Increasing Productivity

Hi everyone,

I hope all is well in your section of the world, despite our current pandemic happening.

So what’s the difference between being busy and productive?

Everyone can keep themselves busy, but during the hustle and bustle of being busy are you also being productive at the same time? The two are different busy can mean anything you are doing to occupy your time: watching TV all day keeps you busy but in general, it does nothing for your productivity.

The same goes for walking your dog keeps you busy but if not multitasked with something else it's not very productive for your business. Fortunately, these bad habits of keeping busy and not being productive can be changed quite easily.

Today I wanted to discuss productivity with you and am wondering just how many of you think you’re being productive on a daily basis but in reality, is just wishful thinking while wasting your precious time away.

Many individuals are learning how to become more productive in their daily routines which in turn are increasing their website’s potential of becoming more profitable along with gaining more insight to efficiently spend their time.

If you were given the opportunity to increase your productivity by 100% in just one single day, would you jump on the chance? Most of us would without any hesitation.

What if I were able to tell you one single thing that most of us do not currently do, but it could drastically increase your daily productivity.

Would you do it?

And if so, for how long?

Daily habits are a great thing if they don’t waste your time. For example how many times do you look at your emails during the typical day at home working and plugging away on your websites? Once? Twice? Or maybe even ten times a day!

EMAILAHOLIC BEWARE

According to a recent study of over 200 billionaires, millionaires, Olympic athletes, and famous sports stars - Productive people check their emails just twice daily: once in the morning and once prior to ending the day. The reason is checking emails if not scheduled into your daily routine can become very time consuming.

Furthermore, when scheduled or planned into the daily routine they tend to be quickly assessed or read for importance then either saved or deleted at a much more efficient rate in turn, taking less overall time during the day to deal with, as a whole.

How many of you own a tablet or a smartphone?

Most productive people own both and use them throughout the day to take notes and jot down ideas as they think of them. You may be wondering how exactly this improves their productivity.

Well, I hope you at least thought about that question!

Why?

Because they only think about the idea once then jot it down on either their tablet, if it is a more detailed idea; but if it’s a simple idea, they record a quick message about the idea on their smartphone. That way they will not be wasting time thinking about the idea all day. They know they have the idea stored safely away and can now concentrate on other problems or ideas: being much more productive on a daily basis.

The average person originally thinks of an idea and then continues to think about it off and on throughout the entire day wasting more time thinking about the same idea than if they acted on it immediately or implemented the idea right then and there.

Productive people jot it down or store it electronically somehow so that it frees up their thoughts for other ideas, thusly reducing the time spent thinking about a single idea versus thinking up many ideas within the same time frame. Then at the end of the day or week, they spend an allotted scheduled amount of time reflecting on all the ideas.

TIME MANAGEMENT

Yet another great concept that productive people do, is extreme time management. Most business leaders that I know use time management skills, but often only break their time down into 15 minutes increments and this may work great for some. However, productive people break their time down to the minute.

Moreover, they schedule every aspect of their lives within their daily calendar, not the 30-day view of their calendar but the minute-by-minute view and they schedule everything including and down to time spent on daily hygiene. To many, this may seem like a person suffering from an obsessive-compulsive personality or a control freak but in reality, it is an enormous means of getting a grasp on lost time throughout each day.

Remember we only have 1440 Minutes

in a day let’s not waste 100 of them trying to think of ways to better manage our time.

If you have a 20-minute drive to the grocery store; why not spend it listening to motivational or inspirational speeches. While sitting at the doctor’s office; why not read the latest article by Russell Bronson about his new and advanced sales funnels that are changing the way of doing digital marketing.

The above, are just two examples of how you can increase your productivity in a single day’s time (pun intended) :-) Many entrepreneurs can’t recognize when they are wasting their time or spending it efficiently.

"Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time." - Jim Rohn.

There ago, it’s not so much as learning how to manage our time better; but to determine if what we are doing is increasing our productivity and/or when we are performing tasks that are truly holding our productivity back and wasting our time.

By implementing extreme time management control of our minutes and not hours or other increments we can come to appreciate each minute we utilize toward our success. Eventually, after an assessment of our time management skills, we can eliminate time wasters from our daily schedules.

Try scheduling every minute of every day for one week and see if this works for you as well!

What do you think are the major time wasters for most entrepreneurs?

1. Day Dreaming

2. Fail to Plan or schedule daily tasks

3. Waiting on things to happen

4. To Available to others

5. Worrying or self-doubt

Let’s see how big of a list we can create!

Got more to add to this list?

There are plenty of time wasters that I intentionally left off so that others can contribute through efficient comments. So, please by all means leave a comment so that others can learn what is and is not contributing to their daily productivity.

The more answers that are listed through comments the more everyone learns how to become more productive in their daily routines!