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Introduction
Do you actually know how busy and when your staff is really busy? There are so many staff members that always looks busy, but are they just keeping themselves busy, or are they actually busy with productive work?
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Introduction
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Focus on most important tasks first
Prioritization is a key part to productivity
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Focus on the most important tasks first
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Cultivate Deep Work
By Newport's definition, deep work refers to: “Professional activity performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.”
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Cultivate Deep Work
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Keep a distraction list to stay focused
Often our own mind can be the biggest source of distractions when we sit down to work: • We suddenly remember the bananas we forgot to pick up at the grocery store. • We begin worrying about the presentation we have to give next week. • A sense of dread creeps over us when we realize how much work we still have to get done by the end of the day. The Distractions List is a simple but powerful technique for dealing with internal distractions like these. By immediately writing down our distracting thoughts, we signal to our minds that those distractions are acknowledged and will be taken care of if necessary. I first came across this idea, by the way, in Chris Bailey’s book Hyperfocus.
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Keep a distraction list to stay focused
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Busy vs. Productive: The Ultimate Challenge
About Lesson

If your day and schedule looks anything like mine, you know that the only constant is change and permanent interruptions, thus leaving you with completing 4th 5th and even 6th most important tasks due to other people’s priorities and agenda’s.

Worst even is if you do not have a priority or task list to from which you plan your day. If you don’t have a proper to-do or task-list to work from and don’t know where to start then we have another article which will assist you with this, but for now we assume you have a proper to-do and priority list.

You now need to allocate your 1st 30 minutes of your day and focus only on what is truly important and urgent. This can be based on the Eisenhower Matrix.

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