3 Simple Tips for Increasing Your Productivity in the Workplace
3 Simple Tips for Increasing Your Productivity in the Workplace
Do you ever find yourself getting stuck in a creative block more often than you would like? Here are a few tips on what we've found work for us to help get us increase our productivity and get our goals accomplished.
1. Listen to Music
We're not recommending any specific genre of music, but we definitely do recommend listening to stuff you like. We all have different tastes in music, and the best way to get ourselves "in the zone" is to listen to music we actually like and can groove to. If we told you to listen to rock music but you're neutral to it and neither like nor dislike it, it will have little to no effect on your mood and work productivity. However, if you're a fan of jazz music and listen to it while you're working, you will find yourself in a more relaxed state of mind and you will fall into a more natural rhythm of workflow.
If you begin over-analyzing your task, it will take longer to get completed because you will keep thinking about making it too perfect, and you may incidentally end up doing more than what is necessary. If you allow your mind to be partially occupied by something that you enjoy and that doesn't take over too many of your senses, the tools you use on a regular basis become like second nature to you. This is because you're thinking less about the logistics of how to get the task done and instead relying on what you already know, which is usually common sense stuff that appeals to most everyone.
We do not, however, recommend playing music videos while you work because your visual and auditory senses would both be too distracted for you to get anything accomplished in a timely manner. With music videos and TV shows, there's also usually a storyline to follow, which requires too much of your mental capacity to keep up with.
2. Take Breaks
One of the worst things you can do to yourself is get burnt out. All work and no play makes for a mentally exhausted worker who will soon become tired of performing the mundane tasks required of them everyday, thereby taking longer to complete them and becoming less productive. We ourselves often fall victim to the idea that if we take a break, we won't get our work done on time, or that breaks are time wasted where we could be designing or coding. Well, the good thing about having dogs is that we're forced to take breaks and go for walks.
It may be the fresh air or the fact that we're not sitting in front of our computers with the internet there to indulge our over-analytical tendencies, but we come back with better and more creative ideas after our walks. We have the opportunity to talk to each other about what the other person is working on, and being able to talk to each other and get a different perspective allows us to think on a broader level and about the bigger picture.
3. Stay Organized
Finally, one last tip on increasing your productivity is to stay organized where it matters most to you, whether it be organizing your physical environment or your mental workload. To some people, having a clean desk versus a cluttered one helps them get into a better work mode because they can find notes and files easier or not be distracted by little things that don't need their attention right away. For others, making lists and breaking down large projects into smaller tasks or grouping similar tasks together makes more of a positive difference in their work productivity. The lists help them stay organized by allowing them to see visually what is the most efficient way of handling several tasks at once.
For those who like to make lists, we recommend WorkFlowy (http://www.workflowy.com), which is a simple online tool that helps you stay organized. You can even share your lists with others on your team, and individuals can cross tasks off of the lists as they get them completed so that everyone stays on the same page. Knowing exactly what has already been done and what needs to be completed next can help you stay focused and gather the right tools at the right time to help you do your work more efficiently, with less time spent on thinking about the tasks that don't need your attention yet and are taking up some of your precious mental resources.
These are three simple tips on how to increase your work productivity and get past some of the creative blocks you encounter. Do you have any other suggestions on things that have helped you increase your productivity in the workplace?
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