Productivity Hacks: How to do less and get better results

by David Vellacott

Leave your desk in the evening, afternoon or whenever you leave it with enough vim, vigor and MOMENTUM to go back the next day. If you use up all your energy and ideas in the one sitting it will take so much willpower to go back to the desk tomorrow that it will become harder and harder each day.

Choose the right goal for right now. Chunk it is into smaller sizes - Make sure it is big enough to motivate but small enough to complete within 12 weeks. Take consistent daily action to make it happen Review and renew commitment to it weekly Once complete, pick the next thing you will concentrate on for 12 weeks.

I have a pensive pad for those moments when I am in the middle of writing something or in the flow of some creative activity and something utterly random floats across my brain. To my right-hand side (I am right handed) is a notepad and pen. This is for anything to be noted down.