Productivity Tips to Get You More Focused, Organised and Achieve more with less effort and time

Oct 3, 2022

8 min read

If you're reading this thank you for engaging in this edition and getting this far in. Thing is from competing internationally while simultaneously running a business in multiple locations with staff and completing my PhD, I know a little bit about productivity hacks and how to get the most out of your day, and how to streamline things and do things in the most efficient way. I realised pretty early on that things are like Parkinson's Law. If you give something an entire day to do it, it's going

I personally use the following things in my life and these are habits that helped me. It's not to say that it's the only way to do things, but it is to give you a little bit of introspection for what might work, for you some things to try out. And they're not in any particular order. Take what you need, implement what you need, leave what you do not.

1.Email subscriptions, your emails are like going off in a battlefield at just all times of the day and night. So if you are sitting on your computer allowing email notifications to pop up all the time, every time you look at it, it isn’t 2 mins you are losing: you lose 10-20 mins of productivity, potentially more! It takes a further 10 or more minutes to get back and focus on the task that you're trying to get back to. So this is something that's going to SAP quite a lot of your time if you're

2.Apps on your phone. So apps on your phone will insist that they will give you notifications as soon as the notification comes in, and be constantly scanning for these notifications as well. A way to do this is to absolutely remove all notifications except potentially one for your banking. You'd be surprised at how much easier it is in your life when it only allows an app to show badges and not sending you a notification from the app. Our aps are there for convenience and for productivity but t

3.Advertising blocker on my computer. I've got an extension that's called Adblock. And I get all of the ads blocked from websites.

4.I spend a bit of time timing and measuring the activities that I do during the day and I make it a bit of game so that I don't get to the end of the day and don't know what I've been spending my time on for the day I keep a very general list of what I've been doing and how much time it took up. You'd be surprised at how many rabbit holes that you end up down unless you pay conscious attention to what you're doing especially when you're on the worldwide web that has access to absolutely everyth

5.Religiously create a to-do list and I do this on my remarkable. Remarkable is the computer that I have bought that's like a tablet that has been designed not to be over the top sensory for people with ADHD so I can write on it. It's like pen and paper and also means that I can scribble out things and delete things as necessary because often my To-Do lists I don't like after I've ticked off a few things and I want to recreate a new list again. This helps to overcome that without me having lots

A lot of tasks I've managed to automate quite easily by using things like zaps, which is a computer software or by using things like Wellness Living which is like a booking system. It's got some automations in there as well for my fitness business, which is super helpful because I used to spend Sunday evenings and Sunday afternoons doing a whole bunch of things that were repeatable tasks that not even a human should be doing so I can outsource them to my virtual assistant to do so. This means th

6.Remove potential distractions that are in my environment. So I make my room as less clutter as possible, so that there's nothing that I can start getting distracted with. And also then I don't decide that it's time to clean the room that I'm working in. As opposed to actually working on some things. Each week, and each month, I will write down what my goals are and my To Do Lists can help me stay on track with that. But on top of that it can help me see whether I've kind of gotten off the beat

7.Another one that really worked for me was I reached out and got an appropriate mentor and coach for various stages along my journey. Now to do this, I needed to work out what I was actually struggling with. And that's sometimes the issue for people so have a look to see what it is that you actually think a coach could help you with. A coach isn't going to be able to do the work for you but they will be able to point you in the right direction and help you stay focused on the high end stuff, wh

8.Final one, to make sure that your immediate circle is very positive and encouraging and I can't overstate this enough. I have been in arenas where there are people that are just PUFFERS is what I call them, they PUFF OUT your flame of excitement and they will dim your light and it saps all of the energy that you have to be able to move forward and they don't actually get any brighter by being around you either. So it's not some sort of community service to be spending your time around people t

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