How to reduce your productivity
Few things are as critical to your personal success as your productivity. You can have brilliant ideas and be great at convincing people. However, if you don't put the famous "horsepower to the road," it will all peter out.
If you're wondering how to increase your productivity (and hopefully you do on an ongoing basis), you'll probably fall back on tactical tips like goal setting, avoiding distractions, and more, as most do.
These tips are important, too, but they often come to naught if some foundations aren't in place. What do I mean by that?
Well, applying measures to increase productivity almost always requires a change in existing habits. And these habit changes are always difficult if the foundations I mentioned above are not strong enough.
So without these foundations, you are deliberately lowering your productivity. Here are the three typical "suspects":
- Too little sleep. It's a simple truth, proven many times over by science, that if we don't get 7 to 8 hours of good sleep, we won't be fully productive. Anything less is an illusion. The problem is that even with sleep deficits, you can get by just fine, but you will always be less productive than you would be with enough sleep.
- Wrong food. What we physically let into our bodies largely determines our physical and mental performance. It's simple: eating light and healthy increases your productivity. You can take this into account in your eating decisions or ignore it.
- Unfavorable environment. Everything that goes on in your environment has an impact on your performance. The environment is basically determined by people, events and things. You can and must actively shape all three categories if you want to increase your productivity. More on this elsewhere (and in my "100-Day Success Sprint" program).
Whenever you're ready, let's talk about how you can systematically increase your productivity. Just schedule a 20-minute call here.