5 ways to be more productive than usual

Author: Nadia Ahmed Uqaili

Make 2 to-do lists

A great way to make sure you don’t feel overburdened yet continuously get work done is to make 2 to-do lists. One should have the more laborious tasks and the other should have simple tasks. If you alternatively finish tasks from both lists, you’ll get a break each time you do a simple task, making it the perfect balance between productivity and rest.

Work in a clean and organised environment

Many might think of this as unimportant but making sure the station, room or space you are working in is clean and organised, greatly impacts your productivity. It gets rid of the unnecessary stress of ‘sorting things out’ in order to find something and makes room for more useful thoughts in your head.

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Don’t wait

Many a times people keep waiting for the time when they’re completely free or in a specific place or with specific people in order to start a task. Usually, when whatever they’re waiting for doesn’t happen perfectly, they lose confidence in themselves or the situation and hence, are unable to perform their tasks well. So, don’t wait for perfect situations. Learn to work from wherever you are, with whoever you are.

Always wake up early

There are 2 main drawbacks of waking up late. Firstly, sleeping excessively makes you lazy no matter how well rested you are. The speed of being able to do work after long hours of sleep is always slower than it is when you have slept for only a decent amount of hours. Secondly, when you wake up after most of the day has gone by, psychologically your brain tells you it’s no use to try to get much done on that day as ultimately there isn’t time to do much.

Pre-plan your day

Make sure to figure out exactly what you have to do the next day before you go to sleep at night. This way you’ll wake up with your mind already made to do the tasks that need to be done and hence, will make minimal excuses to stall the process. Also, the time that otherwise would be used in figuring out what to do will be used in actually doing those things.