4-day week: An unpleasant truth

Lately I've been reading more and more about the idea of the 4-day work week and its positive effect on productivity: people manage more in 4 days than they did in 5 days before.

I find the reasoning behind this fascinating: you focus better when you have less time available.

So, I ask myself a very simple question: What does that have to do with 4 or 5 days? Why not switch to the 2-day week for the same reason?

Let's be serious: If we can focus better in 4 days, we can also do it in 5 days.

Our performance has very little to do with external circumstances and a great deal to do with our internal desire for high productivity.

Here are three ideas on how you and your team can become significantly more productive, whether you work 3, 4, 5 or 6 days a week:

1. Tight deadlines. Set tight time horizons. For example, I write these impulses in the 10 minutes I spend waiting for my next train at the station. Works like a charm! Others read Facebook while I'm producing.
2. Standards. Most of us have no clear idea of our own identity: Who exactly do we want to be? Role models often help. When in doubt, I always ask myself, "What would an Elon Musk or Richard Branson do right now?" The answer is usually quite simple: the most productive work.
3. Fun. Perhaps you would have expected the third point to be "discipline." The longer I study the topics of top performance, the more I am convinced that fun and enjoyment are much stronger drivers for high productivity than pure discipline. The important thing here is the combination with the first two points.

So, increase your productivity dramatically, whether 4 or 5 days a week! Here is an online training: The 100 DAY SUCCESS CHALLENGE

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