daily routine. But how do you know where to start and what to do?
6. Before you go to bed, set your goals for tomorrow.
It is very important. Then you will be able to wake up and clearly understand what you should do and in what order, and no “pseudo-schedule” will ruin your day.
“It’s best to identify one or two urgent and important things before dinner. This will help you clear your head before bed and prepare for tomorrow,” recommends Tim Ferriss. Create a nightly ritual for yourself. Try to finish work at the same time. Then save all files, disassemble the desktop. Slowly make an action plan for tomorrow.
How to become productive and get everything done? How not to waste your time on unnecessary things that do not lead you to success? You just need to follow simple tips. Here is a list of 33 ways to increase personal productivity.
33 ways to become productive
1. Destroy it. Most effective method will cope with the task - cross it out. If it is not necessary to do it, then remove it from the agenda.
2. Daily Goals. Without focus, it's easy to get distracted. Set goals for each day in advance. Decide what you should do. And then do it.
3.The worst comes first. To overcome procrastination and procrastination, you need to learn to do the most unpleasant tasks in the morning instead of putting them off to another time of the day. This small victory will lead to a very productive day.
4. Peak activity. Determine the time when you work most effectively and schedule important tasks during it. Work on non-essential tasks when you are not at your peak.
5.No Interaction Zone. Place blocks of time for work that requires concentration next to each other. Schedule simple tasks and tasks that can be performed in the interaction zone, while important tasks can be performed in the non-interaction zone.
6.Mini kilometer posts. When you begin a task, define a goal that you must achieve before you stop working. For example, if you're working on a book, you might decide not to get up until you've written at least 1,000 words. Achieve this goal no matter what.
7. Time limit. Give yourself a specific amount of time, such as 30 minutes, to get things moving. Don't worry about how far you can go. Just work during this time.
8. Grouping. Group similar tasks, such as phone calls or errands, into one block and complete it in one go.
9. Early bird. Get up early in the morning at 5 am and start working on the most important task right away. You'll likely get more done before 8 a.m. than most people do in a day.
10. Corner of silence. Take a laptop without Internet access or WiFi and go somewhere you can work until you drop without risk of interruptions, such as the library, the park, a coffee shop, or your backyard.
11. Pace. Choose your rhythm wisely and try to move a little faster than usual. Speak faster. Walk faster. Type faster. Read faster. Come home early.
12. Relaxation. Reduce your stress by creating a relaxing and tidy workspace.
13. Agenda. Provide a written agenda to all meeting participants. This greatly increases their attention and efficiency. It can also be used for phone calls.
14. Pareto principle. The Pareto principle, or the 80-20 principle, states that 20% of the effort produces 80% of the results. Focus your energy on that important 20% and don't overdo it on the less important 80%.
15. Ready-Aim-Fire. Beat procrastination by taking action as soon as you set a goal, even if the action is not well planned. The plan can always be adjusted along the way.
16. Solution in a minute. Once you feel like you've gathered all the information you need to make a decision, set a timer and give yourself exactly 60 seconds to make it. During this minute you can hesitate and doubt yourself as much as you like, but as soon as it ends, you need to make a choice. Once the choice is made, you need to take some action in this direction.
17. Deadline(deadline). Set a deadline for completing the task and use it as a guide to stay on track.
18. Promise. Tell people about your decisions, they will help you not to abandon them in the future.
19. Punctuality. By all means, be on time. Better yet, early.
20. Read during pauses. Read during pauses, such as when you're waiting for a meeting to start, standing in line, or waiting for your coffee to brew. If you are a man, you can read while you shave (preferably with an electric razor). You can read 365 articles in a year.
21. Resonance. Imagine that you have already achieved your goal. Implement it in your head and soon you will implement it in life.
22. Brilliant Prizes. Give yourself frequent gifts for achievements. Watch a movie, read a book, get a professional massage, or spend a day at an amusement park.
23. Second quadrant. Distinguish between truly important tasks and those that are simply difficult. Find time to work on critical Quadrant 2 tasks that are often important and rarely urgent, such as exercising, writing a book, or finding a life partner.
24. Continuity. At the end of the working day, determine the task that you will start working on the next day, prepare materials in advance. The next day, start working on the task immediately.
25. Divide and rule. Break complex projects into small, specific tasks. Focus on one of these tasks.
26. Single-tasking. Once you start a task, work on it until you complete it 100%. Don't switch between tasks in the middle. When something distracts you, just write it down so you can deal with it later when you're done.
