Tuesday 19 July 2011

Doubling Your Productivity in 30 Days

17 Tips To Double Your Productivity In 14 Days

1. Turn off all technology for 60 minutes a day and focus on doing your most important work.
2. Work in 90 minutes cycles (tons of science is now confirming that this is the optimal work to rest ratio)
3. Start your day with at least 30 minutes of exercise.
4. Don't check email first thing in the morning.
5. Turn all your electronic notifications off.
6. Take one day a week as a complete recovery day, to refuel and regenerate (that means no email, no phone calls and zero work). You need full recovery one day a week otherwise you'll start depleting your capabilities.
7. The data says workers are interrupted every 11 minutes. Distraction destroy productivity. Learn to protect your time and say no to interruptions.
8. Schedule every day of your week every Sunday morning. A plan relieves you of the torment of choice (said novelist Saul Bellow). It restores focus and provides energy.
9. Work in blocks of time. Creative geniuses all had 2 thing s in common: when they worked  they were fully engaged and when they worked, they worked with this deep concentration for long periods of time. Rare in this world of entrepreneurs who can't sit still
10. Drink a liter of water early every  morning. We wake up dehydrated. The most precious asset of an entrepreneur isn't time - it's energy. Water restores it.
11. Do't answer your phone every time it rings.
12. Invest your professional development so you bring more value to the hours you work.
13. Avoid gossip and time vampires.
14. Touch paper just once.
15. Keep a "Stop Doing List"
16. Get up at 5 am.
17. Have meetings standing uo.

STAY PRODUCTIVE AND MAKE YOUR WORK MATTER

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