There’s a direct link between productivity and income.
Common sense tells you the more productive you are, the more income you’ll make, but there’s not really a common outline on how to be more productive.
I’ve had a strong focus on productivity ever since I was young, and there are 4 secrets I use every day to boost my productivity.
Are you ready to double your income with 4 simple secrets?
It’s natural to get distracted while you’re working on a task. It doesn’t matter if it’s a work task or a personal task, the distractions will always find you.
But using these 4 secrets can completely change your mindset, and push you to doubling your income, so you can live a stress-free life.
Before you jump in, you must be willing to admit that improvements could be made in all the results your tasks produce.
With that in mind, here are the 4 secrets to produce your most productive habits:
Secret #1
Set concrete goals.
You need to split your goal-setting techniques into two different categories: long-term and short-term.
Your long-term goals will clarify exactly where you want to be in 5 or 10 years, and you must remind yourself of these goals before every task you complete.
Your short-term goals will cover the tasks you need to complete each hour, day, or week.
You should concentrate only on the task that you’re currently taking on before thinking about anything else.
Secret #2
Distractions are the number 1 productivity-killer for any task or goal.
During your tasks, you must block out all distracting noises.
It seems obvious, but using noise cancelling headphones while you work can increase your productivity, and in turn improve the results that matter.
You may even want to go as far as listening to certain types of audio—although any sort of vocal tracks or spoken words will distract you.
Ambience is the best form of audio for completing your tasks in full. Websites like asoftmurmur.com are great tools for this kind of distraction-elimination, as it has a wide array of focus sounds to ensure that you’re not distracted by outside noise.
Secret #3
The hardest part of any task is being able to efficiently arrange your thoughts. If your ides aren’t organized, the task could end up being pushed back hours, days, or even weeks.
The best way to combat this is by writing out any thoughts or ideas you may have in approaching your task, no matter how small or obvious they may be.
Being able to see your thoughts written out on a page will help in keeping a uniform vision as you approach your task.
If you want to take this one step further and ensure that your notes are with you wherever you go, there are some great tools available—such as Evernote—that allow you to take notes on any of your devices (laptop, mobile phone, etc.) and share them with all your other devices.
Secret #4
Another major culprit for distraction is emails. More specifically, the timing that they come in.
If you receive emails that you need to take care of but end up forgetting about them if you leave them too long, then this tool is vital for your productivity.
Simply by rescheduling your emails you’ll be able to receive them at more convenient times, and you’ll be reminded that you must take care of them.
Most email services will have a “reschedule” option. If you’re using Gmail, Boomerang (by Google) is a great tool for accomplishing this.
You can set up the exact time and day when the email will appear in your account again as an unread message.
Using these 4 simple secrets together will improve your productivity to the best it’s ever been.
The habits you’ll passively create will see that your results are infinitely better, and you’ll start to see that your income will start to trend upwards, reaching and even surpassing the 2x mark.
