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Topic: 4 Misconception of Practice That Will Ruin Our Productivity?

We read a lot about improving productivity which I also read and written a few articles before this note on how to increase my efficiency in work and also dealing with daily chores. However, in this article, it mentioned that there are 4 misinterpretations of high productivity methods that we are not aware of. Let us look into it.

First, waking up can prompt us to complete more job. I am totally agreed to this that waking too early will not get me completing more jobs. If I have no proper planning and task list on what to do once I wake up, basically I will spend the morning dizzying and not sure what to do. Everyone has their own rhythm to work and we do not need to follow the main trend of waking up early and be productive. In university, there are a lot of my coursemates are more productive during the night. On the other hand, waking up will only make them worse in productivity. So be organic and know how our body can work optimally. Having freelance job is something great whereby we know how to arrange our working time according our rhythm of working efficiency. Increase productivity should be the main goal but not waking up early.

Second is using the most productive time of ours to work on important task. Nevertheless, Sarah Vanerman from Work from Om mentioned that it may not be as productive as we expect as there may be circumstances when we are disturbed by calls and messages. Therefore, we can follow her way of doing which is “40-10-10” rule. 40 minutes will be the time we focus on the job without picking up any calls or replying to any messages; 10 minutes for us to rest and reconfigure ourselves; the last 10 minutes is for replying all the messages and calls. This could improve the quality of focus time which we can be more productive.

Third, be aware on which way of communication is the most efficient. Messaging is definitely not a very efficient one as it contains limited information based on how much word we typed. There are certain patience levels for a reader to finish reading a long essay even like this one which drastically reduce the productivity of the other person. Therefore, we can share our idea through phone calling or share it by doodling on papers or whiteboards.

Forth, a high productive person can take up more jobs is wrong concept where according to Don Scott, for those who are with high productivity, they will overestimate themselves and take up more jobs that they can handle. Being optimistic is not a bad thing, but ruining our own productivity is something not appealing to all. Therefore, we need to balance our roles on hand and calibrate it with our available time and capable productivity. Over burden ourselves will only get us into a negative cycle and nothing will be done in the end.

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