subject: 7 Ways to Increase Your Productivity - Tip # 4 [print this page] 7 Ways to Increase Your Productivity - Tip # 4
It would be a fair assessment to say that the most difficult parts of your journey to being more productive are behind you. To recap, the previously mentioned7 Ways to Increase Your Productivity include 1)Assess current productivity and evaluate obstacles 2)Evaluate individual tasks / Break projects into smaller tasks and 3)Create schedule. Now you will implement the schedule you put in place, placing smaller parts of larger projects into proper time slots.
Implement Schedule and Set New Goals
Implementing your new schedule will require you to only become familiar with your time slot appointments and work on respective tasks at their appropriate times. An important component to this step is starting each task as closely as possible to the scheduled time, and ending it in the same manner. This is crucial in this stage so that you can accurately adjust your schedule to fit your needs and slowing increase your time working. That is the goal, to increase productivity overall.
Implementing the schedule and adjusting it should lead you into setting new goals for your productivity. Tip # 1, assessing current productivity, was necessary before completing this step. By knowing how productive you currently are, once tasks are scheduled, you should be able to project how productive you can be, or desire to be.
Be realistic -- but also do not make the goal so easy it requires little work on your behalf. Increasing productivity carries with it the benefit of eventually improving sales and profit. Cutting corners or being too lenient on yourself will benefit no one, and certainly not your business. The more productive you become, the easier it will be for you to commit to your routine. Practice makes perfect and this rule applies to everything. Practice spending your time wisely and you will soon perfect great time management skills.
Proper management of time is one side effect of properly implementing your schedule and setting new goals for your productivity. In one way, you are delegating your time, and in doing so making better use of it. In another way, proper delegation of your time is producing tangible benefits like increase in sales.
