So many people are so hard on themselves when it comes to productivity. We all need to get more done. We’ve all got long to-do lists, many things that we want to accomplish. We act like the challenges that we have to productivity are the result of a character flaw. But most of the time, your productivity challenges are not because of your personality or anything about you.

You might be struggling with productivity because you haven’t given yourself enough structures, systems, or routines in order to help you be productive. Productivity doesn’t emanate from your personality. It comes from the structures and practices that you’ve put in place. 

For this week’s episode, I’ll be discussing six productivity mistakes that you’re making, how you can fix these with a structure, system, or routine. Because staying productive is an ongoing process and it’s my goal to help you do better.

Here are the 6 productivity mistakes that you’re probably making:

1. Not having project management software (System)
2. Bypassing your project management systems
3. Not getting to email inbox zero
4. Overcommitting - doing too much 
5. Starting with the small stuff
6. Taking too long to do things

Links

Getting Things Done, David Allen

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