50 tips for productive work

Manage time and tasks

1. slow down time

Usually we do 12 to 15 breaths per minute. If you breathe deeply, it can be a little "slow" time perception. To do this, inhale using the diaphragm and abdominal muscles. Make 7-9 of deep breaths at the beginning of the business day before to take up the challenge, or when nervous.

2. Carefully check the work, so you do not alter

Remember the adage, "Measure twice, cut once"? It is better to double-check that you did everything correctly, than to spend time fixing bugs.

3. Less watching TV

If you add up all the time that we spend on movies, series and other programs will receive years. But more time is spent on what to choose, what to see, and then discuss what they see. It is better to spend it on something useful.

4. Wake up early

This will give you more time to work. You can respond calmly to the letters and plan the day or take the time to myself, read and play sports.

5. Keep a diary of time

Celebrate what you spend it within a few months. You will notice when the time is wasted, and in what intervals you particularly productive.

6. Use the waiting time to good use

While sitting in the queue, you can read the article, which is not enough time to parse email or sketch a draft of an important document.

7. Do not keep all in your head

Write down on paper to-do list, shopping or creative ideas to the idea of ​​them not distract from the work. Trying to keep them in mind, you create yourself unnecessary stress.

8. Spend a little time once to save in the future

Such a rule can be applied to everything. When cooking dinner, Make twice as many servings and freeze half. In the next few nights will not have to cook and wash the dishes extra. Wipe the sink and shower after each use to the weekend not to spend half an hour on their thorough cleaning.

9. Make decisions faster

The time it takes on the vibrations and weighing all the pros and cons, you can spend on something really important. So make a decision and move on.

10. Manage your task list

Usually we expunged only what they did. But sometimes you need to delete what you do not exactly have time to do, otherwise the list will grow and put pressure on you.

11. Group similar tasks

For example, select one day cleaning and other household chores. One day at the meeting, the other - to create content.

12. Do not write long messages

Let them be concise: the majority of the messages can be summed up in five sentences.

13. Exclude something from the graph

Most likely, you have already taken on too many things. Look at your calendar and think of what to give up. For example, from the things that do not help move the goal, Consuming too much force or no longer fit into your life.

14. Give up the multitasking

Switching from one case to another, you are running slower and more get tired. Select one problem and focus on it.

Try the productivity methodology

15. Master the technique of Pomodoro

Work segments of 25 minutes, and then start a five-minute break. During operation, try on what not distracted, and in a break and relax not to look in the phone.

16. Use chains method

Crossed out in the calendar the date when it was possible to make all scheduled or run a big problem. After a few days you will be a chain, which you do not want to break.

17. Take note of the two-minute rule

If the task can be done in two minutes or less, do not procrastinate. This rule uses the system founder Get Things Done David Allen.

18. Enter into the habit of method "Must, must, want"

Every morning, ask yourself three questions. What I have to do today to make a maximum contribution to the business? That I must fulfill in order to improve their future? What I want to do, to live today with pleasure?

19. Try to get into flight mode

Imagine that you are on the plane, and turn off the internet, to anything not to be distracted. An hour of profound work can be done more than 2-3 hours ordinary.

20. Consider ultradian rhythms

This natural biorhythm of the body, which are repeated every 90-120 minutes. Keep track of your the ups and downs of energyTo know at what time to schedule difficult tasks, and when to take a break better.

21. Arrange days without meetings

Start one day a week, during which will not be distracted by the meeting, and take only the basic work. If you personally do not have authority, proposed this idea to the head.

22. Spend Sunday check

Sleepin with my team to make sure that everything is ready by Monday. Or arrange a brief proving to himself. Make sure that you have a plan for the week and you have not forgotten anything.

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23. Turn off notifications

While working on an important task, do not get distracted by email and social network. Allocate a separate time to check messages and the responses to them.

24. Please note that you will distract

It is inevitable, therefore, leave the schedule the free space, so you do not get nervous.

25. Move the deadline

If you think that the task will go an hour, give yourself a deadline in 40 minutes. We'll have to work faster, which means that you are not distracted by extraneous things.

