The three main "enemy" for everyday productivity

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Productivity is expressed not only in the number of conferences, meetings and phone calls, but also in concrete results. How often during the work week, you catch yourself thinking that despite the completely insane pace and huge the amount of incoming information, nothing really effective and concrete all the fuss and flurry of "incoming" is not bring? The reason - the "enemies" of productivity: the daily and familiar to us all things and phenomena that we are used to taken as a given binding, not knowing exactly what they "eat" 80% of our working time.

No matter how much you may try to change their schedules, to learn new techniques of planning and even determine the order what about your work (if you are a freelancerRather than an office employee) - nothing will change if you do not define these "enemies." Surprisingly, there are only threeThey are familiar to everyone, and they are the basis of ongoing contact problems at work: from procrastination to failures in the living and working rhythm. Here they are:

1. Your calendar.

If you have started meeting regularly to carry or reduce them, because your business calendar "packed to capacity", the end of each working day looks like a silent reproach you for that you have canceled a number of meetings have missed some calls, "not come" to-call meeting with colleagues, or vice versa - are sitting in negotiating late, because "it is necessary to finish meeting. " As a result, your productivity as a specialist (and as a manager in particular) falls catastrophically. You - like a squirrel in a wheel, and picking up the pace, constantly spinning in the same place. And there is no excuse: great leaders and successful executives just as well live in a 24-day hchasovyh, but just better manage their time and not "cram" in the 8 calendar of meetings and negotiations in Day 5, "to all catch. "

2. Your promises.

Have you ever tried to compile a complete list of all your promises to yourself and others at least for the last couple of weeks? Or at least have noticed how many times we say to ourselves "yes, be sure to go to the gym / meet new customer / partner'll call / write a new resume / draw up a schedule of the day"? Noticed, no?

You can not indefinitely be on paper and in my head the lists of promises and purposes, not realizing it and without even trying to get closer to the point where most of these promises will be realized. If you are already "sunk" to the point that your promises perceive skeptical - it's time to change something. Or it is necessary to give less promises, or proceed to implement them - or no productivity growth and confidence you can not see.

3. Your communications.

In the "Inbox" has registered for permanent residence 400 unanswered emails? A stack of books on the table with the sticker "Read this month 'exceeds the height and thickness of the rural library bookcase? Presentations and brochures "with very interesting content," do not give a closed laptop or even a finish similar to its own presentation? Familiar? Then you definitely have a third "enemy of productivity": your communications with the outside world.

You "pressing" need "to deal with all incoming," which received a huge number of requests for information and achieve flow is simply unrealistic. Although there is a solution, and it is not easy: it is necessary to spend time on the choice of the management system for their affairs, problems, promises and communications; erase from life all unnecessary, and "fashionable" and leave only what is truly important; strictly limit the number of incoming information flow, to drop "digital noise" and even unwanted calls and meetings, which do not bring any results other than "killed" productivity. This is unpopular, difficult to implement and requires an effort of will, but it is - the only thing that can throw 'productivity enemies "of your daily life.