Enhance your productivity with minor tweaks like setting your top three priorities, drinking more water, and saying ‘no’ guilt-free.
Exercise regularly and eat breakfast to boost energy and keep focus throughout the day.
Take breaks to recharge your mind and body; this helps improve productivity.
Avoid multitasking as it decreases efficiency; focus on one task at a time.
Implementing these little tweaks can lead to significant improvements in daily productivity.
Even the most successful people need to change up their days and make some little tweaks to enhance productivity. They need to find that little boost of energy to transform their day. They need more self-control.
These little tweaks to your day can go a long way to making you more successful.
Everyone wants to be more productive. It doesn’t matter what you do for a living or what stage you are in your life. Getting stuff done is an excellent feeling.
“For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”
We don’t drink enough water every day. Water helps regulate blood pressure and provides nutrients and oxygen to cells.
Researchers recommend drinking four to six glasses of water every day. The average cup is 8 ounces, equivalent to 32 to 48 ounces of water daily.
If you want to increase your energy level, add lemon to your water. Lemons have tons of nutrients, so lemon water gives you natural energy.
3. Say “no” without feeling guilty
Saying “no” is not easy. But you must declare it to keep you sane.
No is a powerful word that can be said without burning bridges. It helps you protect your day and achieve your top three priorities.
You can only achieve so much in one day. Give yourself a break. Realize that saying “no” is okay. Saying “no” will help you set boundaries and better manage your work and life responsibilities.
Don’t be that person who won’t say “no” to anything. It’s a word that is meant to be said.
Research says that you are more likely to burn out. You can also become depressed if you have difficulty saying “no” to things.
Communicating “no” helps your mental health and productivity — a win-win.
4. Exercise
Most adults don’t exercise the recommended 30 minutes a day. Exercise is an intelligent investment in your mind, body, and soul.
Regular exercise can boost your daily happiness. Exercise can make you happier than money does.
Moving your body during the day helps you sharpen your mind and keep your health.
Exercise helps prevent illness, improves self-control, and keeps your energy levels high throughout the day. Your body will give you warnings that you are not exercising enough.
“You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.”
Eating breakfast reduces your chances of being hungry during the day. It gives you the energy you need to start your day right.
Breakfast helps you start your metabolism — the chemical reactions in your body that change food into energy.
Research shows that eating breakfast is good for your health.
When you skip a meal, especially your first one, your body doesn’t get the blood sugar it needs. This lack of sugar affects your muscles and brain performance.
Breakfast gives you the energy to move, think, and grow.
6. Take more breaks
It seems counterintuitive. Taking a break makes you more productive. Taking a break gets a bad rap. It’s good for you.
Breaks recharge your mind and body.
When you don’t take breaks, you can lose focus. To guarantee you meet your top three priorities, you need to focus. Work is challenging. You make it more complicated when you don’t take breaks.
Research shows that your performance declines the longer you focus on a single task. Schedule great work breaks into your day.
Our brains and bodies need breaks throughout the day. Humans are not built to focus on a task for extended periods.
7. Don’t multitask
There’s a myth that you must do more to be more productive. It can be tempting to do a million things at once.
Multitasking decreases productivity. It’s a bad habit; if you do it, you should work hard to break it.
Multitasking is tempting, but it reduces your work efficiency. Your brain can only focus on one thing at a time. When you try to do two things concurrently, your brain can’t execute both things successfully.
Research shows that long-term multitasking can rewire your brain and make you chronically less productive.
The more things you do at once, the less effective you become. Our brains can’t constantly switch gears and bounce back and forth between tasks.
“Multitasking is the ability to screw everything up simultaneously.”
Jeremy Clarkson, an English broadcaster, journalist, farmer, game show host and writer
Bringing it all together
Remember that the little things can add up to big things. Here are seven tweaks to transform your day and enhance your productivity.
Set your top three priorities, drink more water, and say “no” without feeling guilty. Exercise, eat breakfast, take more breaks, and don’t multitask.
You must have a daily routine to be productive. The key is to reassess it occasionally.
Little tweaks can go a long way toward ensuring you hit all cylinders and maximizing your productivity. The key is to be intentional about your day.
