How To Increase Productivity
ByToday, I want to start this post with a question to you.
Do you sometimes feel like your NOT getting enough work done in your 8 hour work day?
It’s not uncommon for people to get distracted during the day or somehow drift off into a tangent only to find out by the end of the day that you have only managed to get in 3-4 hours of solid work done… but what happened to the rest of the day?
I know this only to well…
So what can be done about it? How can you go back to having a full productive 8 hour work day?
Here’s something that will help with that.
Limit yourself to working just 3 hours per day at first, with that time limit you set yourself you should focus harder on the things you’ll want to get done in that condensed time period. Do that for a few days… and by the end of the third day I can guarantee you’ll start working harder, and being more focused on the tasks you really want to get finished for the day.
Stick to it for a few day’s then give yourself more time as you start becoming more productive in those condensed time periods, move up then to 5 hours per day for a few days, again you work harder and more productively to get those tasks accomplished in that 5 hour time period.
Keep doing this until you get back up to 8 hour’s or however long your working day is and you’ll find that you’ll end up increasing your productivity so all of your working day will be like that first 3 hours of pure productive focused work flow.
Try it and see if it helps! 
Until next time
Dan
3 Comments
March 28th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
That’s a great tip. Some university studies have shown that employee productivity went up in some European countries when many companies switched from 40 hours of work per week to 32 hours per week because the same amount of work had to be done but in less time.
March 28th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Exactly James…
Seems to work well!
Dan
July 9th, 2011 at 11:50 pm
You are definitely right Dan.
If you set yourself a specific list of tasks you need to accomplish and slowly, over time, reduce the amount of time you have available to accomplish it, you will indeed get faster, to accomodate your new schedule.
Once you have mastered that set of tasks, you can add a new task into the mix, giving yourself a certain amount of ‘new’ extra time to accomplish it, then start to finetune how you complete that task as well.
Keep the tips coming,
Xavier