How to be More Productive?
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This document provides 4 steps to help people be more productive: 1) Analyze how you spend your time to identify areas that could be improved. 2) Discount or ignore unproductive demands on your time. 3) Work in focused time chunks without distractions. 4) Share your successes or struggles with being more productive with others. Following these 4 steps can help solve the problem of feeling overwhelmed by different productivity advice online.
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- 1. How to be More Productive?
- 2. Do you Google your Productivity Inspiration?
- 3. Do you Google your Productivity Inspiration? And get sad and confused about which quote or ways to follow and which to discount?
- 4. Worry No More!! THE SOLUTION, you ask?
- 5. FOOLproof steps of being more productive! 1. ANALYZE YOUR TIME 2. DISCOUNT (at least pretend to!) UNPRODUCTIVE DEMANDS 3. WORK IN FOCUSED CHUNKS OF TIME 4. SHARE YOUR SUCCESS (or not) BACK WITH US
- 6. 1. ANALYZE YOUR TIME
- 7. 2. DISCOUNT (at least pretend to!) UNPRODUCTIVE DEMANDS
- 8. 3. WORK IN FOCUSED CHUNKS OF TIME
- 9. 4. SHARE YOUR SUCCESS (or not) BACK WITH ME
- 10. THANK YOU