How to Achieve More in Less Time

Dear friend,

The single most important secret of becoming more productive is to focus your attention and energy on the things that matters most to your success. The faster you increase your success rate, the easier for you to achieve high productivity both in your personal life and at work.

The evidence of productivity is results and achieving positive result can be a daunting task particularly when you don’t know how. To increase your productivity and achieve more in less time, you need to ask and provide the right answer to the following four questions:

1. What are my highest value activities?

What are the things that you do that contribute the greatest value to your work? If you are not sure, make a list of all of your tasks and responsibilities and take them to your boss or someone you can be accountable to. Discuss them with your colleagues and co-workers. You must be absolutely and crystal clear about the most important results that are expected of you. Remember, the very worst use of time is to do very well in areas that are of no value to your line of duty.

2. What are your key result areas?

What are the results that you absolutely, positively have to get in an excellent fashion to fulfill your responsibilities and do your job well?
There are seldom more than five to seven key result areas in any job. Your first responsibility is to identify these key results, to set standards of excellent performance for each result area. You then dedicate yourself to working every day to perform to those standards. What gets measured gets done. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.

3. What can I and only I do that, if done well, will make a real difference to my company?

There is only one answer to this question at any given time. This is a job that you and only you can do. If you don’t do it, it won’t get done. No one else can do it for you. But if you do it, and do it well, it can make a significant contribution to your company and your career. What is it?

4. What is the most valuable use of my time?

This is the most important question in time management. You should ask and answer this question every hour of every day. What is the most valuable use of your time, right now? The asking and answering of this question alone is the key to peak performance. Whatever your answer to this question, be sure that you are working on this particular task every minute of every hour. Compared with this task, everything else is a relative waste of time.

Engage your mind and find answers to the above questions in other to increase your productivity and get more done in less time.

Do you have any more clues of how to achieve more in less time? If yes please share it via the comment box below.

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