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How To Be Highly Productive
Getting Everything You Need To Get Done…Done
We all have multiple things we need to get done each day. It’s hard to stay productive when there is so much to do and so many different distractions with barely enough time in the day.
Keep a distraction list
Often when I’m working, ideas and thoughts will pop into my head for a blog post or a bill I need to pay. While these ideas are important and require attention, they just don’t require attention right now. In order to be productive, you need to have a one-track mind most of the time and having a distraction list whether it be a piece of paper or a Google Doc, to jot down distractions has proven to be helpful.
Follow the 80/20 rule
Another way to prioritize tasks comes from the 80/20 principle.
Discovered by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, the 80/20 rule states that in any pursuit 80 percent of the results will come from 20 percent of the efforts.
To maximize efficiency, highly productive people identify the most important 20 percent of their work. Then, they look at ways to cut down the other 80 percent of their schedule, to find more time for the things that make the biggest impact.
