Every businesswoman is a multitasker. While running a business, a woman is busy creating a work-life balance to keep a track of everything. By taking advantage of some creative productivity hacks and timetable techniques, a woman can learn how to be productive all day long.
If you struggle to stay focused while you are working, you need to change your mindset to be productive. Here are a few productivity tips and tricks which can help you stay productive throughout the day.
Boost Time Management Skills
When there is too much on the table, effective time management should be the top priority. You need to get a grip on your time and increase work efficiency quickly as time waits for none. In general, any organization runs on deadlines. One common mistake that you do is underestimating the amount of time you have to dedicate to a new project. To correct this:
- Write down tasks for the coming week
- Estimate the amount of time each task would take
- Prioritize your tasks as per the needs
- Record the actual amount of time it takes to complete each task
- Use the results to plan the schedule for the next week
Bring Greater Degree of Focus
George Lucas once said, “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” When it comes to running a business smoothly and efficiently, focus is the most crucial element. A lack of clear focus leads to scattered resources. To improve your focus:
- Reduce multitasking
- Choose to focus on the moment
- Take Short breaks
- Eliminate distractions
- Practice mindfulness and meditation
- Connect with nature
Be Confident
Confidence is all about believing in yourself and feeling comfortable in your true self. Confidence is not a rare skill, you can learn and train yourself to embrace it. To become a confident woman, you should:
- Spend more time with other confident women
- Start with small and achievable goals and then aim for bigger ones
- Use positive words in conversations
- Adopt a growth and learners mindset
- Ask questions & queries and seek clarification whenever required
- Empower yourself, no matter what the situation is
Focus on one task at a time
‘The quickest way to do many things is to do one thing at a time,’ says Christopher Westra. You can achieve almost anything in life if you focus on one thing at a time. Single-tasking results in better productivity and high-quality results more quickly. Focusing on one task at a time results in:
- Conserving energy
- Improving the attention span
- Improving the communication
- Promoting self-discipline
- Strengthening against distractions
Take Care of Yourself
It’s quite understandable that one needs to put aside one’s needs to build a career but neglecting the health eventually leads to a loss of productivity. Even in the midst of building a career, you have to take care of yourself. To maintain good health and take care of yourself, you need to:
- Get moving, incorporating more movement and activity in your day
- Set a healthy routine and stick to it
- Eat regularly, consume healthy fats, and eat high fiber foods
- Find ways to laugh to feel relaxed and rejuvenated
- Make time for friends, family, children, and other people who matter to you
Prepare A To-Do List
A to-do list is a list of tasks that you have to accomplish during a specific time period, let’s say, a day, a week, or even a portion of the day. Preparing a list of tasks helps in improving productivity and planning out your day in a more systematic way. Some tips to create a to-do list that works for you are:
- Take your time to plan the list
- Keep a brief of each task
- Prioritize your tasks
- Give yourself deadlines
- Be comfortable with revising the list
- Add extra buffer time between tasks to make it flexible
- Do some prep work in advance
Bring Work & Life Balance
As a female entrepreneur or a working woman, balancing work and family becomes very challenging. In order to boost productivity, you need to learn how to maintain a good balance between work and life. Here are some tips:
- Don’t be afraid to unplug; give space for inner thoughts and ideas to emerge
- Take a vacation when required to shut work completely off for a while
- Set boundaries for yourself and your teammates to avoid burnout
- Find a job that you are passionate about.
- Set achievable goals by implementing time management strategies
FINAL WORDS
The gap between men and women entrepreneurs is narrowing, however, women still have a long road to go. By bringing a greater degree of focus, inculcating time management, improving the work-life balance, preparing a good to-do list, and above all, taking care of yourself, you can boost your productivity to achieve skyrocketing heights.
