Comments on: Productivity Boosters

By: Waqas

Waqas — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:53:26 +0000

A very important productivity boosting method is actually to make note of the way you are spending your time. You can actually add that to the list of tasks and later evaluate the time the task took you.

The result should be a basic analysis of how you have spent your time and how you could use tools/help to reduce that time. If you can measure the income effect of that time then that would actually be a great help because you can then focus on tasks/clients that result in greater sales/customer satisfaction and think about delegating/outsourcing the remaining tasks

By: Damien Clarke

Damien Clarke — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:08:21 +0000

Hi Vera

Good points – I’ll add another one that has been critical to my home business success.

#4 Establish a Routine.

I have worked from home for the past 5 years while looking after my two children since they were born and if I did not establish a routine I would have crashed and burned very quickly. A routine was not only good for me but very beneficial to my kids as it enabled us to plan for your point #3 Take a Break – this is very very important. There are times when I do have to work, but then there are times that we all take a break and have some fun.

Hope my comment adds a little bit of advice to your readers.

Regards
Damien

By: Jian

Jian — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:38:16 +0000

Thanks for the tips. You really discussed each details. I will bookmark this for reference.

By: Paul the accountant

Paul the accountant — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:07:00 +0000

I am always getting distracted with emails and phone calls, found my productivity sky rocketed when I just logged out email until I got a task done before checking again.

By: Santas Christmas Vacation

Santas Christmas Vacation — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:42:07 +0000

Re: #2 – Write a list.
a colleague of mine wrote so detailed lists, that it took him 30 minutes in the evening to write them and also 30 minutes in the mornign to update them with things that happened over night. – The gain in productivity was questionable. So focus on thte important things on the llist.

re #1 – Stay focused.:
I my home office, I got distracted by noise (in the house and from outside), so i moved the office into the cellar. – now it is quite, cool and i also don’t get distracted by looking out of the window.