How to Always be Productive
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to remain productive in a world with endless distractions. This rings true whether you’re striving for productivity at work or elsewhere. Regardless of the time of day, it seems there are coutless things vying for our attention at almost any moment.
In addition to needing to remain attentive on a single task to be productive I’ve also noticed that productivity seems to allude me with tasks that seem large or daunting to start. Because of this, I’ve worked out a simple way to help me overcome this obstacle that’s rather simple.
Whenever I’m faced with needing to start my engine of productivty, I break down the task at hand to the smallest unit that can be considered “productive”. This helps me get the ball rolling by tackling something that’s miniscule and builds momentum to for tackling future tasks each larger than the last.
I’ve also found this approach to be particularly helpful to remain productive in my day to day work as a software engineer. Especially when writing code, it’s easy to break down a task to the smallest accomplishable unit of work. When doing this, I like to keep track of anything that might distract me, like renaming a variable, refactoring a method, or otherwise, and take note of it somewhere.
Doing this allows me to remain focused on accomplishing what I initially set out to achieve while simultaneously giving me other small achievable units that I can focus on afterwards. An added benefit of this type of thinking is that it lends itself to producing small code changes which are valuable for a myriad of reasons we’ve previously discussed.
After settling into a nice groove of accomplishing smaller subtasks you’ll be surpised at the confidence that quickly builds allowing you to tackle larger items on your todo list whether that be on the job or elsewhere. Don’t take my word for it, try this approach yourself and let me know in the comments what it helped you accomplish today!
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