Work Smarter Not Harder: 18 Productivity Tips That Boost Your Work Day Performance

by Timo Kiander

To have a solid foundation for personal productivity, the following blocks must be in place: • Proper mindset • Physical activity • Optimum nutrition • Enough sleep

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• Meditate • Read a self-help book • Exercise • Write • Build your business

One thing that can be a great factor in deciding how you spend your time in the mornings is to know the goal you are trying to reach. Then, dedicate most of your early morning hours to this activity.

In other words, after working for 52 minutes, the people took a 17-minute break. This result was based on the analysis of the top 10% most productive employees.

Then, implement a distraction list habit in your daily work. The distraction list is nothing more than just a piece of paper that sits on your desk. Then, whenever you come across a new idea or thought that you want to remember later on, just write it down.

write down three important tasks for the next day and prioritize them to the beginning of the work day. Also, add some lower-priority tasks to your list too, to make sure you make progress on every level (not just on those important tasks).

First, make sure to document your work steps with enough detail so that the other person can actually complete a task with success.

Then, make sure to define the deadline for the delegated task, especially if you need it back within a certain time frame.

Instead of saying that you want the job completed sometime next week, define an explicit deadline, like by next Thursday at 1pm. The next step is to make the delegation process an active one. In other words, don’t just ask a person to do a task and assume it’s getting done, only to realize that you haven’t heard anything from this person in ages. Instead, have a regular follow-up on your task (by phone or by e-mail), so that things move along smoothly.

In other words, if you take care of the most challenging task first thing in the morning, the rest of the day will be much smoother.

According to Atul Gawande, the author of The Checklist Manifesto, there are two types of checklists and you’ll have to decide first which one to use, before creating your list: 1. READ-DO checklists 2. DO-CONFIRM checklists In the case of READ-DO, the checklist acts like a recipe. First, you read the item on the list, then you act according to the item and then you move on to the next item. The DO-CONFIRM checklist is a bit different. In this case, you do a task from your own memory (or from experience) and then at some point you consult your checklist to make sure that you did everything required.