Thursday, June 23, 2016

How to increase productivity

Disclaimer: Below are few points which I have experienced and there is no guarantee that this will work for you too.

1. Don't waste time. Stop wasting time in non-productive activities like sitting doing nothing, watching TV, social media, etc. Time is the most precious thing anyone can have, you can never get back the current moment but you can always watch what you are watching on TV anytime you want. In my experience TV is an addictive thing just like any other drug/tea/coffee/social media. Your brain become use to it and when you deprive your brain TV it will start craving for it. Gradually this craving will stop and you will get extra 2 hours every day.

2. Have a tangible end targets: Before doing anything, first decide your target for example if you run a company, your target might be to increase the revenue of company, so think how this task will help achieving this target. Having a tangible target will help you in many ways like dividing into sub-tasks, having checkpoints, etc. Have smaller targets like daily/weekly targets. Keep track of targets and missed targets.

3. Believe in your task: believing in what you are doing is very important, this will help you give your 100%.

4. Your work will always be mix of difficult/easy/boring/interesting. People generally finish easy and interesting work very fast while delays difficult and boring work, so eventually you will develop habit of procrastination and your productivity will decrease many folds. One way to fix this by doing important and urgent works before even touching easy and interesting work.

5. Cycle of interest: specially, if you are loosing interest in work. I believe there is a cycle of interest, if you start taking interest in work, work will automatically become more interesting and vise versa. If you stop taking interest in work, even interesting work will become boring and burden.

6. Do things properly: Your work is your signature. Don't do work just for the sake of doing work, do it so the final target will be achieved. Take pride in your work. Every work is important, there is nothing less important work.

7. Fire: Always have a fire for whatever you are doing. Try not to think about other things while doing something. One way to achieve it by surround yourself with like minded people, do things in team in healthy environment.

8. finish what you have started : General tendency of people is to start things and leave it in between without finishing it with it start getting boring or difficult. Unfinished stuff is same is not started. This can be fixed if you don't take any other task before finishing current task.

please feel free to add more points in comments which you have experienced which could be the potential reason to reduced productivity.