Sri Kandikonda

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/299336

1. Create a Time Audit - Audit your time for 7 days straight. You have no idea what you are spending time on, until you start tracking it and putting it on paper. Get some real data for a week and then see where you stand.

Important thing to note is to track. every. thing. including items that you don't think that are important. and be very honest with yourself.

I've to tell you, I did this for a week and my results were embarrassing. I'm not very proud of some of those items in there, but that's ok. Then I knew, what exactly I was doing. There was no assumptions, these were cold facts and once you do it, there will be some very obvious things that you don't want to do.

And there will be a lot of scope to improve it.

how to do it: Nothing fancy, just take notes somewhere you can hold on to for at least a week.

2. The 80-20 rule. The secret of achieving more with less.

This is the best time management tip of all. 80-20 rule of the pareto principle, 80% of the results come from 20% of the tasks.

The trick is to identify those 20% of the tasks that will fetch you 80% of the results. This also means that you have to trash items that are not really contributing to your overall success.

Here's a simple example. Let's say you have a goal that states 'I need to finish reading 5 books this month', but do you really need to do that? You would probably be well off, if you focused on 1 or 2 best books that will contribute to your goals. Quantity is not quality, is it?

This principle is true in life and relationships as well. Look around you, and you'd probably find about 20% of your relationships to be actually fulfilling and rewarding, rest of them are crap. So, focus on those 20% of people and make sure to be invested in them. Whether its your mom, dad, siblings, cousins, friends or your colleagues. I don't know, but just try to find that close 20% relationships and spend time on them, nurturing those relationships. Your life could be more fulfilling if you did that.

3. Take frequent breaks

Research shows that if you are working for 52 mins, you should take a break for 17 mins. sometimes, you may not have that luxury, but when you do, make it a priority to take a break. Focus is more important than the time spent on a task. To achieve higher productivity, you need your cognitive and psychological states to be at peak levels, and to do that, you have to take breaks, unless you are elon musk, then you work 15 hours a day without taking a break.

haha, anyway, taking a break will significantly improve your productivity.

-Ciao

Sri

This is a tip to make your to-do lists more enjoyable and energizing. To-do lists are great at boosting productivity, but they can get really boring if you don't incorporate items that you actually enjoy doing. You'll be surprised as to how well you perform if you do include simple pleasure that you actually enjoy doing into your daily checklists. It relaxes and energizes you.

1. Incorporate items into your to-do lists that you love to do.

2. Don't feel guilty for doing things you love. Just add them to your to-do lists and have fun doing it.

3. Happy people accomplish more. So, find out what makes you happy.

Cheers,

Sri

This is a tip to avoid distractions and boost productivity. Smart Notifications are a major distraction to focusing on a work effort and getting things done. According to a research, one-third of the notifications make your mood worse. Its no wonder that they are helpful, but most of them are not. So, turn the notifications off and focus on the work effort. You'll be able to get a lot more accomplished.

You'll see a mega boost to your productivity if you followed the 5 minute rule. It's simple. Once you have the To-Do list, identify items that can be finished in under 5 minutes and finish it. It may be an email that you need to send or a conversation you need to have with your colleague, do it the first thing. Once you do these, these small wins will give you momentum to plow through the rest of the to-do lists and get them done.

What's something you can do in 5 minutes or less that will boost your productivity?

This is a productivity trick that is insanely hard to do. That is to create a Not-To-Do lists. To-Do lists help you consciously write down what you need to do, but Not-To-Do lists help you consciously avoid the things you are addicted to or things that are holding you back from achieving your goals.

That netflix series you can't stop watching, that youtube feed you can't stop scrolling, whatever it may be that is hindering your productivity. Write. Them. Down. And Consciously make a choice to not do it. Sherlock, go get'em.

Pomodoro Technique a.k.a Tomato Timer, is designed to fight procrastination and help you become super productive. It's simple, you start out by writing down a large task that you need to finish. You then break it down into 25 minute tasks (set a timer for 25 minutes), followed by 5 minutes of break. you do this for 4 cycles followed by 20 minutes of a longer break. Research suggests that this technique can help you get your work done in half the time, or you can get double work done in the same time.

It's really helpful. Trick is to avoid distractions. Now, go get your tomato timer.

Productivity Tip #3 - Batching. Batching is the idea of grouping together similar tasks to do them all the same time. Think of laundry, for example, you don't wash just the pair of socks each time, you batch them up in a basket and do it at once. Similar concept with your Daily, Weekly, Monthly or quarterly goals. Why do you do that? Because there is task switching costs and set up costs involved with each work task and if you batch similar tasks at once, you can reduce these costs and improve efficiency and effectiveness. Have you used it before? What do you use to boost your productivity? I'd like to know more.

Productivity Tip #2 in this series is to create Daily Checklists. A Daily Checklist is the tasks you want to accomplish in that day prioritized in the order of most important tasks first. To be super effective, you need to tackle the most important task first, even if its most difficult. The second trick is to have a sense of urgency in executing these tasks. Sense of urgency is the #1 trait of successful CEO's after all. There you go! Now, go get your daily checklist going.

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