1. Follow a morning routine.
Create an empowering morning routine that you can wield every single morning to give you the biggest leg-up in the day.
2. Implement the 80/20-Rule.
Also known as the Pareto Principle, the 80/20-Rule states that 80 percent of the results comes from 20 percent of the efforts. In sales, it also means that 80 percent of the sales comes from 20 percent of the customers. Identify this small subset of efforts that are producing these larger results.
3. Create a daily to-do list.
Create a simple to-do list every single day with action items that will move you closer and closer to your goals.
4. Identify important-but-not-urgent tasks.
In time management, the important but not urgent tasks are those that will help to move you closest to your long-term goals.
5. Track productivity numbers daily.
Take the time to track everything. Down to the very last red cent, dollar, ounce, pound, gram or any other unit of measure. If you do this, you can recognize patterns to help you be more productive.
6. Do a weekly review every day.
Go through what you achieved at the end of every single day and take account and inventory of that so that you can notice your progress.
7. Ignore the unimportant.
Ignore the things that are wasting your time but that you tend to obsess over. While difficult at first, with practice, this does get easier.
8. Take ample breaks throughout the day.
Small diversions from the task at hand can help to amplify productivity, suggests this scientific study.
9. Visualize the end-result.
Visualization is a huge tool in helping you to overcome and mount the seemingly insurmountable, helping to be more productive throughout the day.
10. Avoid interruptions and distractions.
Interruptions and distractions can break the flow of thinking. One study suggests that it takes approximately 25 minutes to get back into the groove after loosing your train of thought.