{"id":3003,"date":"2008-08-12T20:57:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-13T01:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/12\/whats-your-productivity-formula\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T20:57:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-13T01:57:23","slug":"whats-your-productivity-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/?p=3003","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your Productivity Formula?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style='italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Elliott Roberts<\/div>\n<p>Staying on task, despite interruptions, is tough to do.  Your productivity formula will allow you to handle those pesky interruptions as they arise, while staying on track with your target project.  This will result in higher productivity and performance.  Here are some self help tips to customize your productivity formula.<\/p>\n<p>You must have a clear plan.  Are you daily tasks leading you somewhere, or are they simply getting you by?  Take some time to review your long term projects and goals.  Your daily task lists should be the product of those bigger projects being broken down.  If your daily tasks are not leading you toward your bigger picture, start over.  Make every task count.<\/p>\n<p>Prioritize.  Once you have your short range and long range tasks lined up, prioritize what needs to be done during the day.  We tend to think of everything as important, otherwise it wouldn&#8217;t be on the list, but some need to be done earlier and some can simply be deferred to the next day if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Schedule breaks to recharge.  Walk around for a few minutes.  Stretch.  Play a quick game of spyder.  Your body and your brain will feel better and work so much better that you will make up for the lost work time, even exceed it.<\/p>\n<p>Eat lunch.  Again, take care of your body.  Just because you are working through lunch, does not mean you are producing good quality work.  Appreciate the difference and give your body the fuel it needs to recharge and get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid burnout it is important to keep track of the tasks you complete as you go along because it boosts your confidence and motivation, in addition to keeping in touch with the progress of your work.<\/p>\n<p>Deal with as many of the unexpected interruptions that you can, as they come.  They usually just take a minute from what you are doing, but will turn into hours of daunting work if neglected.<\/p>\n<p>Productivity can apply to what needs to be done at home, work, for the kids or for you.  You have to get work done.  Completing that work is called productivity.  It makes life rewarding.  When you develop your own productivity formula you will be amazed by how easy it to achieve the success you desire.<\/p>\n<div class='uawresource'>\n<div style='italic;' class='uawabout'>About the Author:<\/div>\n<div class='uawlinks'>The Author, Elliott Roberts, is a writer at Becomng, a <a href=\"http:\/\/becomng.com\">Personal Development<\/a> blog that deals with topics from health to web applications.  Find additional <a href=\"http:\/\/becomng.com\/topics\/productivity\/\">Productivity Formula<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.articlepower.org\" class=\"kblinker\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More about Articles &raquo;\">articles<\/a> here.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staying on task, despite interruptions, is tough to do.  Your productivity formula will allow you to handle those pesky interruptions as they arise, while staying on track with your target project.  This will result in higher productivity and performance.  Here are some self help tips to customize your productivity formula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":515,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","tag-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/515"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magic1host.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}