#Leadership : Top Five #Productivity Tips For #Managers & #Entrepreneurs …What Productivity Tips have you Employed to Become more Efficient & #Successful?

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Mangers/Entrepreneurs are busy souls and with only so many hours in the day and an endless list of tasks to be accomplished, becoming efficient is integral to success.

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In the spirit of brevity, here are my top five productivity tips that will pay immediate dividends:

Create a “Top 3” List: Every morning, write down the top three initiatives you must accomplish that day. Then, go after each and don’t stop to check email or lose focus on other initiatives until these three tasks are complete. Remarkably, you’ll find that those other thousand to-dos don’t weigh as heavily on your mindset now that the biggest items have been accomplished.

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Get Active: It’s no secret that being active is critical to our productivity. I’ve personally seen my productivity levels skyrocket during periods when I’m training for endurance athletic events such as running races and triathlons. And, studies show that even 20 minutes a day of fitness activity can produce endorphins that do wonders for our moods. So whether you’re training for an all-encompassing event or simply going for a short walk during lunch, get active and you’ll quickly see how time away from business will be more than offset by increased output.

Get Help from an Assistant: As an entrepreneur growing a small business, I’ve never had access to a fulltime executive assistant. Recently, I employed the help of an outsourced executive assistant company for just a few hundred dollars a month. I’m able to request support on small but time-consuming tasks without needing to redirect my attention to those initiatives myself. The math is quite simple: if I’m able to save myself even just a few hours a month then the cost is justifiable and my business reaps the rewards of my undistracted attention to our critical objectives.

 Nighttime Lists: I continue to struggle with bouts of insomnia and yet I’ve seen a direct improvement in the quality and quantity of my sleep since bringing a pad of paper and pencil into the bedroom. When I wake up in the middle of the night remembering some task that needs to be accomplished, I write it down. Doing so immediately eradicates any anxiety of forgetting it in the morning. The key is to avoid the bright light of a cell phone or computer screen both of which can disrupt sleep patterns.

Close Email: So many of us are slaves to our emails. The second we hear the bell of a new inbound email, we immediately stop what we’re doing in order to respond to the latest message. And yet, doing so is highly inefficient. We waste time shifting gears only to have to spend additional time returning to the original task at hand later on. Closing our email until we’ve accomplished our critical objectives is one small but incredibly powerful habit for enhanced productivity.

 

Forbes.com | November 19, 2015 | Ryan Frankel 

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanfrankel/2015/11/19/top-five-productivity-tips-for-entrepreneurs/