How to Improve Productivity




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Summary: <h1 style="font-size: 36px;"><span style=""><span style="color: #0957a2;"><a href="http://investingtime.gr8.com">Want a free program to help you achieve more by doing less? Check it out now!</a></span></span></h1><br> <h1 style="font-size: 36px;"><span style=""><span style="color: #0957a2;">How to Improve Productivity</span></span></h1><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">If you want to know how to improve productivity a simple way is to use your diary as a productivity tool.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Scheduling time strategically and grouping activities together is a great way to become more efficient and to get more done.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">A simple way to do this is to utilise your diary and plan days when you are in your office and days when you are out (or half days if this works better for you).</span></p><br> <div class="cke_widget_wrapper cke_widget_block cke_image_nocaption cke_widget_selected"> <br> <div class="align-center cke_widget_element"><span class="cke_image_resizer_wrapper" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="cke_image_px_indicator">​</span><span class="cke_image_resizer" title="Click and drag to resize">​</span></span></div> <br> </div><br> <p><span style="color: #0957a2; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">There are two main advantages to scheduling your diary in this way;</span></span></p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;">Firstly you set yourself up for being focussed on the days when you are working from your office (or home office).</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Simply knowing that you are going to be there enables you to schedule in some of the important work you want to focus on and knowing that you have a half day or day to focus will help you settle down and make progress. You will naturally start becoming more productive.</span></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;">Secondly, scheduling being out of the office for a day or half a day in one go means you are not having to switch your thinking from focussed to listening. </span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You can relax and pay attention to whoever you are with because you know you have some focus time coming up to work on the things most important to you. This will help you be more productive.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This technique sounds so simple, and perhaps obvious, that it may not even sound like a technique.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Don’t let that put you off trying it. This technique is very effective because it helps your mind shift to where it needs to be more quickly and easily.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The most difficult thing about using this time management tool is the discipline of arranging your time in this way.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="inherit-font-size"> </span>There will often be pressure to try and squeeze meetings and activities in when you plan to be in your office.</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">When this happens you need to make a decision if the benefit of what you are being asked to do is worth changing?</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Can you move your focus/office working time to elsewhere in the week?</span></p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Whatever you do try not to lose your office/focus time completely. Moving it around now and again is fine and of course it doesn’t have to be the same time each week.</span></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 12pt;">Think of it as protected focussed working space and time.</span></p><br> <p> </p><br> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">To make this technique easier to use start slowly and build up.</span></p>