26. Make a list of cases for the period of procrastination

For example, to get out on the table to sort out the documents, read the news in the professional sector.

27. Make a list of what not to do

Make it bad habitsWhich takes time and hinder productivity. Keep this list in front of his eyes, so as not to succumb to them.

28. Use a password manager

Then you do not need to spend time painfully remembering the password is rarely used by the mailbox or restore data to access the site.

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29. exercise

This will strengthen the physical health and charge of good mood. Try to get up a little earlier and go for a run or do yoga.

30. eat right

Avoid fast food, sweets and fast carbohydrates. They give a burst of energy for a short time. Give preference to products in which a lot of fiber, combine fast carbs slow.

31. Expect caffeine reception

Caffeine begins to act about 40 minutes after entering the body. So drink coffee or tea at the wrong time, when they approach to the problem, and in advance.

32. meditate

It relaxes and helps to develop the skill of concentration. Start with the easiest option - to close your eyes and concentrate on your breathing.

33. Maintain a suitable temperature in the room

If you are too hot or too cold, work effectively will not work. For most people, the most comfortable temperature - 21-22 ℃.

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34. Determine in advance the desired result

Before you call someone or proceed to the problem, think about what you want to achieve with this action. Then vote whether to get you to achieve the desired result. If not, think about what went wrong and how to fix it.

35. Develop a mindset of growth

Believe that you can develop the necessary skills and become better, if you make an effort. See all the difficulties as an opportunity to learn something new. That's what it is growth mindset.

36. At the end of one week to prepare the next

Disassemble the mail and try to close all the unresolved issues. Uber on the desktop. Look at the calendar and task list for next week. Perhaps something can be deleted and replaced with things that you've been putting off.

37. Keep a diary Thanks

Every evening write him three things for which you are grateful today. It helps us to see life more opportunities and positive. If three things are not recruited, describe one thing, but more.

38. Learn to say "no"

Many difficult to refuse new responsibilities, but there comes a time when it is necessary. Otherwise you will bring yourself up to burn.

39. Give yourself time to rest

For example, enter a habit to turn off your phone for the weekend and did not respond to operational messages in the evening. Sometimes you have to forget about everything that is connected with the chores, and just recharge.

40. Set a target processes

These are actions that you need to make on the way to a big goal. For example, if you want to increase sales by 25%, your goal is to process - to ring a certain number of potential customers per day.

41. Admit your mistakes and move on

Do not engage in self-flagellation. Remove the bugs a lesson not to repeat it in the future, and live on.

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42. Do not use too many applications

Now the mass of calendars, trackers and other assistants to help in the fight for productivity. And if you use them all at once, on the contrary, complicate your life. Therefore, the limit to a few most necessary.

43. Open access to your calendar

It's easier to plan meetings and not to forget the joint deadline. You can make and a family calendar that will record common activities and chores.

44. Plan no more than three major tasks for the day

Long lists are ineffective: you just do not have the strength to perform a lot of big problems for one day. Identify the three most important and dedicate the rest of the smaller business.

45. Keep a paper with a pen

If during operation you come to mind a useful idea, just write it down and forget for a while. Try to keep it in mind, you will be distracted exit flow conditions.

46. Include graph of time on the road and rest

Do not plan to close the case. Almost always happen any problems and emergencies. Be aware of this in his plan for the day.

47. find a mentor

He can share tips, which once helped him. And guard against errors, lie in wait for you on the way.

48. Do not focus on the entire problem of the whole

Go in small steps. Focus on what should be done first, and then - on the next step, and so on. Otherwise, the amount of work you are paralyzed, and you start prokrastinirovat.

49. Forget perfectionism

Ideal does not exist. It is a product of our imagination, that simply can not be embodied in reality. Do a good job and get to the next thing.

50. Reward yourself

The reward for the achievement of a goal or passing an important step to increase the motivation and simply improve mood. Importantly, do not reward yourself with sweets - better to go for a relaxing massage.