Improve Your Productivity

Emails, phone calls, meetings, school holidays there seems to be an endless stream of distractions nowadays. Business owners and managers are also aware of the constant distractions of staff, accounts and expenses, compliance and other things that add up to a normal busy day.

A common concern that I observe (and occasionally suffer from) is that we are so busy being busy, we don’t achieve anything at all!

I love reading and some of my recent reads that assist with productivity include:

Work Smarter Live better – Cyril Peupion

Scared Stupid and Selfish – Dan Gregory and Keiran Flanagan

Seven Habits of Highly Effective People – Steven Covey

I also subscribe to this blog for tips and reminders for being more productive- www.paulminors.com

And recently at our GPS Wealth 2016 conference I listened to Michael McQueen sprout infinite wisdom on being more productive and building momentum see - michaelmcqueen.net

What I have learned so far is it’s important to have Processes to ensure your daily tasks run efficiently.

Write a daily To Do List (it feels very satisfying to tick off items!)

Block time in your diary for certain activities to ensure you are getting things done (tackling that to do list). Author of the 4 hour work week – Tim Ferris also states that you should block out an extra 50% for these tasks as we underestimate how long it takes to complete a task.

Turn off Email notifications – this was a hard one for me as I am often waiting on things from you (you know, those dreaded forms that need signing) but I have found that I am able to focus on the task I need to complete which has increased my level of productivity enormously!
I hope these tips and tools will also be able to assist you to complete the important tasks in your life!

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