17. You can achieve your long-term goals by integrating them into the everyday.
If you don’t break down your goals into mini objectives, they won’t happen. Consider how you can make small steps toward your long-term goals every day. Are you planning to run a marathon on your next birthday or another big event? Great. You can achieve your goal with a 10-minute jog.
18. Communication of Productivity Objectives
When we share our goals with others, we are more likely to achieve them. It can be formal like telling your boss, colleagues, or a close friend what you are up to. Or it can be informal, such as chatting about your recent activities with a family member. It’s important to externalize what you are doing and what is needed to complete a task.
19. Slow down
Quantity is rarely a winner. Quality always comes out on top. Slow down when you are moving quickly through a task. We are not only more likely to make mistakes , which will take longer to fix in the end. But we also train ourselves to overpack and don’t communicate that deadlines might be unreasonable or we need more resources. What are the things you need to do a good job, and not just one that is quick?
20. Define your own personal productivity metrics
In this context, productivity doesn’t mean doing more and faster. To be more precise, we could say that productivity is about doing the best possible job at the right moment, with the correct resources and with the best objectives in order to achieve the best result. The “number” of items we check off doesn’t matter so much as the way we use our energy to accomplish the tasks that are most important.
