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1. REGULAR REST AND SLEEP The last of the eight principles of health is enough rest and sleep.
2. Nourish Yourself with Healthy Foods and Beverages
3. Exercise Regularly
4. Reduce Distractions
5. Organize Your Workspace
6. Prioritize Your Tasks
7. Take Regular Breaks
8. Invest in Productivity Tools
1. Get Enough Sleep and Rest
Sufficient sleep and rest enable human beings to have the energy, concentration, and enthusiasm to work throughout the day. Ensure that they get enough sleep, 7-9 hours each day. For instance, if one feels overwhelmed or lazy in the day, he/she can take a power nap of about 20 minutes. Try to plan your day and also organize your time so that you were able to do most of your work when you are most fresh and rested.
2. Eat and Drink to Energize Your Body
Food and beverages you take have a great impact on the energy, thoughts and productivity you display. It is advised to have breakfast that can provide proteins, carbohydrates and fats in the breakfast to have energy all through the day. Drink water throughout the day and avoid caffeine and sweets that will make you sluggish later on. Replace unhealthy snacks with those that contain high protein, fiber and nutrients to avoid distraction by hunger. The best ones are fruits, nuts, yogurt and vegetables.
3. Exercise Regularly
Exercising is an effective tool that can be used to enhance concentration, wakefulness, and desire to work. Engage in at least 30 minutes of moderate intensity exercise, preferably 3-4 times a week. This could be a brisk walk, cycling, weight training, or following an exercise video from a preferred instructor on the internet. An example, when the body is in motion, more oxygen gets to the brain and at the same time, produce endorphins, which help in improving the moods and reducing stress. Remaining physically active will help keep your energy levels high for all the tasks you will be undertaking throughout the day.
4. Reduce Distractions
From the cell phones and attractive people to the noisy employees and colleagues, one can be assured that there are ever distractions in his/her day. Make sure you avoid getting distracted as much as possible by doing it before it happens. Turn off notifications on devices, minimize or close additional browser tabs and other unnecessary applications for the current task. If you want to concentrate, then get a place where there is no noise or use earphones if there is any noise around. Set this with people in your environment to ensure that they know when you are not willing to discuss some issues or attend some meetings other than the scheduled time. The less pulled away you get the deeper you will be able to focus.
5. Organize Your Workspace
Physical clutter in the workplace causes mental clutter which is very unproductive to the overall achievement of organizational goals. Ensure that your desk and computer files are clean and arranged in a manner that will facilitate the achievement of the tasks. For documents, provide stackable boxes or filing cabinets, always keep essentials within easy access, and clear out anything nonessential. On your computer, regularly empty and store your inboxes. Avoid having the desktop accessible full of documents rather arrange them in well labeled folders. Clutter is the enemy of productivity — a clean environment ensures that everything has its place and is as easy to find as possible, with no time lost to searching for items around the room.
6. Prioritize Your Tasks
It is much better to be busy in a more prioritized way, and trying to do everything at once is a fast way to become stressed and get very little done. Every day, spend 10 minutes to decide on the top 1–3 goals that are most critical to the success of your business. Be realistic due to the time limit, working hours, and other tasks that are currently being performed. Use something like a planner or a project management tool to ensure visibility of this list of tasks. Avoid cramming in other activities in the second priorities list until the high priorities are accomplished. This means there is a certain level of satisfaction when ticking small tasks off during the day. This targeted approach eradicates any interference and guarantees that all the energy is channeled towards making greater progress.
7. Take Regular Breaks
Instead of working non-stop for hours, which seems perfectly logical, breaks at intervals are actually beneficial for productivity. It is imperative that our brains are commanded to pay attention for a period not exceeding 90 minutes and in intervals. It is recommended that you limit yourself to taking 5-10 minute micro breaks every hour and set a timer to remind you. Take a break, get up off your chair and walk, stretch your muscles or take some deep breaths. Let your brain rest and relax to the maximum. This mental recharging maintains vigour and attention and you come back refreshed and more creatively motivated for higher productivity in short bursts to yield optimum output in the shortest time.
8. Invest in Productivity Tools
Employing helpful productivity apps and tools is always a good idea to remind about organisation, reduce work associated with routine tasks and increase the productivity. Whether it is through project collaboration tools like Trello or Asana for the managing of work flows or through automation to reduce manual entries within a particular workflow, there are tools that may align with how you work. Apps like Toggl can give visibility to help decide productivity issues that need fixing.Timer apps like Clockify allow timing focus cycles. OneTab is an example of a browser plugin that can help users deal with excessive tabs. The right tools increase efficiency which translates to producing more within the same amount of time and energy!
Applying even a few of the techniques described can work wonders and allow you to get a good sense of how to maximize productivity. Find out which of them are relevant to your current situation and issues you are facing. The key is consistency in making these behaviors habit, thus, broadening your capacity and shortening time to outcome!
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