Have you noticed that a lot of people are very busy but when they are asked what they were able to achieve at the end of the day, it turns out they haven’t achieved much at all. It is not because they do not want to achieve things or hit set goals but they end up doing too many things that aren’t relevant to the success they want to get. If you are one of this people who would always come back home or finish the day looking very exhausted but achieve little or nothing, then you have to read this post to the end.
Updating Social Media while Working
A lot of us wants to keep up to date with the happenings around the world and around our circles even while working. We are concerned about the next tweet that Donald Trump will be tweeting and we are concerned about the latest update your friend is willing to drop so at every sound of our phone, we are off to check what happened, who sent it and we are willing to gossip about it for at least 10 minutes. Think of it, if you spend 10 minutes of every 60 minutes looking at a social media account and then another 10 minutes enjoying gossips about it, then you are actually wasting time.
Continuously checking Emails
If you think your email box would be empty, then you have probably bot started submitting your emails to businesses, seminars or using it to create an account on websites. When you submit this mails to this websites and businesses, you are giving them the right to send you mails either for promotional purposes or to use for marketing in cases of other businesses, so you should expect that these businesses, companies and websites would send you mails but this things start to waste your time when you start checking the mails one after the other every time. You do not need to check all emails, you do not need to open all emails, some are as irrelevant as the word “spam” and others that are important could be check at a specific time. The notification of emails can be very distracting and the urge to keep checking it can be very pressing but the ability to set time for it would help you become more productive.
Outsource Work to improve productivity
You cannot be your P.A, your secretary, your accountant and your employee at the same time and expect to get a good result. Your result is a determinant of how many hours more you can create out of the 24 hours available. Your 24 remains 24 when you work all through without wasting any precious time but it becomes 48 hours when 2 people do the same thing for the same time to get a more productive result and so on. Be willing to delegate and be willing to share things that can be delegated.
Multi-Tasking is Less performance
The human’s brain like to focus on things and when they focus on those things, productivity follows but then we humans like to multi-task believing that we can get a lot done at once but this is not true, when you multi task, it takes longer time to get those things done and then more longer time to realize that those things aren’t done yet. Time waits for no one and multi-tasking can be one of the biggest killers of time.
To Do List action failure
Everyone has a skill in arranging TO-DO list, you can say what you want and when you want to get it done but the problem begins when you need to get them done. The ability to manage To-Do list and get the needed done is very important and can be very difficult. So writing a To-Do list doesn’t make your day a productive one, following them makes it productive.
Searching for Everything at all Time
You will never be productive if you have to search for everything you want because you do not keep them properly and do not remember where they are kept. Not knowing where your keys, your shirt, your phone, your everything are can take the better part of your day as you will be left with no other option but to look for them which will mean wasting time.
Conclusion
Other things can be a very bad time waster and killer of productivity, things like procrastination, unproductive meeting time, being keyed to doing what you are not willing to do, avoiding task just like procrastinating and so on. Be willing to start doing part or all of this, and we can start saying a good day, well productive.