You can double your productivity

Many a time, when faced with challenges or tasks, we wish we could perform better than we are presently doing. This pressure sometime arises from an innermost feeling of emptiness or pressure from family, friends or your boss at work. Long story made short, what if I say you can make a difference. Here are six simple tips that can be of help to you. Enjoy!!

1. Think about solution(s) to the problem rather than complaining about it: Try to spend minimal percentage of your time complaining and maximum percentage of your time finding a solution. A lot of people do the complete opposite. 

2. Focus on the future; don’t dwell on mistakes of the past: Yes, you have made mistakes, and you might have regrets. But my friend, it’s over now and neither you nor anyone can correct your past. This is now. Keep your eyes on the opportunities of today and tomorrow. 

3. Communicate clearly – Avoid miscommunications: Be clear on the tasks you want to do, and in what order. If you are a boss, communicate clearly what you want to have done. It might be useful to have the people in your team repeat back what has been said; that way, everyone is sure that they have the same interpretation of what is to be done before they get started. While working, get continual feedback so you can re-adjust your plans if necessary. 

4. Keep at it until it’s done: When you start a task, you will be more efficient and be better at it. However, if you jump around between lots of half-finished tasks you will lose focus every time you start working at it again. Keeping at a task until it’s completed can boost your sense of self-esteem and, over time, strengthen your self-discipline.

5. Don’t beat yourself up: It’s normal to feel bad sometimes. But greater than that, it’s useful to take with you lessons learned from your mistakes so you don’t keep repeating them over and over. But if you keep beating yourself up after those initial bad feelings; you will keep feeling like crap for no good reason and the people around you will also be affected in a negative way. 

6. Take a break: You won’t be effective if you don’t take a relaxing break once in a while. If you keep on pushing and pushing through the work, you will eventually lose your focus; start to underperform; make mistakes and feel stressed out all the time. Just taking a break and then returning can make the work feel a whole lot easier than it did just 10 minutes ago. 

So glad you are here, were the tips helpful? It will be a pleasure to hear your contributions. Don’t leave without dropping a comment. Enjoy the rest of your day.