How to Make Your Day More Productive

It doesn't need to explain why we are busy all day long. We are to do lot of works everyday. We don't have much time for relaxing, for recreation. We are human. We can't work all day long like machine. But we have to finish all the tasks in our hand. If the situation continues, we'll be stuck at some point. What should we do?

Sound familiar?

One effective way to solve this problem is to make your day more productive.

Below I discussed few methods to make your day more productive. These work for me well. Try if those work for you.

How to Make Your Day More Productive

 

Begin the day with goal in mind: Why you need to be productive? The answer is simple - to achieve goal.

When I was discussing this issue with one of my colleague, he replied, we do a day job, we don't have any goal there, why do we need to be productive?

Why not?

We are working to achieve company's goal and thus our own goal. If you help to achieve company's goal, company will give you incentives, will increase your salary. Ultimately, you are building your career. So, please don't think, why we you need to be productive in a day job. Simple.

Start your day with a To-Do list: Make a list of everything - what you should do today. Sort out important tasks. Don't take much time to make list. Because you have to update it several times for the day.

Start with most important task: Ok. You sorted out important tasks. Now start with most important task.

Update your list accordingly: After finishing your first important task of the day select next important task. And frequently update your list after completing every task.

Determine your best productive time: Not all are at best at same time in a day. Some can do more in the morning, some in afternoon and some in evening. Determine, in which time duration, you can be more productive. Try not to take rest at that time duration and do your most important task at that time.

Productivity is influenced by several things like healthy diet, adequate rest and being stress free. So think positive, have good food and take enough rest to jumpstart your next productive day.

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5 Tactics to Do Anything Successfully (from my point of view)

"Good start is half done"!

I always hear this here and there. I think you also do.

What is good start?

What will happen if the start isn't good?

And what about the bad start?

Can someone explain me above questions? Please.

No matter the start is good or bad, our ultimate purpose is to finish the task perfectly.
You'll find thousands of tactics to finish tasks. But those tactics don't describe how to handle mental pressure formed in the process of doing any big task.

From my point of view I outlined following 5 tactics to finish any task successfully.

1. Start small
2. Step Small
3. Form habits
4. Trial and Error
5. Focus

Start small: If you think the whole process of a big task, you will be stuck at beginning. Forget about the fear of failure. Forget about obstacles you'll face later.

Did Florence Griffith-Joyner, fastest women in the world in 100m sprinters, thought she will be fastest women when she started to learn walking? Even her first step was imperfect, unbalanced. Can you say her first step was good start? If she thought the whole process of becoming fastest women at beginning, I must say, she will be frustrated.

So, whatever your start, good or bed, just start. Many good things will happen when you start. This is the most difficult part of doing anything. Forget about the good start. That will hold you back.

Step small: Starting is difficult, so is finishing.
Lets take 100m sprinter for example.
Winning 100m sprinter is started with 1st step, then 2nd step, the 3rd, 4th.... Forget about the end line. Just do your best in every steps.
This is true in any small and big task. You just start with small. After finishing that, start 2nd small and do same up to end.

Form habits: Don't take your task as work. Take them as game. Then you'll enjoy your work.

One of the best way to treat your work as game, is to make a habit of doing that.

Trial and Error: They don't make any mistake who don't do anything.

So, forget about mistake or error. Do something, make mistake, and then try again.

Focus: Do focus whatever you do. Being focused on certain thing will bring best result for you. Leo babauta, one of my favourite writer, wrote a good article about "the magical power of focus".

I must say, don't worry about the bad start. Just start small, go ahead with small steps, make a habit of doing so, make mistake, focus on the things you do and successfully finish your task.