10 bad habits that are killing your productivity

1. You do not make up a work plan

Do you have a list of tasks, and you're going to meet them all, but you have no idea when. The result is quite difficult to understand the full scope of work and competently distribute tasks on a daily, weekly, monthly. This leads to the fact that you have or do not have time for the deadline, or too dashing lift off and lose strength by the middle of the race.

What to do

Use a paper diary or special applications, to plan the work. Make them repetitive routine tasks in the months ahead, and do not forget to record arriving.

Keep track density. Let the work will be distributed on a straight-line. This will help avoid burnout and work in a comfortable pace. And still it will clearly show that all the time busy, if someone decides to hang up on you additional business.

2. You make very tight schedule

You have planned everything and happy - but only on the first day. Then it turns out that it is not always able to correctly assess how much time will be spent on the task. In addition, from colleagues and management arrive other tasks. As a result, a lot of time to spend on the plan rebuild in a burning deadlines.

What to do

Approach to the issue rationally. Highlight on task longer than you need to certainly still have time. Leave empty time slots under the sudden additional cases. So you reduce the level of stress and as a result, will no longer keep up.

3. You do not automate processes

Much in the modern man - a trick. If you continue to carry something with their hands full involvement rather than entrust this car, you're wasting time.

What to do

It seems that it is easier to do everything manually, than to deal with the new programs, algorithms, and so on. This is true for single-use applications. But with repetitive things differently. Better to spend the day and release many hours in the future.

For example, if your work is not associated with numbers, you can easily perform calculations manually. If it is a regular statistical monitoring, will prescribe the correct formula to «Google Table." Then you will only need to make the new data and the results obtained.

Another example: you fall down to the post office dozens of letters, and not all urgent. Among them there are very important messages from loyal customers, a little less important from colleagues and newsletters that you need to look through once a week. If you set up the sorting according to the sender, you get three folders with different priority and no longer have to look through the entire list of correspondence, to find the right letter.

4. You are distracted by time-killer

Checking social networks and read chats in instant messengers - the case when he decided to rest for 5 minutes, and eventually distracted for an hour. They take time, bringing nothing in return. And you end up everywhere late.

What to do

If your work is not associated with social networks and messengers, there is nothing important happens to you. So select yourself a limited amount of time that you will give them.

Turn off all notifications, except for notifications to the workers chat. Even if you do not open the rock and the social network as soon as the phone beeps, you are still part of the attention you are giving thought, and who wrote it.

It will soon become obvious that the time has increased, and the stress level down, because now you do not boil a hundred times a day what the Internet someone is not right.

5. You do not know how to refuse

You have the reputation of sympathetic person, so you are constantly coming with requests for help, advise, teach and drink tea together. But your acceptance is beneficial vizitoram and minus you, as stealing a valuable time and increases the amount of work.

What to do

A little more than self-interest: assess the situation through the prism of his employment. If you have free time, why not help. If everything around in the fire, then you shall give priority to their own affairs.

6. You practice multitasking

What looks nice in the abstract, is not always effective in practice. Switching between the business - it is also a job that takes time. As a result, you are much longer to solve problems than if it proceeded to them consistently.

What to do

leave your supernormal in case of emergency. In the absence of hectic activity solve tasks one after the other. If it makes sense to combine them close in value of the group.

7. You do not settle for simple solutions

Even routine tasks you're trying to twist so as to find some embodiments. Pay a lot of attention to detail, strive for perfection. But the game is not worth the candle, and the result is just wasted time.

What to do

Not to exaggerate the importance of the case, ask yourself what value will be your decision tomorrow, next month, next year. Whether the result will give sufficient easiest approach. This will help you stop kidding yourself.

There is a caveat. Possibly delaying the time you are trying to put off unpleasant tasks for later. If so, just proceed with it.

8. You do not delegate the work

The expression "You want to do something good, do it yourself" breathes pride. The idea that no one can replace you, tickles the sense of self-importance, but it is very far from reality. Indeed, something you do better than others, but with many of your colleagues have problems to cope just as well. And you will free yourself of the time.

What to do

If you feel you can not cope with the volume of work, ask for help.

9. You do not learn from mistakes

Err is unpleasant, but it is useful. It shows us the problems and helps avoid them in the future. If you repeatedly step on the same rake, something needs to change.

What to do

It is important to sometimes slow down and think about the results of their actions. Something went very well, then, methods of solution should take note. If you are having trouble, it is better to find their source and to consider several options for addressing the problem. So you easily get out of the situation the next time.

10. You compare yourself with others

You're struggling, but colleagues cope with cases faster. And you spend time trying to experience what is behind them.

What to do

This approach is counterproductive. Everyone works at their own pace, so the comparison with colleagues will not work. All the more so the higher the speed does not mean greater effectiveness.

It is much better to compare their own results with their same. Set targets for yourself that you want to achieve, and think about how you can get better.

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