27.Bring in randomness. Choose a random task big project and complete it. Pay a random bill. Make one phone call. Write page 42 of your book.
28.Crazy bad. Overcome procrastination by doing a task deliberately poorly, knowing that you don't have to share the results of your work with anyone. Write a blog post about the taste of salt, create a horribly dysfunctional website, or a business plan that guarantees bankruptcy in the first year. If your project outline is so terrible, then you have no other way but to the top.
29. 30 days. Decide what new habit you want to form and stick to it for 30 days. A temporary obligation is much easier to keep than a permanent one. Read the article Success in 30 days
30. Delegate. Convince someone else to do the work for you.
31. Cross pollination. Take up martial arts, start a blog, or join a drama club. Often ideas from one area can improve your productivity in another.
32. Intuition. Trust your intuition. She's probably right.
33. Optimization. Identify the process you perform most often and write it down step by step. Improve them on paper. Then test these improvements in action. Sometimes it's hard to notice what's right under our noses without a microscope.
Chris Bailey spent a year experimenting to improve his productivity. Here's a guide he put together based on his lessons for anyone who wants to become more effective. After graduating from university, I received two great job offers, but I turned them down - because I had a plan. For a year, I was going to absorb all the productivity information I could get my hands on and blog about it every day. Over the course of the year, I conducted countless experiments, interviewed many extremely productive people, and read a ton of books and studies on productivity. To wrap up this year, I've compiled a list of the top things I've learned this year. These are my favorite ways to hack time, energy, and attention to get more done every day. The article is long, but it's easy to scroll to the right place! Time management How to have more time
1. Spend less time on important tasks. It seems counterintuitive, but practice shows that it helps. When you limit the time you spend on important tasks, you force yourself to expend more energy in less time. a short time and do these things on time.
2. Forget about TV. Average person spends 13.6 years of his life watching TV - they are better spent on more meaningful tasks.
3. Record your time wasting in a diary. When you track where your time is spent, you can see how much of it is being wasted, which can help you reclaim wasted time and think about how to spend it better in the first place.
4. Avoid activities that drain your time, energy, and attention. It's best to simply keep unproductive activities out of your life.
5. Remember that the best is the enemy of the good. Your home will never be perfectly clean - something will definitely be wrong. Know when to stop, especially in less productive activities.
6. Set aside a day for technical tasks. Group all such tasks (laundry, shopping, cleaning, watering flowers, etc.) into one day so that the rest of the week you have more time to focus on more promising tasks.
7. Don't work more than 35 hours a week. Research shows that under this condition we reach peak productivity and creativity. Yes, working late makes you more productive - but only in the short term.
8. Your emails should not be longer than 5 sentences and it is best to mention this in your email signature. I've gotten crazy fast with my email using this technique, and most people are all for it when you keep it short and to the point.
9. Turn on The Email Game app if you use Gmail. This is a free add-on that turns answering emails into a game.
10. Sign up for Unroll if your email is on Gmail, Yahoo or Outlook.com. This app collects all your subscriptions into one convenient daily email.
11. Stop putting letters into folders. Search letters by keywords much faster.
12. Learn to touch type. This way you will save a lot of time. 13. Track your computer time with the free RescueTime app. You'll be surprised how much time is wasted.
14. The larger proportion of your income you save, the better. If you don't pursue fashion and entertainment, you can shorten your working life by decades. How to spend time doing the right things
15. Identify your most productive activities. Make a list of all the things you are responsible for at work and ask yourself: If you could only do three of these things all day, which ones would you choose? This is where you need to invest 80-90% of your time.
16. Keep your workouts short so you don't feel resistance. This is a great way to learn new habits. “Can I meditate for 15 minutes? No, I feel resistance, I won’t. OK, what if it's 10? Still a lot. What if it's five? Hmm, it seems easy. I think I can do it.” That's all.
17. Work on important but not urgent tasks. Every day, complete at least one important task that you can’t finish right now - this way you will move forward in achieving your long-term goals, and not just close current holes.
18. Use the Pomodoro technique: focus on something for 25 minutes, then rest for 5 minutes. It's incredibly effective.
19. Make a procrastination list: productive and meaningful things to do the next time you procrastinate. This will help you stay productive even when your brain is trying to escape from the tasks ahead.
20. Follow the “two minute rule.” This rule from David Allen's system states that when a task takes less than 2 minutes, just do it instead of putting it on a list for later.
21. Plan free time. This seems like a backwards principle, but actually structuring our free time makes us happier and more motivated.
