4 Simple Steps To Boost Your Productivity and Become A Happier Person.

I’ve already written some piece on this blog on how to boost your productivity.  And I think you should spend some time reading that post, particularly as its still early in the year.  I believe that, if well taken, the contents of that post could well mean the difference between an ordinary year, and an extraordinary one.

In this current post, I want to show you 4 simple steps to boost your productivity and become a happier person.

Are you overwhelmed by your pile of daily chores?  Are you regularly depressed by the disorder, and chaos that characterize your life? Do you feel useless and unproductive? Do you want an easy and simple way to boost your productivity and become a happier person?

Well, here’s a simple 4-step solution for you. ENJOY!

#1.  Get a productivity coach

This can be anybody who cares enough for your productivity, happiness, and well-being as to invest the time to help you get order back into your life.
He or she could be your spouse, a friend, your boss, member of staff, colleague, pastor, sibling, and so on. The important thing is that they care genuinely and deeply about your welfare and happiness

#2. Get the clutter out chunk by chunk

Don’t try to get it all out at once! Take it bit by bit, poco a poco, day by day, a little here, and a little there.

The best way is by using a simple and very brief ‘to-do’ list.  Your productivity coach should work with you in this area and help you assign priority to your to-do list.  Both of you should endeavour to keep the list very brief.  I would encourage a list of not more than 6 items.  It is better to keep it simple and easily achievable per day, than try to make an impression only to fall short.

It is usually good to compile this list and fine tune it just before you sleep, then read it again and again before you sleep.  I don’t fully understand why looking at your to-do list just before sleeping in the night is so effective. But when you do it, you will notice a greater capacity and drive to accomplish the items on the list.

#3. Stay accountable.

Remember your productivity coach?
Good. Send him or her a daily report – of course via email, facebook, and so on -  on how you performed with respect to the list.
Include a list of your to do for the next day.

#4. Reward yourself.

Celebrate your accomplishments regardless of how ‘trivial’ they might seem when compared to that of others who are ‘changing the world.’

Buy something nice for yourself, or take yourself out. Hang out with a special friend. Just do something fun as a reward to yourself for your success.

Little things, consistently done over time, gradually accumulate into large things that can then be leveraged over and over and over again to create even bigger and more significant accomplishments.

I pray that these 4 simple steps will help you boost your productivity and become a happier and more fulfilled person.