In marketing and entrepreneurship blogs we usually read an entry that is repeated season after season: the so-called tips or maxims to achieve the desired productivity. These tips, which we can see even by legendary entrepreneurs on their own sites or on Medium, sometimes they do not consider the hustle in which several are living.
That is, if you read "get up at 5AM and start a journal»Or« meditate in a break »you may not feel as identified by your particular situations as having to get up at 5AM but to go a long way to the workplace or not being able to meditate or anything like that because you have home office with the children and other family members demanding your attention.
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That is why at Webirix we search and write 9 points for a list with productivity tips that you can apply from tomorrow and even if you do just one, you will see this aspect of your life improved.
(These tips were retrieved from Talent Street, who were based on the theories of Paul Rulkens (the philosopher we talked about a few days ago) and Robert Pozen, another recognized author on the topic).
We started!
1. Don't be perfectionists
You don't need to be a California billionaire or a Microsoft engineer to understand this. We must accept that it does not exist and is practically unattainable, being rather a goal that takes us away from something more important: culminate, deliver and operate the project we are working on.
How they say on Facebook: Done is better than perfect. Better.
2. Be strategic
Here also comes a lifetime of experience from various experts on the subject, not just Rulkens and Pozen. For example, is it necessary to take each and every one of the clients who come to our virtual doors? in an ideal world, perhaps, because of that profit is never enough. The reality is that customers are often so different that eIt is highly probable that someone has a need that exceeds the economic and / or prestige benefits.
In other cases, we can learn that there are extremely difficult clients, and that the time of deal with your demands or requests of changes does not correspond to what they agreed to pay.
This not only applies to clients, but as - for example, bosses. Must think what tasks are worth delegating (and pay for that) to dedicate to issues that leave more, from something that we can only do ourselves and that is better paid, or quality time for the family.
3. Get organized as you understand, but do it now.
There are those who email themselves. There are those who have a bullet journal because they have the time. There are even people who fill their organizers.
How you understand, find and adopt a way to organize yourself. Never leave her. If you have the privilege, use human capital for that. Find your files, contacts, projects in a simple way according to your logic of thought.
Personally, I don't have folders or use labels but I use Gmail and Windows search too Because of the way I organize myself, although I am a disaster with the schedule pending so I rely on Siri to remind me of what is pending in the day.
4. The 10 minute rule
Some even wear it within 5 minutes. If you have 10 lost minutes, such as a line for the ATM, take the opportunity to answer emails from your cell phone, search for references on Google that you will need later or even call a friend or relative with whom you never contact because you do not have time.
See it also like this: That email that has just arrived and will bring you a benefit, can you answer it in less than 5 minutes? do it!
5. Make Meetings Count
In post-pandemic times we are all somewhat dizzy of the Zoom and Google Meet, so the initial excitement of having meetings faded more than it was in common offices with junctitis. This moment Zen it can be used to make subsequent meetings productive.
In Webirix we have previously written the tricks to have more productive meetings Y how to have a successful minute.
6. The multitask is father, with intelligence
This point is essential if you are a hustler and you carry several jobs or projects at the same time. The temptation to solve task A, in microbreaks of task B is too great but we must complement it according to our very personal way of organization.
Example: It might be a bad idea to try to write a report in the middle of a render from a video or while another file is loading. You are not on a 100% topic and both require your attention!
A good idea: Do an almost mechanical and instinctual task, such as - if you were a designer - make a utilitarian design or organize your files, while fulfilling another goal such as listening to a briefing by Zoom or learning something new in a podcast.
(Quite the opposite would be the madness of trying to write a report while listening to a podcast, can you imagine the mistakes?).
7. Do the hateful
Do you locate that task that you do not want to do? Sure you will achieve ten other things before finishing it, but it does not make you very productive to always put off the same thing until the last.
Do you remember that task? Do it right now!
8. Set routines on the essentials
Understand eating, sleeping, dressing. If you prepare your clothes the day before and are organized, you will not waste time in the morning digging until you find the right outfit ideal. If on Sunday you think about your menus for the week, and you are realistic in your culinary needs (if you don't have time, it is not unreasonable to eat simple daily) you will save a lot of time.
9. The important thing is everything
There are important things and urgent things. Write down priorities for your to-dos. Let's be dramatic: you have 10 tasks for today and the time is counted. You may not be able to finish 10 o'clock.
It's time to prioritize!
Of the 10 tasks, you can identify 3 that are life-threatening for your company, while the other 7 will have minor effects if they are not completed. It is better to save the day with 3 compliments, than to focus on - let's say - 5 just as urgent but never that important.
And yes, there are urgent things of no importance.
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