17 hours of unproductiveness weekly
People work an average of 45 hours a week; they consider about 17 of those hours to be unproductive.
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- Manage your moods: If you start the day calm it's easy to get the right things done and focus.
- Don't check email in the morning.
- Before you try to do it faster, ask whether it should be done at all.
- Focus is nothing more than eliminating distractions.
- Have a personal system; most productive people have a routine.
- Define your goals for the day the night before.
If you check your emails first thing in the morning, **you're setting yourself up to react.
You're not planning your day and prioritizing, you're giving your best hours to someone else's goals, not yours.
Want to be more productive? Don't ask how to make something more efficient until after you've asked "Do I need to do this at all?"
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Starting your day on a high note sets the tone for the rest of your day (or even week).
Think about the one thing that boosts your mood in the morning and incorporate it into your routine. Whatever it is, stick to it as that’ll give you a clear mind and set you up for a productive day.
- Something you do on a regular basis that increases your odds of success regardless of the immediate outcome.
- A collection of goals, tools, habits, and methods is not the same as a purposeful system.
- A working system allows you to reduce your tasks to a manageable set of inputs and outputs, and establish some predictability.
Multitasking and directing your energy to unimportant tasks and activities will overwhelm and prevent you from being productive.
Focus on your 3 to 5 most urgent tasks on your to-do-list. Focus on one task at a time.
At least one of your Most Important Tasks should be related to your goals.
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