3 🔑 To Productivity
(1) Parent Your Phone
John Mark Comer is a pastor in Portland, Oregon. I’ve heard him mention this thought many times, and for me it has helped tremendously with my productivity. He says if you’re a smart parent your children go to bed before you go to bed and wake up after you wake up. This allows you the parent to be able to spend time with your spouse, catch up on things around the house, decompress and much more. The same is true with your phone. Parent your phone. At night and at whatever time you see fit, turn Do Not Disturb on, plug your phone up, and put it somewhere you can’t see it. Put it to sleep! Parent your phone. At night this will allow you to recharge in a better way than getting caught up in the Instagram vortex. In the morning, don’t get your phone - “wake it up” - after you’ve done what you feel is necessary to start your day well. This small shift with your phone will change your productivity throughout your day.
(2) Have A Task Manager
I’ve hated task managers forever. It seems so redundant - to get a task from someone, then take the time to type it in the task manager, then as I’m working on the task enter notes into that task on said task manager, and then eventually check it off once it’s complete. However, task managers such as Asana, Slack, and Tasks (google calendar feature) do three things. (1) Accountability - other people can see where you’re at in your work. (2) Organization - even though I love using old fashion notebooks and pens, keeping that organized is a nightmare. (3) Reminders - you can set tasks/goals you want to accomplish in the future and be reminded of them when you can actually focus on them.
(3) Measure What You’re Doing
If you don’t measure your progress you will never know what’s working and what’s not. To be productive means to produce large or quality amounts of something. So, if you want to be productive you must know the best way you are producing the most or the best. That’s a weird sentence let me explain. You may like doing something a certain way but it’s not getting you the results you want. The only way to find a better way to do this is to change it up and measure if you’re producing more or better and doing it more efficiently. Measuring what you’re currently doing will always give you a look under the hood to see if what you’re doing is actually providing results.
John Mark Comer is a pastor in Portland, Oregon. I’ve heard him mention this thought many times, and for me it has helped tremendously with my productivity. He says if you’re a smart parent your children go to bed before you go to bed and wake up after you wake up. This allows you the parent to be able to spend time with your spouse, catch up on things around the house, decompress and much more. The same is true with your phone. Parent your phone. At night and at whatever time you see fit, turn Do Not Disturb on, plug your phone up, and put it somewhere you can’t see it. Put it to sleep! Parent your phone. At night this will allow you to recharge in a better way than getting caught up in the Instagram vortex. In the morning, don’t get your phone - “wake it up” - after you’ve done what you feel is necessary to start your day well. This small shift with your phone will change your productivity throughout your day.
(2) Have A Task Manager
I’ve hated task managers forever. It seems so redundant - to get a task from someone, then take the time to type it in the task manager, then as I’m working on the task enter notes into that task on said task manager, and then eventually check it off once it’s complete. However, task managers such as Asana, Slack, and Tasks (google calendar feature) do three things. (1) Accountability - other people can see where you’re at in your work. (2) Organization - even though I love using old fashion notebooks and pens, keeping that organized is a nightmare. (3) Reminders - you can set tasks/goals you want to accomplish in the future and be reminded of them when you can actually focus on them.
(3) Measure What You’re Doing
If you don’t measure your progress you will never know what’s working and what’s not. To be productive means to produce large or quality amounts of something. So, if you want to be productive you must know the best way you are producing the most or the best. That’s a weird sentence let me explain. You may like doing something a certain way but it’s not getting you the results you want. The only way to find a better way to do this is to change it up and measure if you’re producing more or better and doing it more efficiently. Measuring what you’re currently doing will always give you a look under the hood to see if what you’re doing is actually providing results.
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