Highly productive professionals share the same clusters of habits:

One research survey, involving 20 000 individuals from six continents, wanted to find out why some people are more productive than others. 

• Focus on your primary objectives: Every night, revise your next day's schedule to understand your top priorities. 
• Manage your work overload: Skip over 50-80% of your emails based on the sender and the subject. Break large projects into small steps — and start with step...

• Most of us look at emails every 3 - 5 minutes. Instead, look every hour or two, and then only at subject matter and sender. 
• Answer important emails immediately instead of flagging them.
• Managing incoming emails needs to be paired with other, more big-picture habits. 

Age and seniority highly correlate with personal productivity.