6 Great Ways to Improve Your Daily Routine
Are you always in a hurry
yet never manage to complete your work before deadline? Are you consumed
by jealousy for people who have a much greater workload but manage to
do their job in half the time? You’ve probably tried to improve your daily
routine, but with no results. Nobody has more than 24 hours in
a day, but some people seem to always get much more done than others.
How do they do it?
The answer certainly isn’t some
supernatural ability: it is simply effective use of time. Just use your
willpower and our tips to make the most of your everyday life. You’ll find that
you’ll be able to improve your daily routine right away.
1. Optimize
your work
The best rest is change of work.
Break up your workday into interchanging periods of 45 and 15 minutes, and
switch between tasks. Try to make sure the tasks are completely
different from one another. Looks like a waste of time? Try it out and see how
your output changes.
2.
Set up a schedule
In order to minimize time loss on
transitions from one activity to another you should make sure you always know when and for how long you are going to do each task.
If you always start doing something at exactly the same time every day it will
soon become an ingrained habit, saving you precious minutes otherwise spent on
deciding what to do next.
3.
Minimizing time wasted on routines
There are millions of tips on how to
reduce time spent on mundane activities
like cooking and home cleaning, but one thing works surprisingly well: set the
amount of time you are willing to spend on them each week and each day and
never exceed it. You will be surprised how resourceful you become in the face
of a self-imposed deadline.
4.
Include exercise in your daily schedule
More and more people today
understand that physical exercise is good for them. What a lot of people don’t
get is that in order to reap any benefits from exercise, it needs to be systematic, regular and, preferably, daily.
If you really want to improve the
quality of your life you should have at least 150 minutes of cardiovascular
exercise per week. It will not only make you feel better, but also increase
your clarity of mind, quality of sleep, and general productivity.
5.
Maintaining your productivity throughout the day
Establish and define your workspace.
This is especially important if you work at home, but even if you spend
your day in a cubicle it will pay off. Make sure that the place where you
work is exactly this—the place where you work. It shouldn’t be associated with
any other activities, like chatting or watching TV.
In addition, make sure your
workspace is healthy. It should get plenty of light and air and your
chair and desk should be comfortable. Again, if you work at home it may be
a good idea to do a mold testing. The
presence of harmful molds may severely affect the quality of air, which in turn
will affect your productivity and may have long-term health consequences.
6.
Use tools that will help you concentrate
In the Internet age distractions are
perhaps an even greater enemy of productivity than at any previous
historical period. But in order to fight them you may be able to use the very
place they come from. The Web is rife with online tools that help you concentrate
on the task at hand. Some block distracting sites while you work, others help
you track how much time you waste, others isolate you from social networks.
Only you can define how productive
your life is going to be. Figure out how to really improve your daily routine
and you may accomplish twice as much as you used to, in half the time.
Hopefully these tips will help you make the first step.
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