Work Smarter, Not Harder: Top 101 Tips for Productivity

Do you need help being productive? Do you want to work smarter and not harder? Have I got the perfect tips for you?

I am continually hoping to make efficiencies and be more productive. At the same time, I experience difficulty with allocating my time to the right things.

So, I’ve compiled a list of my top productivity tips and I am sharing them with you to help you get the most out of your day. (SN: You may want to bookmark this page for future reference.)

1. Sort out your documents/papers into a file organizer
2. Sort out all documents on your PC into pertinent folders
3. Have just a single piece of paper around your work area
4. Get another monitor
5. Get satisfactory rest
6. Arrange everything
7. Schedule everything
8. Have a notice board to help you to remember the most essential/pending issues
9. Write a to-do list
10. Evaluate each thing on the schedule and check whether it helps you succeed
11. Separate the means in your schedule
12. Do the hardest assignments on your schedule first
13. Really do the errands on the schedule quickly and reward yourself
14. Utilize Steven Covey’s four-quadrant schedule
15. Try David Allen GTD-training techniques
16. Do the vital things and dodge (if possible) the non-essential things
17. Attempt to bunch comparable things together (e.g. batch day)
18. Kill procrastination when it is conceived – it is the thief of time
19. Distinguish why you are not motivated and battle that
20. Try not to leave anything to the latest possible minute, it will cost you time
21. Make a fake due date and adhere to that
22. Place papers in a recycle bin, so you don’t discard anything critical and invest energy in trying to recreate something
23. Instead of multitasking, just prioritize your top three items to do for the day and follow through by any means necessary
24. Make full utilization of post-it-notes
25. Backup all documents on an external hard-drive or the cloud
26. Carry a notebook at all times.
27. Audit your time: For three days monitor your time at regular intervals
28. While evaluating your time, dispose of the things you squander most time on
29. Ask yourself how you can accomplish more in the day
30. Plan to do undertakings at their suitable time (where you are well on the way to appreciate them)
31. Always ask yourself how you can be more proficient
32. Compose a rundown of 100 things you need to do in life
33. Think back each day at this ‘101 things’ rundown and ask yourself what you did today to accomplish them
34. 80:20 manage – focus on 20% of your customers who give 80% of your salary
35. Try not to be hard on yourself for a bad decision – learn from the experience
36. If you dream of something, work for it
37. Delegate any assignment which you can to another person
38. Pay individuals to do things that would cost you time
39. Treat the individual you designated to with respect
40. Try not to dump tasks on one person
41. Do the hardest things yourself
42. Give the individual a chance to utilize their own particular creativity or else they will take too long attempting to fit your criteria
43. Give the individual a particular date, time, penalty, and reward for the task
44. Record things, regardless of the possibility that it is in an email to the individual you designated to – spares future question which cost time
45. Try not to join bulletins that you will never read
46. Try not to utilize/buy any product which will never profit you
47. Try not to sign into any IM while working
48. Leave no new messages in your inbox
49. Inbox Zero:  Keep no messages in your inbox – file them
50. Try not to erase any important messages
51. Toward the start of a telephone, discussion express the objectives and goals to be clear
52. Have telephone discussions while standing up– they will last less time
53. Call individuals before lunch with the goal that they need to get off the telephone
54. Have something you WANT to do after the discussion, so you push the discussion along
55. Invest in time management courses
56. Try not to control time, manage habits
57. Utilize hands-free/Bluetooth so you can accomplish more than be on the telephone or call while strolling
58. Switch to speakerphone when on hold of a telephone call and accomplish something beneficial while holding
59. Work in such a place where there won’t be diversions
60. Put a bolt-on your office way to avoid diversions
61. Guarantee there is no commotion when you get an email – a major distraction
62. Turn your cellphone off or put it on silent and far from yourself when working
63. In one-on-one meetings disclose to your client/customer or whoever that you just have 5 minutes; this gives you a reason to leave or stretch out however you see fit
64. When somebody is not leaving your office stand up and stroll with them to the entryway
65. On the off chance that they don’t leave, say thanks to them for coming
66. On the off chance that they still don’t leave, shake their hand
67. On the off chance that they still don’t leave, let them know you need to go now and say farewell
68. Make the ‘guest seat’ in your office uncomfortable to guarantee gatherings are shorter
69. NEVER put your feet up in your office
70. Try not to have an office seat in which you can lie down
71. Try not to control time, manage diversions
72. Try not to listen to music/radio while working unless it helps you get into a zone
73. Get a parent-type website blocker
74. Remove the TV from your office
75. Maintain a strategic distance from coffee – it will slow you down and you can’t make the best of your time
76. Surrender smoking/liquor on the grounds that these truly cost time
77. Get some email training
78. Re-arrange due dates rather than hurrying them
79. In meetings take minutes to spare time in the following meeting
80. All individuals in the meeting must have their cellphones off
81. Never have a meeting for 60 minutes
82. Try not to control time, manage activities
83. Just have a meeting if there is a reason
84. Continuously have a plan to follow in gatherings and make them encourage preparing
85. Learn how to say no – so that your time will not be squandered
86. Be practical with your time i.e. don’t generally attempt and fit everything in, be sensible
87. Take advantage of circumstances where you can’t do much else (e.g. perusing reports while working out)
88. Have a packed lunch in the event that you work out of the home so you don’t spend a whole lunch in line at a fast-food restaurant
89. Sulking and groaning will take up an excessive amount of time; simply get on with what must be done
90. As a consultant don’t work over 40 hours in the week unless it is sensible
91. Try not to control time, manage projects
92. Never at any point negotiate the time you spend with your friends and family
93. Utilize applications on your cellphone to expand productivity
94. Don’t consistently change from one application then onto the next – it’s an opportunity wasted
95. Figure out how to touch type
96. Spend an hour exploring keyboard shortcuts
97. Manage your reading material
98. Deal with your filing from your work area
99. Utilize a label machine
100. Try not to control time, manage attention
101. Designate a no meeting day where no meetings can be scheduled and you can focus on important things or your to-do list

YOUR TURN

Give yourself a kick in the pants with these 101 simple productivity tricks and get your to-do list off your back.

What are your tricks for improving productivity? I want to hear!