22. Determine the next thing you will do based on four questions: where you are (office, home, cottage, etc.), how much time you have, how much energy you have, and what are your most productive activities.
23. Watch how you spend your time. Constantly check and reflect on how you spend your time (and energy and attention) throughout the day. To do this, I set notifications on my phone that sound every hour.
24. Schedule time when you completely disconnect from work. During this time, your brain is still thinking about work issues, but in the background while you are busy doing something else.
25. Spend more time planning. A minute of planning saves five minutes of implementation. If you just execute and don't plan, it's hard to work smarter.
26. Keep in mind what people really mean when they say “I don’t have time.” Usually it’s not that there is no time at all, but that the task doesn’t seem important enough to them.
27. Pause before sending important emails and messages. Give your brain time to form thoughts so your message can become more complete, valuable, and creative. The world will not collapse, and you will be able to convey your point more accurately. Energy management Body control techniques
28. Play sports. This is the best way to become more energetic, and it also helps fight disease, improves your mood and improves sleep.
29. Eat better. Your food greatly affects your energy levels. The worse you eat, the faster you get tired, and the less energy you have for current affairs.
30. Stop drinking coffee out of habit. Caffeine loses its effect when you drink a lot of it daily, but it is very effective if you use it strategically (only when you need a boost of energy or need to focus).
31. Consume caffeine wisely. Drink more slowly, drink water at the same time, stay away from sugary energy drinks, eat well when consuming caffeine, don't drink coffee on an empty stomach, and don't rush into a second serving of coffee or tea.
32. Don't drink caffeine less than 4-6 hours before bed. It reaches peak levels in the blood within an hour and is eliminated within 4-6 hours.
33. Drink more water. Water adds energy, speeds up metabolism, helps you think, suppresses appetite, helps your body eliminate toxins, reduces the risk of many diseases and even helps you save money!
34. Drink half a liter of water after waking up. Your body has just gone without fluid for eight hours and is clearly dehydrated.
35. Keep a diary of what you eat. People who keep such a diary usually do not overeat - and eat, on average, almost a third less.
36. Get enough sleep - even more than you need. Sleep enhances concentration, attention, decision-making skills, creativity, social skills and overall health, and reduces mood swings, stress, anger and impulsivity. By the way, there is no difference in socioeconomic status between larks and owls.
37. Don't drink late at night. Drinking alcohol before bed impairs sleep quality and reduces energy the next day.
38. Set the air conditioner to 21–22ºC. At this temperature we are most productive.
39. Set the air conditioner to 18.5ºC overnight. Most studies recommend turning your bedroom into a cave at night, where it's cool, dark and quiet.
40. Learn to nap during the day. If your energy is low during the day, take a nap. It strengthens memory, attention, curbs burnout and enhances creativity.
41. Constantly be aware of your energy levels and act accordingly. This way you can recharge your energy in time when there is little energy, and take on bigger, more daring things when there is more energy. Soon you will start to notice certain trends. 42. Find your biological peak by tracking your energy levels throughout the week.
43. Smile! It boosts immunity, helps you cope with stress and see the bigger picture, makes people more trustworthy and just feels good.
44. Paint your office in the right colors. Blue stimulates the mind, yellow stimulates emotions, red stimulates the body, and green instills a sense of balance.
45. Before going to bed, try to look less at colors in the blue part of the spectrum. Looking at your phone, tablet or computer too much is bad for your sleep.
46. Try to be in natural light conditions. It helps you fall asleep, reduces stress, and increases energy and focus.
47. Download f.lux - this program shifts your computer's colors to the red end of the spectrum when the sun goes down, which encourages the body to create more melatonin and improves sleep. Brain Control Techniques
48. Introduce new habits to change your life automatically. This is how changes last for a long time.
49. Learn to reduce stress: exercise, read, listen to music, spend time with friends and family, get a massage, walk in nature, meditate, engage in creative hobbies.
50. Take frequent breaks. This gives you new ideas, allows you to think about your work and become more productive overall.
What matters is not What you think, otherwise How you think, says Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author of The Power of Habit Charles Duhigg. In his book, he explains how to become smarter, faster and better by following eight key rules. “The Secret” read the book and chose the most important tips.
Being productive doesn't mean working more or longer
We focus on unnecessary things and obsess over productivity tools—gadgets, apps, and to-do lists—rather than learning the lessons technology has to teach us. To become smarter, faster and better at everything we do, we don't need the help of technology, just simple, proven principles.
When I wrote this book, I had not had a single day off in nine months and I thought that if my children had to choose between a nanny and me, they were unlikely to choose me.
