75 Powerful Productivity Tips to Make You Super Efficient

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Focus on a couple that you need most right now! Pin an infographic and return later for more.

Turn off email, cell phones, and any other distractions so you can focus on one task at a time.

50 productivity tips to boost your brainpower

Know when to delegate; know what you do well and what you don’t to help you stay focused and be more productive.

Chew a stick of gum to help you stick to a task and become faster and more accurate doing it.

Automate tedious tasks. Try scheduling Pinterest pins with Tailwind.

Perform concentration exercises to improve your ability to focus.

Write down your distracting thoughts on your “someday list” so you can forget them.

Reward yourself for sticking to a task until it’s completed.

Nip procrastination in the bud. Set up a routine to follow for tasks that you often procrastinate on.

If it’s not critical, don’t do it perfectly.

If it's not critical, don't do it perfectly.

Don’t multitask by switching between one project and another. Multitasking can reduce productivity.

Be present when you are with others. Don’t look at your cell phone, email or social media updates.

Take advantage of phone and computer apps to keep you organized and productive.

Make time for fun and laughter to increase your memory. A good memory improves focus and concentration.

Learn to give up what’s not really important to be more productive. Are you willing to pay someone else to do it? If not, why are you doing it?

Combine low value tasks. Run all your short errands at the same time. Make all your phone calls in one sitting.

If it takes less than 2 minutes, do it now.

Use templates for recurring tasks. These easy design tools offer a huge variety of graphics templates.

Keep a single minded focus on what you are working on at the time. Don’t think about what is coming later.

Set up your daily tasks the day before. Set up your top 6 priorities and when you will work on them.

Stick to your commitments. Don’t let others distract you when you are committed to working on something.

Use your mornings to focus on you. Meditate, read the paper, eat a healthy breakfast.

Take one day a week to recover, refuel and regenerate your mind and body.

Learn to say no to distractions in order to increase your productivity.

Cut out tasks that don’t help you reach your goals.

Cut out tasks that don't help you reach your goals.

Turn off email, cell phones, and any other distractions so you can focus on one task at a time.

Set deadlines for important goals. This will force you to work harder and more effectively as you get closer to the deadline.

Make it a habit to touch paper only once. When you sort your mail, be sure to file it, trash it or pay it.

Create a “Stop Doing It” list. Put things on here you can outsource, no longer need to do, or no longer interest you.

Become completely aware of when you start doing a task, and become aware of the urge to do something else in the middle of it.

Keep a short 1-3 item list of tasks to do each day. These should be your “Most Important Tasks” list.

Don’t do anything else before doing the first thing on your short list. That includes email, social media and everything else.

Learn to single-task. Keep things focused and effective by single-tasking. Focus on one task until it’s done.

Do creative work first, while you’re fresh and inspired.

Do creative work first, while you're fresh and inspired.

Be more productive by taking a short break at least once an hour. This keeps your mind fresh and awake.

What do you focus on that’s absolutely essential? What isn’t as important? Figure out your top priorities to be more productive.

Drop one feature that doesn’t need to be in your project, do one less service, or do one fewer project at a time to get laser focused.

A short walk can be a fabulous boost to your focus, productivity, and clarity of mind. It helps your health and waistline, too.

Set aside time to deal with any worries you have. Don’t bring them to your work area when you are trying to focus on a task.

Shift between high and low attention tasks to give your brain a boost after you’ve been concentrating hard.

Plug in your headphones to listen to peaceful music while you focus on the task at hand.

Break big tasks into bite-sized pieces.

Do focus exercises to increase your focus. Focus for one minute on one task. Repeat until your focus becomes longer.

If you’re feeling unfocused and sleepy, get moving! Outside is best, to get fresh air.

Use supplements to help you focus. The Vitamin B complex group as well as Vitamin D and Lecithin all promote brain health.

Eat superfoods like berries, walnuts, spinach and avocados to improve your concentration.

Use the Pomodoro technique to help you stay focused. Choose one task to focus on for 25 minutes and then take a 5 minute break.

Take your time and work steadily to get the job done. Work at a pace that allows you to get through your work without stress.

Use technology to your advantage. Online tools and apps for smartphones can keep your lists, goals organized. Evernote is one to try.

Do some exercises that are aimed purely at boosting your concentration, like reading a paragraph over and over.

Drink more water to keep hydrated. Dehydration can make you lethargic and have a lack of focus.

Wiggle your toes. This mindfulness trick brings you back to what you’re working on if your mind begins to wander.

Set aside time to deal with any worries you have. Don’t bring them to your work area when you are trying to focus on a task.

25 productivity quotes

“Time management is about life management.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“What we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.”
― David Allen

“Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
― Stephen King

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.”
― Bruce Lee

“Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”
― Corita Kent

“It’s not always that we need to do more but rather that we need to focus on less.”
― Nathan W. Morris

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Touch paper only once.”
― Robert Allen

“Touch paper only once.” ― Robert Allen

“Where your attention goes, your time goes.”
― Idowu Koyenikan

“My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do.”
― Francine Jay

“You don’t actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it ‘done’.”
― David Allen

“If you have time to whine then you have time to find solution.”
― Dee Dee Artner

“…you cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.”
― Brian Tracy

Eat the biggest frog first. ― Brian Tracy

“To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.”
― Corita Kent

“Productivity = Discipline + Planning + Quality”
― Haresh Sippy

“Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that’s impeding forward motion.”
― David Allen

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The Sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus”
― Alexander Graham Bell

“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”
– Pablo Picasso

“Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.”
― Leo Babauta

“Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.” ― Leo Babauta

“Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.”
– Peter Drucker

“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.”
― Tom Peters

“Tell me to what you pay attention, and I will tell you who you are.”
– Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Don’t interpret anything too much. This is time waster number 1.”
― Dee Dee Artner

“You have a limited amount of time to get things done during the course of a given day. It follows that you should limit the scope of your to-do list to accommodate this constraint. If you only have four hours at your disposal, make sure the items on your to-do list can be completed within that time frame. Otherwise, you’ll set yourself up for failure.”
― Damon Zahariades

“Multitasking is a lie.”
― Gary Keller, The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results

“Multitasking is a lie.” ― Gary Keller