10 things the most productive people do differently

​Do you often say there are not enough hours in the day? Do you often wonder where the time has gone? Do you regularly think that you have achieved very little in your working day?  By making a few small changes you can greatly change the way you work and how much you can achieve in a day.

​There are lots of things that you can do to help improve your productivity but these 10 top tips are a good starting point:
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1. Focus on the number of minutes in the day. There are 1,440 minutes in a day, so use them productively.
2. Set daily priorities – identify your most important tasks and focus on them completely for 2 hours at the start of the day.
3. Don’t use “To do lists” - schedule everything in your online calendar.
4. Make time for dinner with the family – schedule it in your diary/online calendar!
5. Use a notebook – clear your mind of detail – and then add the “to do’s” to your online calendar
6. Only check your email/social media accounts three times a day – schedule times throughout the day to read and respond to email.
7. Avoid meetings at all cost – only hold meetings if they are really needed and keep them short. 
8. Say “no” to almost everything – say no if it is outside your core area of work.
9. Follow the 80/20 rule – 80% of outcomes come from 20% of activities – so identify the 20% and ignore the rest.
10. Delegate or outsource almost everything – identify your key strengths, utilise them and outsource the rest to someone like Sunflower VA!

If you need help in your business to allow you to be more productive with your business Marketing then please get in touch with Sunflower VA.