Ten good habits for improving work efficiency

It can be said with certainty that good habits can bring high efficiency. Let's share some classic and useful work habits. As you change, you can become an efficient employee.

In this ever-changing society, everyone is used to pursuing a faster, better, and more concise way of life and work. Therefore, the word "efficiency" is also quite popular.

It can be said with certainty that good habits can bring high efficiency. Let's share some classic and useful work habits. As you change, you can become an efficient employee.

Define Daily event (MIT)

Most important thing is the most important thing you need to do every day. Taking a few minutes every day to define the three-five most important things today can help improve your overall efficiency-after all, if you don't even know what is important, more importantly, how can we focus on important things efficiently?

Reject Multithreading

Supporting multithreading is now the standard for many devices, and people's lives are gradually influenced by this, and they tend to focus on multiple applications. However, scientists tell us that humans are not perfect for multi-threaded operations like machines. Every time they focus on one thing, they will help them complete their work efficiently and reduce the chance of errors.

Customize morning routine planning

For many people, if they spend the day on a regular and suitable schedule every morning, they can start a new day smoothly. If you exercise in the morning and have a full breakfast, the efficiency will be very high, then, focus on morning exercise and delicious breakfast in the morning routine planning to keep these factors active. Similarly, you can customize the afternoon plan or evening plan accordingly.

Simplified information sources to ensure efficient input

I have to say that this is an age of information explosion. Some people may not be able to put any newspaper in their hands, but may not miss all kinds of social media information. Where can all the overwhelming information be completely received? While Constantly absorbing, we often inadvertently input a lot of irrelevant and meaningless information.

So how can we make information input more efficient? First, streamline all kinds of information sources and leave the most important and most valuable information. Second, make full use of RSS subscription tools, such as hootsuite and other apps that support offline reading.

Concise output

When writing reports and emails, remember to be concise. The focus of direct targeting is the most efficient way to express your data. When writing an email, it is best to clearly express your meaning in five sentences.

Do important things

In the classic article "Seven Habits of high-performance people, the author Steven Covey shows four quadrants of time management-urgent, important, but important, urgent, and not urgent. We should spend the most time on things that are not urgent but important, so that we can ensure that important things have enough time to complete, instead of being in a rush.

Centralized processing of homogeneous tasks

Simply put, you can focus on the same thing at a certain time to avoid interruptions to your original workflow. You can view emails and text messages from time to time, which may interrupt your work. Centralized display at the planned time helps improve efficiency.

Delete and delegate

There are a lot of things to be done every day at work, but some are unnecessary and can be deleted; some can be done by means of tools and technology; some do not need your own supervision, it can be handed over to another suitable person.

Offline work

Networking is convenient, but there are also many interference factors. If you are easy to search for materials and watch a piece of news, you are advised to Work offline to ensure high efficiency.

First, "do not want to do anything 」

Put the last thing you don't want to do and the easiest to delay at the beginning. When all the things you don't want to do are done, they won't continue to disturb your work mood in your mind.

Please believe that to improve efficiency, you do not need to develop a complete, high-level system framework. You can also become a high-performance person by mastering these useful and time-consuming habits.

Bernard Marr, author of this article, translated from chuangzhi.