Motivation is a skill like reading or writing
Self-help books often portray motivation as innate quality or the result of the work of the subconscious, when we compare the effort expended and the possible reward. Scientists believe that motivation is more of a skill that can be improved, just like reading and writing.
To increase motivation, you need to believe that you are in control of the situation. That's why cable companies always ask a lot of questions when signing a contract. If your manager asks you whether you want a regular bill or an itemized bill, what channel package you want, and what TV programs you like, you'll feel like you're in control and you'll be more likely to pay your bills on time.
If you just can't get started, try to make at least some choice. Select one email from your inbox and reply to it. Start writing scientific work from the conclusion or take up the graphs. Choose a restaurant to meet an unpleasant person. Think about what question you'll start your next phone conversation with.
Praise yourself not for your intelligence, but for your diligence
People with a developed internal locus of control are confident that the future is in their hands, and they blame only themselves for success and failure. These people tend to earn more, have more friends, stay married longer, and are more successful and satisfied with their lives.
External locus of control, which is the belief that your life is controlled by events that you cannot control, increases stress levels because a person believes that any situation is beyond his control.
During an experiment in a US school, fifth-graders were divided into two groups and given the same test. The first group of children were told that they did well on the test because they worked hard. The second group of children were also praised for Good work, but with one exception - the schoolchildren were told that they were very smart. Subsequently, the second group performed worse on other tests simply because the children did not believe that they could influence how smart they were.
Internal locus of control is a skill that can be learned and that most of us develop from early childhood. Unfortunately, by the time they reach adulthood, some people's sense of self-determination is suppressed and they forget how much influence they can have in their lives.
Your team is only successful if every member feels comfortable
At the core successful work Any team is based on five principles: - the team must be sure that its work is important; - the team must feel that its work is personally meaningful; - the team needs clear goals and assigned roles; - team members must know that they can rely on each other; - everyone on the team should feel protected.
To stay focused, imagine your task in as much detail as possible.
Research from Yale, Harvard, Berkeley and other leading universities shows that people tend to make mistakes when they are torn between automaticity and focus. This makes the use of automated systems in airplanes and cars especially dangerous. There have been cases when planes crashed due to the fact that the pilots simply could not focus on the numerous sensors and displays. That's why in the age of automation, focusing is more important than ever.
To reduce the likelihood of plane crashes, pilots are taught to tell each other stories about what could potentially happen. This method helps them quickly concentrate during a crisis situation. If you want to focus on work without being distracted by phone calls, office chatter and meaningless email messages, e-mail, try to imagine your day in the smallest detail first thing in the morning. During the meeting, mentally describe what you see and analyze what it means.
If you have children, imagine what they will tell you about at dinner tonight, imagine what they might ask you about at work, or what task they might ask you to do. In this case, your brain will create a scenario possible development events and you will be able to effectively cope with a sudden difficult assignment, answer an unexpected question from the director, or notice that something is wrong with your children.
Every employee has the right to influence the work of the company
Whether I'm installing mufflers, greeting guests, or cleaning office spaces, I know more about it than anyone else. If the company does not benefit from this knowledge, it will be wasted. No matter how good your product is or how loyal your customers are, the company won't function well if employees don't trust each other and don't believe their voices can be heard.
Successful companies avoid layoffs until there is no other alternative. They invest in training, value teamwork and the comfort of their employees, offering them maternal support programs and the ability to work from home. Company with high level trust does not risk that its employee will leave for competitors or take clients with him.
In the 90s, American corporations dreamed of revealing the secret of Toyota, which produced cheap and very high-quality cars. When they arrived in Japan, employees of American automobile companies were surprised to see that assembly lines in local factories stopped whenever a mechanic needed extra time to check a car door. The cost of a minute stop exceeded several thousand dollars, but each worker could stop the conveyor at any time. This arrangement was more profitable than the one in which employees did their work poorly, for fear of admitting their mistakes to management.
Employees work better and faster when they believe they can influence the company and make important decisions, and their colleagues have a stake in their success. A sense of control can fuel motivation, but to do so, people need to know that their suggestions will not be ignored and their mistakes will not be used against them. A culture of trust in a company doesn't guarantee good sales or a great product, but it does create an ideal environment for generating great ideas.
View the future as a set of probabilities and learn to make predictions
Probabilistic thinking is the ability to hold many conflicting versions of the future in your head. We are not accustomed to think about multiple futures because we live in one reality. For many people, this is also unacceptable because they are forced to think about things that they hope will never happen.
