4 Common Mistakes That Ruin Your Productivity
June 15, 2022•308 words
We read and watch a lot about productivity and time management these days. We also have a lot of productivity tools and apps at our disposal. However, it is important to get familiar with the basic mistakes that we might be committing while considering ourselves to be productive.
1) Making Ineffective To-Do Lists:
Making a to-do list is an old yet effective way to manage time and be more productive. Pretty much everybody makes to-do lists nowadays. However, just making to-do lists isn’t going to help you, unless you avoid these pitfalls:
Assigning too many tasks: It’s better to write the three most important items you want to accomplish that day. If you have more than three items, keep them to a minimum.
Make a to-do list in the morning: Don’t waste your morning energy on thinking ‘what I should do today?’. Instead, writing down your to-dos in the evening is much better. So on the next day, you can jump right into the action.
Not writing Actionable to-dos: Instead of writing ‘Article writing’ which seems like a vague term, write something clear and actionable, like ‘Write an article about productivity on Medium.com’.
2) Not Prioritizing:
When you have a pile of tasks on your hands, and you don’t prioritize them, you will surely accomplish some of your tasks by the evening .
However, by the end of the day, you will realize that although you did accomplish some simple tasks like replying to a client's email. But in the thick of these trivial tasks, you missed some urgent and important ones e.g. a deadline.
That’s why it is necessary to prioritize your tasks in the order of their importance. So your most important tasks don’t get buried under the unimportant ones. Moreover, eliminate some unnecessary tasks altogether.
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