"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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