"11 Proven Ways to Stay Focused That Increase Productivity"
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Productivity doesn’t happen by accident.
Do you ever think how amazing it would be to do everything you set out to do each day unproductive?
These 1 proven tools will help you stay focused and amp up your productivity so you can kill it every day.
1. Set daily goals
Keeping a to-do list is the simplest and easiest proven tool to ensure you stay focused and increase your productivity.
Set reasonable targets for each day.
2. First things first
What you really need to do is focus on the most important tasks first.
Take a moment to identify your Most Important Task (MIT).
By knocking out your biggest task, you’ll ensure that you’ll have a productive day no matter what.
3. Set deadlines and stick to them
Deadlines can be a great way to control procrastination, but self-imposed deadlines don’t work for true dawdlers.
Instead, hard deadlines that are evenly spaced out are most effective.
4. Keep tasks manageable
Sometimes less is more.
In order to up your productivity, you need to break big projects into manageable chunks. you can focus on one area or one subject at a time.
try breaking tasks down into smaller and smaller chunks, so You’ll avoid distractions.
5. Train your brain to do deep work
This is the ability to produce at your peak level for extended periods of time. It may sound easy, but we rarely do it.
You can start by setting aside a couple of hours each day during which you can completely focus on 1 task.
6. Put away your cell phone
By simply putting your phone away for periods of time, or at least turning off notifications, you’ll gain hours of productivity and focus.
7. Monotask
By now, most of us know that multitasking isn’t really a thing, and yet we still struggle to stop doing it.
Do yourself a favor and give monotasking a try.
Try looking at your calendar at the beginning of each week and assign yourself a specific focus each day.
8. Practice mindfulness
Practicing mindfulness meditation has been shown to increase the ability to focus and enhance learning and memory.
9. Know your body clock
We all have natural rhythms that influence our ability to focus and produce.
The key is to match your highest priority work to your most productive hours of the day.
Pay attention to your body clock.
10. Use the two-minute rule
If a task will take less than two minutes to complete, do it right away.
Don’t let these tiny tasks build-up for another time, and don’t add them to the bottom of your list.
Take two minutes and just do it.
11. Switch tasks
Have you ever been hard at work on a project, feeling totally focused, but after a while, you feel like you hit a wall? It’s like your brain just locked up.
It could be you’ve been focusing on one thing for too long, and now your brain needs a change of topic.
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Our days are so rushed and filled with distractions.
So how can we simplify our days?
These are the steps I followed, and I’ve found these to work really well:
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1. Know What’s Important.
take time to identify the most important things in your life (4-5 things), and then see what activities, tasks, projects, meeting and commitments fit in with that list.
2. Visualize Your Perfect Day.
It’s different for each person.
Take a minute to visualize what it means to you.
"6 Ways to Enhance Your Problem-Solving Skills Effectively"
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Have you ever thought of yourself as a problem solver?
I’m guessing not. But in reality, we are constantly solving problems. The better our problem-solving skills are, the easier our lives are.
You don’t have to be super smart to be a problem solver, you just need practice.👇
1. Focus on the Solution, Not the Problem
your brain can't find solutions if you focus on the problem.
Because when you focus on the problem, you’re effectively feeding negativity, which in turn activates negative emotions in the brain. These emotions block potential solutions.
"10 Different Ways to Practice Mindfulness In Our Daily Life"
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In this fast-moving external world, we have lost our inner connection. Every day is a struggle.
You are always running after something. But have you ever taken a simple walk in your inner kingdom?
This is the time to learning how to practice mindfulness.
1. Live in the Moment
Enjoy your present without connecting the events with your past & future. You don’t have to worry about anything because things unfold naturally.
Embrace the freshness of this moment. Mindfulness means being aware of what is happening in the present moment.