Being productive is crucial for achieving your goals and dreams.
Today I'm going to teach you 5 strategies to improve your
productivity at home. With so many
distractions at home such as social
media, shows, games and internet in general, it gets very hard to
be productive. After all who wouldn't
want to watch another episode of Game of Thrones or when the
last one ended on a cliffhanger. However, if you want to achieve
your dreams, some sacrifices will be required. So let's get started.
Number 1) The routine.
It's very important to make a good routine.
For example, if you're looking to make studying easier. You
could clean your desk before you study and watch your favourite tv
show or play your favourite video game as a reward at the end of
your study session. You could also start studying at a certain
time every day and study for a certain period of time
for this to be even more effective you could use the pomodoro technique
For those that do not know the Pomodoro technique implies that you
take 5-minute breaks for every 25 minutes of work. This 30-minute
session is called a Pomodoro and after you do four Pomodoros you
need to take a 15 to 30 minutes break. Now that we have covered
the routines let's go to strategy number 2) To do lists. People
often diminish the power of a to-do list, but writing down your
thoughts instead of having them float around your head whole day
helps a bucnh. Also, the satisfaction
of getting a task done and marking the checkbox as complete
can be a great motivator for some. I would also recommend making a
90-day plan where you write out all your goals for 3 months
why you want to achieve those goals
and how are you going to achieve them.
Break the goals into smaller steps that you can put into your daily to-do lists.
Number 3) Managing time. If you
spend a lot of time on the computer,
it's very easy to lose track of what you're actually doing.
But you don't want to track your every move online, fear not there
is a great app for that and it's called rescuetime. RescueTime
tracks all your usage on the computer
and labels it in several categories.
The 3 Biggest being,
Entertainment, Neutral and Productive.
By using Rescue time you can pinpoint what uses most of your
time and then avoid such source of entertainment. For example, if
youtube were to use 4 hours of your
time daily then you could try
lowering your time on youtube by 15
minutes each day. You could even use app to block you a website
after you spend a certain time on it.
I heard that StayFocusd is good for that but I have not used
it personally yet. I will put links in the
description for both rescuetime and stayfocusd.
Now let's go onto Number 4) Focusing on one thing at a time.
Not many of you know this, but
Multitasking is a myth. By doing multiple things at a time you
are actually doing one thing at a time but switching between them.
By constantly switching between 2 or more tasks you are losing time
and focus. What you should do instead is
focus on one thing at a time. It will help you get tasks
done much faster. Try it for yourself and compare the results.
Number 5) Take a break. In society
working hard is praised, but it's a bad practice. Brad Stulber and
Steve Magness in their book
Peak Performance heavily emphasize this idea.
To grow you should alternate periods of stress and rest. Tackle
just manageable challenges you should not feel fully in control
on purpose, then rest on purpose. Every so often you
should just take a walk and disconnect from your work. If you
tackle challenges that are just manageable, you will be able to
handle those challenges with ease
in the future. Thus going to harder
challenges which you could not
complete when you started. To recap.
In order to increase productivity
at home, you should do these things.
Make a routine, make a to-do list, manage your time
better, focus only on one thing at a time and take breaks. If you
apply these things to your daily life, you will surely be more productive.
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