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Long Term Productivity: 5 Tips to Actually Accomplish Things in Limited Time
You Can’t Efficiently Work if You Don’t Act Smart and Constantly Drain Your Mental Energy.
Do you work long and hard? Or do you work smart? And which is more desirable?
As society changes and we are working more from home, we also move further away from the ethos of working as much as possible. How many hours we put in every day or week is no longer the most critical factor.
We desire even more actually to get things done — the right stuff — produce output and even more: Create value.
From this point of view, productivity is still about working hard, but more so about working smarter, not longer and harder.
With time (and the ability to mentally focus) being the limiting factor, we need to act smart to move the needle.
Because time is the one thing we can never get back and the one resource we all share — with an availability of 24 hours, 7 days a week.
And we can’t focus and work at our optimum 12 or even just 8 hours every day, especially if we approach our work in ways that drain our mental energy more than necessary.
So no matter if you are a writer, a freelancer of any other kind, an (aspiring) entrepreneur sidehusteling while working their 9–5, a business career hustler or a student:
Getting more productive (time) by getting the most and most important things done in as little time as possible, whilst not bleeding your mental energy and motivation dry: That is an effort that pays off in multiple ways and makes your life much better.
But how do we get the best out of our time? How do we get and stay most productive in any given working moment?
5 Tips to Actually Accomplish Things in Limited Time
Tip 1: If you want to get things done: Don’t multitask. Never.
We are not able to multitask usefully. No matter how much you want to, it will kill your productivity every time, and you will waste it instead of gaining it.
