Fundamentals of Personal Effectiveness

Feeling overwhelmed? Learn how to make choices about how you spend your effective time. Few tips.

1. Harness Energy and Focus:?Identify your peak mental hours and schedule your most challenging tasks during this time. Protect this prime time from interruptions and avoid routine tasks that don’t require much effort, ensuring you make the most of your productive periods.
2. Defeat Distractions:?Recognise and eliminate common distractions such as emails, social media alerts, and news headlines. Turn off notifications for 45 minutes each hour and dedicate the last 15 minutes to checking messages.?
3. Boost Productivity: Prioritize your tasks and track the time each one takes. Experiment with techniques like timeboxing, where you allocate specific time blocks for tasks, and batch processing, where you handle similar tasks together. Avoid multitasking, as it reduces efficiency and increases the time needed to complete tasks.
4. Overcome Time Pressure: Develop good work-life habits and address time sinks caused by bad processes, miscommunication, and low-value tasks. Focus on improving daily habits like sleep, diet, and exercise.

Concepts inspired by Harvard Business School Publishing.