Daily Productivity Tips: 7 Habits to Make Every Day Productive

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Join career expert and award-winning author Andrew LaCivita as he reviews Daily productivity tips: 7 simple habits to make every day productive!

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Are you achieving all you can every day? Feeling like your days just get away from you? Do you look back and wonder where did the time go?

No skills or much time required…

The greatest part about these habits is they require no skills and very little time to put in place.

What happens between the time you wake up and the end of the year?

Toward the end of last year, I did a video and a post about how to reflect your way to success.

What happens in between your mornings and when you wake up toward the end of the year? You live each day!

The 7 Habits…

The first two, in fact, start the night before.

1. Identify three goals you want to accomplish the next day?

Think in advance about what you want to accomplish. The most important aspect when identifying these goals is to make sure there’s an element of completeness.

You don’t want your goals to be goals such as “make progress on my project.” It’s too loose. Focus more on what you need to complete in step one of the project. If step one is too big to complete in one day, then identify the portion of step one.

2. Schedule your entire calendar for the next day (the night before).

Schedule your day. I stress the word your day.

You will be far less likely to get interrupted by other people’s issues or other people’s requests if you’ve made your plan.

Also, I recommend scheduling every single minute of your day. If you don’t know what you’re doing between 1:00 PM and 2:00 PM, schedule “open time” or “buffer time” or “recovery time.”

3. Identify three things you’re grateful for as early in the morning as possible.

However you start your day, whatever morning routine is, be grateful. Be deliberately grateful.

Whether you just get up and take a shower or stretch and have a cup of coffee or dance or whatever, spend a moment to be grateful. It takes a mere minute to write down three things for which you are grateful.

It is physiologically impossible to be stressed and grateful at the same time. You’re giving yourself a chance to be stress-free even if it’s for mere seconds.

There is another aspect to gratitude. You can be assured gratitude is a wonderful place where there is a force greater than you and greater than I that is always available to you in a positive way.

4. Identify what you accomplished during the day.

After you work your day, write down what you actually achieved related to those three big goals.

5. Consider your lessons of the day.

Write down a couple or three lessons you actually learned for that day.

It’s really, really important to take a few minutes to think about what transpired over the course of the day and what you actually learned.

What did you learn about yourself or your projects or the people you work or what to do or not to do?

If you don’t identify these lessons, you’re not going to feel accomplished and you’ll make the same mistakes.

6. Celebrate your victories.

Write down your three wins for the day.

Give yourself a little brag zone. It’s okay to say, “Wahoo, I accomplished goals one, two, and three!”

7. Identify three things you’re grateful for as late in the day as possible.

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ABOUT TIPS FOR WORK AND LIFE®
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Tips for Work and Life® is a weekly careers, hiring, and motivational show full of helpful job search strategies, career management and acceleration tactics, recruitment techniques, and self-help aids with award-winning author, executive recruiter, and trainer Andrew LaCivita. Tips for Work and Life® has been cited by several sources as a Top 100 Careers and HR Blog. He includes these 7-20 minute multicast shows filmed with no teleprompter in one take as part of his blog and podcast.

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Hi everyone! The daily grind is rough! We all know it! Let me know what you struggle with and I'll be happy to help!

andylacivita
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Glad I found this one -- perfect timing. I've been feeling a little overwhelmed and not very productive in many areas of my life.

Question -- what's the difference between Step 4 (Accomplishments) and Step 6 (Victories)??

conniecotter
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Andy..I couldn't agree with you more..above all else you need the gratitude to drive the successes to achieve those goals....thanks as always.... toronto

varunpanday
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Thank you for the very useful tips! I've already started to implement them!

mye