Increase Your Productivity to Succeed Exponentially

How to increase productivity in business, How to improve your life by being more productive.

Productivity in our life, comes from developing few sets of habits in our mental-emotional-physical process.

Productivity is really a mindset thing. And if you have productive habits, you would be contented in your inner-self, that would lead to everything that we want and need in life, like success, happiness, growth, leadership etc.

Let us first understand what real productivity is

1. You are productive when you are on everyday basis focused on and take actions to develop yourself

2. You are productive when you are focused on excellence rather than perfectionism

3. You are productive when you help develop people around you, your team, your family members

4. Productivity is not about glamorous outcomes, it is rather very slow, it takes time to be seen. Like in if you are applying the lean manufacturing concept of identifying, minimizing or eliminating wastages as a culture, thought process or habit OR if you are focused on 6 sigma concepts of continuous improvement and qualitative outputs — you will find initially actually the productivity parameters dip. But if you drive it for long and can manage to apply in everyday activities, you would find the law of compounding working for you

5. You are productive when you are engaged in the quadrant 2 of urgent-important matrix by most of the time doing those activities, what is important but not urgent

6. You are productive, when you manage to take actions on the most important ones among the important ones

7. You are productive, when you are focused on sustainable, long term impact and not short-term gains

8. You are productive when you have crystal clear priorities of, what you want, and can differentiate between — having focus on End-values rather than means-values

9. You are productive, when you surround yourself with people who are smarter, more knowledgeable, more experienced and more qualified people than yourself

10. You are productive when you can effectively say no can move away from people, who pull you down

11. You are productive when you are balance between the long-term actions towards your passions and the current demand

12. You are productive when you focus on the most important person, that is yourself, by taking very good care of yourself [it is not about being selfish — although it may sound like that to some people]

13. You are productive, when you seek help, when you can’t do something

14. You are productive, when you don’t hide your mistakes and weaknesses, but identify, accept and work on them to improve yourself emotionally, mentally, physically

15. You are productive, when you have crystal clear values and you stand-up for them

16. You are productive when your balance between planning and implementation and improvising, till you achieve your objectives

17. You are productive, when you take regular breaks and spend time with yourself

18. You are productive when you love yourself unconditionally

19. Real Productivity is about being involved in meaningful, worthwhile activities, while having fun doing them

Improving your life is not about a big leap or one big gesture. Instead, they are small-small incremental improvement, as a matter of nature.

When you are overloaded and overwhelmed with your job responsibilities, your family responsibilities and other obligations, exceptionally few even think about self-improvement, self-development and growth.

Random Productivity Improvement Tips — Many those I use

[Choose, what is easy for you and you can apply and make them the part of your habit]

1. Figure out your two phases of peak energy hours in a day

2. Work in Intervals

3. Instead of thinking, how much you have to do — think — I need to do these What is the best way for me to get everything done and schedule them as per the priorities

4. If you are stressed, ask yourself, what is causing the stress, What needs to change so that I manage this situation better, What can I do to improve this, considering the current circumstances

5. Successful people aren’t luckier than most people, But they try more things, and fail more, But the difference between average and productive people is that average people are unnerved by failure and give up when they fail

6. Create habits you can stick to

7. Rethink about your to-do list and deleting the unnecessary tasks by Following the Pareto Principal or 80/20 rule

8. Take more breaks

9. Use your morning to focus on yourself — Just calm reflections within self — unless you are foggy and totally feeling fatigued[then you need other cure first]

10. Tackle your challenging tasks when you are feeling totally in your elements

11. Stop multi-tasking

12. Define what being Productive means to you

13. Identify what habits are your biggest obstacles & which ones makes you a winner

14. Find out what are your mental, physical, emotional binders and are stopping you from achieving your potential, it could be your submissiveness or inability to say no or fear of something. Create a plan on overcoming these, seek help if you are unable to work on them yourself. Read my blog on these

15. When Gain momentum, keep going till you can

16. Expect challenges, problems and other obstacles blocking you in your way towards your big picture & then plan on how will you tackle them

17. Use the latest technology only for boosting your Productivity

18. Know When to Just Say No, identify what is negotiable and what is not, be assertive

19. Stop Trying to Do it All by yourself, create systems, processes and delegate