Work, home, partner, family... During our life we have a great accumulation of responsibilities and obligations that can make us feel overwhelmed. It is important to know how to organize ourselves well and live without stress and with moments of well-being but, many times, this seems to be incompatible. It is for this reason that in Psychology-Online we are going to discover you how to be more productive in life so you can organize yourself and reach everything that is important to you. But, yes, without abandoning someone who is very, very important in your life: yourself. Follow these tips and learn how to organize your routine well in order to increase productivity without increasing stress.
Index
- Be productive and efficient: 5 essential tips
- Habits to be more productive
- Example of a productive day
Be productive and efficient: 5 essential tips.
If you want to learn how to be more productive in life, it is important that we start making some changes that will help us organize ourselves better. Many times
Organize your day with a list
Having all the obligations stored in the head can end up saturating us and feeling that we are overwhelmed. Therefore, it is best to visualize it by writing a list with everything you have to do. Write everything down as it comes to mind so that you can see what tasks you have pending today.
Prioritize daily tasks
Once you have the list written, it is time to order it. For this, we recommend that you read well everything you have to do and you order it from 1 to 10 1 being the most urgent or important and 10 being the least urgent. This simple task will also help you to see that there are some tasks that, if you don't do today, nothing happens. Therefore, it will help you to relativize and to be able to relax.
Organize your day
Once you have everything organized, it is time to insert these tasks into your routine. The best thing is that you do a planningand that you try to make it as effective as possible so as not to waste time. For example, if you have to go shopping at the supermarket, you can do it when you leave work and, thus, as soon as you get home you will no longer have to go out.
Focus on each task individually
Another tip to be more productive in life is to avoid the accumulation of tasks. The best thing is that you simplify your routine and make them "easy" to do. Therefore, it is best that you go one by one and focus on them to avoid feeling overwhelmed with all the obligations.
Avoid distractions
If you have a day full of tasks, the best thing is that you try to be effective during the development of these. That is, if you have to pick up your children at school at five o'clock but, first, you have to go to dry cleaning, avoid talking on the mobile with your mother or your friend or talking to the shop assistant. You have to be more effective and organize yourself well so as not to feel overwhelmed.
But BEWARE: it is not a matter of you being stressed, it is best to organize your schedule so that you can also enjoy your day and that everything that is in the background can be done in another moment. Remember that the important thing is to enjoy life, not suffer it.
In this other article we will discover the positive and negative points of be demanding of yourself.
Habits to be more productive.
If you want to learn how to be more productive in life, you have to keep in mind that, in addition to the above tips, there is also a series of lifestyle habits that you must change. The reason is that, as much as you want to organize your day, if you do not follow these habits, it is likely that it will be more difficult for you to organize yourself well.
Your most productive hour
Everyone has some time of day where they are more productive than others. It is important to know it in order to be able to gather a large number of tasks in that space of time and, in the rest of the day, to simplify and make them easier to do. Learning to detect this temporality will help you make the most of your energy and avoid feeling yourself all day with obligations that you feel you cannot fulfill.
Have an agenda
Although it seems silly, the truth is that an agenda can help you greatly to organize your day and to be able to remember all the pending tasks. It is a good way, too, to be able to visualize how you have the week so that you can move around these obligations and download them when you feel like you can't take it anymore. There is nothing more priority than you, do not forget!
Rest an average of 8 hours a day
If you want to be more productive every day, it is essential that you get enough rest. Sleeping 8 hours is what our body needs to be energetic and vital during the morning and, therefore, give it enough. Try to go to sleep sooner and avoid activities that activate you at night (surfing the Internet, watching action movies, playing sports, drinking caffeinated drinks, etc.). Restful and deep sleep is what you need to be at your best the next day. In this other article we discover the best relaxation techniques to get a good night's sleep.
Get up early to seize the day
Getting up at eleven in the morning will not help you at all if you want to be more productive because, at night, you will hardly be doing things that ease your daily load. The best thing is that, as we have said before, you start having healthier rest habits so that you can rest 8 hours and get up early in the morning. Setting the alarm clock at 8 a.m. if you go to sleep at 12 a.m. will help you to enjoy the night but without letting the morning pass.
Example of a productive day.
Now that you know all the tips to be more productive in life, it is time for you to we discovered a productive day as an example and that will help you visualize everything we are telling you. We offer you a planning that can serve as inspiration to make yours.
- 8h: Wake up
- 8:30 am: Breakfast
- From 9am to 2pm: Work
- 14h: Lunch
- 15h: Go to do a task (whatever you can do near work or where you eat)
- From 4pm to 6pm: Work
- 6.30pm: Rest at home / Be with the children. Spend some leisure time.
- 7.30pm: Do the simple task that you have left for the last hour of the day (for example, put the washing machine, iron the clothes, etc.). Make sure this is a household chore to avoid having to go out again.
- 9pm: Dinner
- 9.30pm: Break
- 11.30pm: Sleep
This is just an example and, depending on how your day is and the tasks you have to do, you can organize yourself in one way or another.
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
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