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How can 20% add to increased productivity and less work hours for your business? 20% can make momentous impact towards the success you want to achieve.

Try These Five Strategies to Help You Increase Your Productivity

1. Attain Organization

People loose about 7 hours each week due to disorganization. Organize your office into productive environment. As a business owner, you can create your work environment. It’s critical toward your long term success to work in an environment which supports you.

2. Create time synergy

Some people are night owls other are early bird. When you know which type you are, you can schedule your task and projects more effectively around your energy cycle.

3. Go Into Super Focus Mode

Limit access to yourself… turn off the phone, email and twitter. No interruptions. Set a timer and stay 100% focused on the task at hand. Group your tasks in bunches. Return emails and phone calls at the same time. Do all your writing in chunks, dedicate certain days for project, etc.

4. Take Care of Yourself

Self neglect can cause tension on any business through increased stress and strain. Keep personal health a priority as it is effective in good business management.

5. Relax and refresh

Sometimes when you feel overwhelm and pressure, take a brain break. Let your mind wander for a few minutes. Taking a quick break almost always leads to a boost in productivity.

Choose one strategy at a time to complete, take time, assess, and have flexibility and realism to projected goals.

What would you do if you found yourself with extra time a day? Would you get a jump on the next day’s projects? Would you use it to work on that never-ending honey-do list? Would you use that extra hour to ensure you would have an extra hour every day to make yourself invaluable to your employer, your spouse, or your community?

Whether you are a stay-at-home mom or a CEO, chances are if you are “at least at certain times during the year” required to do extensive reading for your job. Quarterly reports or the latest parenting blogs and books can range from two pages to two hundred, and that can take some time to read especially when you are supposed to be keeping up on what the competitors are doing, or you only have naptime to yourself and want to take full advantage.

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What would you do with that extra time a day that you never had before? Get more sleep? Spend time with your family? Go out with friends? Finally do all those things you’d always said you wanted to do but never had time “like volunteering at a local charity? What would you do if you could read faster” finally join a book club? Take a continuing education class? Read the encyclopedia?

How about “Anything you would like to do”?

Are you one of those people who always seem to struggle with time management? Do you spend hours starting and inventing hypothetical solutions but dont seem to get many of them done? Do you experience a lot of stress due to undone tasks regardless of your good intentions?

Do you have these symptoms? Spending your last few days of December doing well overdue travel expenses? Do you invent new diaries, planners (computer or paper based), only to yet again be looking for that confounded small piece of paper that you wrote some important details onto?

You are in need of a system that will make time management work for you. Whatever the system that you select to organize your thoughts, actions, contacts and diary, you still need the discipline and consistency to stick to one system for long enough for it to work.

Flat file paper notebooks and diaries dont seem to work for creative and innovative people. We have a need for colour and illustrations and practicality. Perhaps you also prefer a system that is always close at hand. If you are inclined to use colour and mind mapping and other graphically visible systems I suggest that you choose your stationery and your pens carefully.

What are the benefits of having a time and information management system? You can make such notes quickly before you go to bed, have breakfast, or while you watch the news on TV. Why would you want to make such notes at such times? Firstly, because 10 minutes later you have forgotten. Secondly, simply because you can, and because it creates the space for you to be your expressive self when you are doing other important things!

Accept that your brain is wired in a certain way and that you create the paper or electronic systems that will provide maximum means to capitalize on your invaluable if not ingenious thought processes. Im not just writing this to falsely compliment you either. Take some positive steps today that will help you learn about yourself and then capitilise on that knowledge.

If you spend some time in creating that elusive system that will work for you, fight off the temptation to depart from it and only effect changes with the discipline of a computer systems change manager! In other words, adapt and change and evolve your system by all means, but keep the consistency at all costs. Contact the author if you would like some more information on this subject.