How To Get More Productivity Step-By-Step

Balance is the cornerstone to effectiveness. When most people think of balance they think of the balance between work and personal life. What I am focusing on in this particular blog post is achieving balance just in the work part of your life to gain maximum productivity.

Just as when you are looking at all of the areas of life, for example, physical, financial, family, social, work and personal development, to gain a work life balance, we can use the same approach to gain balance within just the work area of your life, to gain maximum productivity.

The 1st step you need to take with this process is to list the areas of your business you are responsible for. For example, sales management, managing the finances, marketing and promoting the business, training the team and so on. If you are a small business owner reading this you would probably be thinking “it would be nice if that's all I had to do". So there may be more areas that you need to take note of, but to get started simply look at the highest leveraged areas of the business that you are responsible for.

The 2nd step, is to write yourself an objective for each of these high leveraged areas of your business. Keep it simple here, create objectives or targets that can be accomplished within the next week or so, this way you learn "how to win". This is a better approach than setting massive big one year goals that end up causing overwhelm, and you will eventually throw this whole idea out the window.

The 3rd step, is to break down those objectives into action steps that can be taken within a 20 min or less time frame. Basically what you are doing here is breaking the big objective down into bite sized chunks.

The 4th step, is to commit to looking at the list of activities on a daily basis, and ensuring that at least one activity from your list of actions gets written onto your daily action list.

By following these for simple easy to implement steps, you will start to make massive productivity gains by having a more balanced approach to your day, rather than getting sucked into spending large chunks of time in just one area, causing other areas of your business to go unattended to and causing unnecessary crisis, that will take time out of your day that you could be investing in other business building activities.