14 Habits of Highly Productive People

And how you can easily build them

Being highly productive and effective over a long period is no coincidence. People who report being highly effective tend to have specific structures and habits that recur over different branches and fields of expertise.

One of the biggest mistakes of those who want to increase their productive outcome, however, is trying to implement several habits at once.

If you want to uplevel your performance, make sure to start with small, manageable changes, and further improve yourself by time. Instead of making significant changes at once and slipping to your old routines, start small. Tackle one habit after the other and make sure that those habits become a part of your identity.

Instead of fighting through the habit, allow them to make your life easier and more enjoyable.

Working hard is not fun if you don’t have a why.

Highly productive and effective people know what they are after. They have a clear mission and a vision regarding their or their companies future.

Knowing your life purpose is a huge productivity driver. Once you have a clear mission, you know where to invest your time and what to avoid, thus making decisions and being productive becomes easier.

Having a clear mission and vision doesn’t mean that you have full transparency on your path to success, yet, it becomes easier to take massive action and make progress. Without a mission, you will often find yourself struggling and not knowing what to focus on. A clear purpose, however, makes it easier to figure out what the next right step is and how to get there.

Productive people are those who can set clear priorities and focus on one thing after the other.

The surest way of not achieving your goals is having too many of them.

An endless list of to-dos might seem cool, and it might give you the feeling of being productive, but that’s hardly the truth. The more you can eliminate, the more effective you will be.

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