Top 3 tips I am using to boost productivity

January 26th, 2009 | Posted in productivity

Everyone has his own ways to boost productivity. For me, the most frequently used 3 tips are:

1 list to-do things and sub-things
   
Once making clear our desires, it is relatively easy to list big stones every day. There is no need to complete all the things. For me, it is a lovely day too if I can step on the way to my desires.

I usually make the TO-Do list in the morning just after I wake up and appreciation process. Generally speaking, in the appreciation process, I will mentally appreciate my desires and related people and things. This is also a process of recalling my desires.

After the process, I first list 2 or 3 things to do on my desires and make positive affirmation for them. After I have breakfast, I will list extra 3 things and begin the process of sub-to-do list making.

It is interesting to make sub-to-do list using imindmap. About sub-to-do list, StevePavallia has written a excellent post explaining it. If you don’t know about imindmap, you can get information here.

I always take the to-do list and sub-to-do list making as parts of inspired actions.

2 focus and keep simplify

I will try to only focus on one thing in the list at a time once beginning work. Usually I use 3 sub-tips to keep simplify:

  • Clean my office desk;

        Usually I only have a computer, a notebook and a ball-pen on the desk.

  • Clean my computer desktop

        I don’t like drop too much shortcuts on the desktop. instead, I try to keep as few as possible of them.

        as to the wallpaper, I usually use my self made affirmation picture as the background. It is simple but informative for me.

  • Reduce the routines that run concurrently

        To do this is not because I have not enough ram to run. I only run necessary applications concurrently.  

3 record progress

Have you once enjoyed the feeling of crossing of completed tasks?
I really like that feeling.

It is a virtuous cycle. I cross off one task, and then the left tasks get less. The less tasks left, the more focus I become.

After I beginning to use the law of attraction, I spend more time on affirmation and creative visualization before beginning of tasks. The biggest income for me to do these is I usually get some inspired ideas to complete my tasks in the list.

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