Productivity

Recently a friend of mine asked me how I manage to multi task?. My answer is I am not good at multi tasking!!! In fact being very lazy I like to be in a situation where I am doing nothing.But I realized till we are alive we can't sit idol.So do something productive in life with time allotted to us.Over period of time I have figured out few things which have worked for me. I will be listing them down

1.No Multi tasking:Secret to productivity is single Handling do only one thing at a time. Ensure that you complete the task at hand and then only switch over to next one.

2.Break projects into small tasks:Recently I was asked to make a presentation on a subject which I was new to.I was intimated about it three weeks in advance. So I started making one slide per day. Finally by end of two weeks I had 12 slides.Now I am well prepared for the presentation in time.

3.Keep a Diary:Most successful people in world keep a dairy. Richard Branson who is highly successful businessman still prefers a Diary over a computer.Record all your thoughts and tasks in the dairy. Review your to do list every morning.End of the day write down all the tasks that were closed in that day. Make a short term and long term to do list. Over period of time you will realize you will end up achieving most of the things you wrote down.

4.Switch on and Switch off:In my case I realized I have very poor attention span. So I always work in spans of 15-30 min. After that I take a break or walk around. I realized that taking breaks actually improves our productivity,creativity and ability to learn.

5.Learn something new everyday:This keeps our brain agile and plastic.It is also very important to learn something new from outside our area of work. For example an engineer can learn about cooking, history, medicine, plant,animals etc. Finally this knowledge from different areas converge and become more useful to us in our daily lives.

6.Think on Paper:

Most of us think in our minds. But this is not a very productive way of thinking. If you want to really think deep and find solutions then think on paper. Once you start writing down thoughts and ideas on a book your clarity increases. You arrive at quality good decisions in lesser time.