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How to be more productive?

Are you one of the those who wants to do something you really like but feel that you are too busy and don’t have enough time. Do you feel that only if there were 48 hours in a day? Guess what you are not alone. These days always ON and connected world has helped us to peek into someone’s life on the other side of the world but has left no time for our own life.

So how do you find the time?

Step 1: Ask yourself: Are you productive or just active?
Every task you do, think about the value it is generating. Are you just doing the task to keep yourself busy? Could you delegate the task? Does the task really need to be done? Bin any task that is not adding value and help you achieve your goals.
Step 2: Do only the important but not urgent tasks
Divide the tasks into four quadrants along axis of important and urgent. Do the task while they are important but not urgent. Ignore the tasks that are not important and not urgent.
Step 3: Learn to ignore
Ignore any information that is not useful. Would binge watching 60 hours of Games of Thrones help you achieve your goals. Are you really missing out on anything if you can’t participate in a conversation after 3 pints of beer in a pub? Not really.
Step 4: Don’t multitask
Lets accept it : men are bad at this. So just stop.
Step 5: Go on a Gadget diet
Really. Try out leaving your phone in your bedroom while you are trying to finish your goals. All of sudden now you will find extra few hours in a day. Constantly checking our phones is such an endemic problem that now Apple has introduced this as a feature.
That’s it. Give these steps a go and share a comment if any of these helped you to find even 1 extra hour in your day and be more productive!!!
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