Your Productivity Formula
Staying on task, despite interruptions, is tough to do. Your productivity formula will allow you to handle those pesky interruptions as they arise, while staying on track with your target project. This will result in higher productivity and performance. Here are some self help tips to customize your productivity formula.
You must have a clear plan. Are you daily tasks leading you somewhere, or are they simply getting you by? Take some time to review your long term projects and goals. Your daily task lists should be the product of those bigger projects being broken down. If your daily tasks are not leading you toward your bigger picture, start over. Make every task count.
Organize and prioritize. You have reviewed your goals and made sure that they are supported by your daily tasks. Prioritizing those tasks will keep you on schedule and help keep you from putting your energy and time in the wrong places.
Schedule breaks to recharge. Walk around for a few minutes. Stretch. Play a quick game of spyder. Your body and your brain will feel better and work so much better that you will make up for the lost work time, even exceed it.
Do not work through lunch. It does not make you look more dedicated than everyone and your mind and body will produce less without nutrition. That should be a no brainer, but continually people neglect their bodies for an extra 30 or 60 minutes of work. This is a hard one to break because people expect it of you. Or maybe your boss does not appreciate the importance of fueling and recharging your body. Do it anyway. Everyone will be impressed when they start seeing the resulting increase in productivity.
The sense of accomplishment you feel for a job well done will motivate you to move forward and tackle more so it is important to track you achievements and recognize them even if there is no one else around to appreciate them. If you don’t, you run the risk of burnout which will only cause your productivity to drop.
Do not procrastinate. Deal with as many unexpected tasks you can so that you don’t get bogged down later playing catch up. These tasks usually only take a few minutes to complete so deal with them immediately and keep moving forward.
It does not matter whether you are working on a big budget project at work or cleaning out your garage at home. Things need to get done. The completion of that work is productivity. Creating a productivity plan for you will put you on track to reaching your maximum success in life, work, and beyond.
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