For example, you are 100 percent likely to love your girlfriend right now, but if you want to propose to her, you better calculate the probability of whether you want to remain married in 30 years. Even though you know for sure that you love her right now, thinking about the future will make you focus on things that don't mean anything now, but will be very important later. You will be honest with yourself, even if you have to admit that there are things you are not sure about.
When my colleague Howard's son was nervous about going to college, we came up with a list of 12 schools: four schools he was sure he would get into, four schools he had a good chance of getting into, and four schools he had little chance of getting into. After studying statistics on college websites, Howard and his son calculated the probability of admission to each college on the list. It turned out that a young man has a 99.5% chance of getting into at least one college from the list and a pretty good chance of getting into good college. We also found out that he most likely will not be able to enter the most best schools. This upset him, but after doing the math, he began to worry less about his future.
This is one of the most important secrets to making good decisions.
The right choice is based on predicting the future. The accuracy of forecasts depends on how many positive and negative factors we take into account. Successful people always pay attention to mistakes. They ask themselves why things didn't turn out the way they hoped.
To understand whether a movie will be successful, you need to be in both a crowded and an empty theater, to calculate life expectancy, you need to take into account both old people and babies, and to develop business acumen, you need to interact with both the successful and the unsuccessful colleagues.
No one can predict the future with absolute accuracy, but the mistake many people make is that they try to avoid making any predictions because their craving for certainty is too strong and the fear of doubt holds them back.
Use your emotions as a source for creativity
Disney forces its employees to use own emotions to write dialogue for animated characters, weaving real feelings into fantasy situations. This method deserves attention, if only because thanks to it, anyone can become a generator of ideas, using their own life as fuel for creativity.
Creativity is a common solution to problems, although, of course, from this comparison it loses its magical aura. Creative people pay more attention to problems and ways to solve them, they simply learned to trust themselves and were able to release their creative potential.
Sticky notes were invented by an engineer who was very annoyed that bookmarks kept falling out of his books. Cellophane was developed by a chemist who wanted to protect tablecloths from wine stains. Baby food was created by an exhausted father who pureed vegetables while trying to feed his crying baby in the middle of the night.
As we see, this principle is not limited to the film industry, but it is especially characteristic of it. The animated film Frozen only got a decent script after the entire team spent months searching for the right experiences for the main characters. In the original version, neither Elsa, nor Anna, nor Olaf could evoke in the viewer positive emotions, the plot looked clumsy and at the very first test screening no one shed a single tear, which for a Disney cartoon was tantamount to failure.
Only after each of the writers, producers, artists and songwriters remembered what it was like to quarrel with sisters and brothers as a child, how difficult it is when you try to be good, and society judges you over and over again (this is how the character of Elsa was born), As fear prevents our warm feelings from manifesting, the film acquired the right sound. As a result, it won numerous awards, including an Oscar, and became the highest-grossing animated film in history at the time.
You don’t have time to do anything, you’re constantly busy, you don’t have time to rest, and things pile up like a snowball? It's not that you don't have time. The point is that you don't know how to manage it. How to be more productive, get everything done and have more rest?
Several useful strategies for competently planning your time and your affairs. Time and energy are too valuable resources to be scattered in all directions.
How to be more productive
1. Get more rest. People deprive themselves of rest and sleep in the hope of getting everything done. But as a result, everything gets worse. Distracted attention, lack of strength, constant fatigue and poor thinking. Sound familiar? These are all signs that you are not getting the rest you need. Establish healthy sleep, nutrition and take time to relax. This way you will be more productive.
2. Plan your day. When you don't have a plan, the day will make its own, but less effective. External factors can waste your time and distract you from other, less important matters. A plan allows you to stay on track and be as productive as possible. Make yourself a plan not only for the day, but also for the week, month, six months and years ahead.
3. Remove everything unnecessary. Free your desktop or space from everything extraneous. Order allows you to concentrate on work and not be distracted by various nonsense. Disable social media, notifications and other distractions.
4. Don’t rush to agree and say “no” more often. It's time to think carefully before agreeing to everything. You need to learn not to immediately say “yes” to colleagues, acquaintances and friends. Don't take on circumstances that will make your life more difficult. Say “I need to think”, “I’ll give an answer later.” Give yourself time to think before taking on extra burdens and other people's problems. After this, you will say no more often and will be less constrained by promises. This will give you the opportunity to solve your own affairs and problems, and not carry other people’s difficulties on your back.
It’s easier to be productive if you take a more responsible approach to your life and don’t let everything take its course. Do you control your time and affairs?