How To Work Faster And Smarter

How To Work Faster And Smarter

1. Structure

Planning, using productivity tools, an scheduling tasks on your calendar can help. Set yourself up to win by breaking tasks down into manageable chunks, so you can know what is most important to do first, and still have time to take of yourself, such as eating well, exercising, relaxing, etc. without self-care, you lose efficiency due to being overworked.

2. Urgent doesn’t necessarily mean important

What someone else thinks is urgent can create a sense of people-pleasing induced panic. If you know it is not important, then prioritize, and do what is most important first instead. You know best how to set your priorities and get your work done.

3. Turn it off

Power down those phones, turn off notifications. You will get more done, if you focus only at the task at hand and answer to all missed cal ls and notifications once you’re done.

4. Take breaks

Get up. Move around. Shake it out. Eyestrain an headaches can happen if you look at a computer screen for too long. Get outside for a quick stroll an come back feeling refreshed and energized.

5. Say “no”

Don’t over-commit: when you are already on a tight deadline, don’t take on anything else. Put a moratorium on saying “yes,” to anything new until you complete this project. Don’t leave people hanging, but say you will contact them when you are finished..

6. Stop saying “I’m so busy”

It is complaining, and complaining only makes you – and everyone around you – feel worse. Instead of saying “I’m so busy”, say “I have already come so much closer to my goal”. This will encourage you to keep going

structure ['strʌktʃə]

n. 结构；构造；建筑物vt. 组织；构成；建

造

productivity [,prɔdʌk'tivəti,

n. 生产力；生产率；生产能力

panic ['pænik]

n. 恐慌，惊慌；大恐慌adj. 恐慌的；没有理

由的vt. 使恐慌vi. 十分惊慌

priority [prai'ɔrəti]

n. 优先；优先权；[数] 优先次序；优先考虑的事

notification [,nəutifi'keiʃən]

n. 通知；通告；[法] 告示