Maximise Your Time
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Maximise Your Time
With exam season in swing across most universities, and the mid-financial-year end plaguing most professionals, I’d thought it apt to summarise Filtered’s 100 most useful productivity tips to make the most use of your time.
Time-Boxing
”Assign a fixed period of time to a task, schedule it and stick to it”Prioritise
”List out the tasks you have and, whether it’s a score out of 10 or colour coding, do it and stick to it”2-Minute Rule
”If a task can be done in less than 2 minutes… just do it”Start Earlier
”High performers are often also early risers”Productivity Tools
”There are a whole host of apps, tools and programs out there that can make your life easier and more efficient, whether it be syncing your social media posts or reducing blue light from your screen at night to improve sleep quality”Plan Ahead
”At the beginning of each week, work out the non-negotiables then schedule the remaining tasks around them”Break Tasks Down
”Start with writing down the first thing you need to do, however basic”8020 Rule
”80% of results come from 20% of causes… target the 20% of tasks and actions that will get you 80% of your results”Batch Similar Tasks
”Your brain can more easily focus on something specific, and has less adjusting to do as you move from one thing to the next”Effective Above Efficient
”Efficiency allows you to do something quickly and well, but effectiveness determines what you choose to do in the first place and how well you do it”Delegate
”Only do the work that only you can, and delegate the rest wherever possible”Time Yourself
”Setting yourself time limits on your tasks, and then timing yourself while doing them, will inject a sense of urgency”Make A Public Commitment
”Simply telling someone else about a task makes you more likely to do it”Productive Procrastination
”Upgrade your procrastination time to get non-work related tasks done”Your Biological Prime Time
”We are most alert and productive within the first few hours of waking”Find Time For Yourself
”Downtime [for] doing nothing, is essential for idea generation”Just Start
”Don’t sit around and wait for great things to happen to you!”Break Bad Habits
”The overwhelming majority of things that prevent us from being productive are just a result of bad habits”Systemise
”Anything that takes the effort and decision-making out of small, everyday tasks will pay off huge dividends over time”Use Your Commute
”Harness this time to learn, read, work, meditate”Do Not Do To-Do Lists
”To-do lists are essential in that they clarify what needs doing, but they can make us feel like we’re doing something useful when it’s really little more than procrastination disguised as productivity”Make Work Fun Again
”Probably the number one motivator for any activity is the amount of fun we have doing it”Schedule “Stress” Time
”While we cannot completely avoid stress, we can stay in control… Schedule breaks into your calendar by time blocking”Old-School Alarm Clocks
”The last thing you want to do as soon as you wake up is to start idly scrolling through your smartphone”
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