How To Be Productive With 9 Easy Tips

Wondering how to be more productive in your daily life? If you are a girl boss struggling with accomplishing your tasks, efficiency, concentration, and general productivity, this blog is absolutely for you. Here are the nine easy tips to help you be more productive, efficient, and achieve goals in your daily life.

What is Productivity?

In most cases, people fail to understand that productivity is all about efficiency, time management, and rest rather than looking busy. Therefore, being productive means getting your work done in the shortest amount of time through planning, automating tasks, avoiding distractions, decluttering, and taking time to rest.

I noticed is that workplaces tend to gauge people’s success by how busy they look and how late they stay at work, rather than how efficiently they have completed their tasks. However, when it comes to blogging, I prefer the opposite because I measure productivity by how efficiently I’ve completed my weekly tasks, created free time for myself, and been present at the moment with my loved ones. (5 Reasons Why Working Late is Bullsh*t)

Also, remember that life is not all about working, but a perfect balance of creating time to spend with yourself and loved ones. Therefore, here are the nine easy tips to help you learn how to be productive and efficient so that you can have more time to do things you love other than work and school.

The 9 Easy Tips On How To Be Productive Daily In Life

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1. Create A Daily Routine Schedule To Be Productive

Having a set schedule for home, work and personal life is the first step to take to be productive.

Most of the time, people are not productive in their daily life because they do not know the specific thing they should be doing at the moment.

Also, when planning and creating a schedule to be productive, I usually resort to my tried and true method: The Golden Rule Of 3 SMART Goals

In short, the golden rule of three means intentionally simplifying and setting your goals in life into small digestible bite-sized layered ideas.

Generally, it encourages you to take a step back, breathe in, breath out, and prioritize the only three things you need to accomplish this year, this month, and today. (Related blog: How to Set Goals for Yourself using SMART Golden Rule of 3)

2. Create A Routine

After you have established your monthly schedule, ensure to create a rough draft routine. Intentionally plan your sleep times, waking up times, weekend schedule, and break times. Additionally, know what specific activities make you feel a lot more productive in your daily life. Such as taking showers in the morning, waking up to the smell of fresh brewing coffee, dressing up before work, nightly skincare routine, no alarms on the weekends, etc.

Once you know your morning, evening, and weekend routines, you will find that your daily life is a lot more productive. (Here are 5 Steps to Create a Personalized Daily Routine)

3. Create Boundaries

To enhance productivity, set clear personal and social boundaries around your daily work schedule, home life, or studying. For clarification, setting boundaries is not about being rigid with your time but about setting clear expectations. It’s also about giving time to the people who deserve it most, including yourself.

And that is why it is good to set your monthly schedule first. This is so that you can be able to communicate your availability with people in advance. In addition, planning for meet-ups, dates, and social events ahead of time makes you less flaky. We all become good friends when we also respect other people’s time as much as they respect ours. In summary, plan for activities, clearly communicate your intentions with people (yes, no, maybe), and respect other people’s time. ( Here are 10 Ways to Build and Preserve Better Boundaries)

4. Automate & Delegate Tasks

To be productive every day you need to automate tasks that don’t require you directly to complete. For example, you can:

• Start paying bills automatically.
• Get a Roomba robot to clean your house.
• Use social media apps to automatically post your pictures on Instagram and Pinterest.
• Bulk meal prep instead of cooking every day.
• (Here are 5 Ways You Can Automate Your Life To Save Time And Get Things Done)

In addition, make sure to delegate any tasks that you do not enjoy doing anymore. Look at the opportunity cost of doing task A over task B. For example, get a house cleaner so that you can use that time to work on a paid sponsorship blog. Other examples include: getting your groceries delivered, getting a personal stylist, hiring a personal assistant, hiring a CPA to do your taxes, etc. (Here are the 7 Top Tips for Delegating Household Cleaning Chores Successfully)

5. Eliminate Distractions

It is good to identify your time wasters that affect productivity every day. Once you find your time wasters, take it upon yourself to minimize usage and claim your time back. For example, the biggest time-waster we all know is social media. (Here are 12 Easy Ways to Beat Social Media Distraction Effectively)

Have you ever found yourself scrolling mindlessly through Instagram reels or TikTok? Wow! 3 hours unconsciously goes by without your knowledge. What a time-waster? That time could be a short intimate trip with your boyfriend or editing a youtube video for your creative venture. As a resort, social media detox can be one of the best options for you to learn how to control your usage and claim your time back. (Here is The Miracle Of Social Media Detox You Have To Experience)

In addition, here is a list of the top 20 time wasters you should be on the lookout for.

6. Declutter Your Space

Another consideration that you’re not being productive daily, is perhaps your space is very cluttered and unflattering. Basically, how does your workspace look? Is it clean or dirty? Is it bright or dingy? Does it enhance productivity or make you want to cringe? Nevertheless, focus on your mood colors by knowing what colors makes you want to be productive. I promise it works. (Here is How to Declutter Your Home, Room by Room)

For example, I have noticed that my productivity is boosted by a bright, organized, and airy workspace. Moreover, my mood colors are whites, blush pink, tan, gold, and grey tones. Therefore, to ensure that I set myself up to be productive, I clean my workspace after work. Mostly, this is so that when I come back to work in the morning, everything is fresh and nicely placed for me to start the day. In addition, I ensure to buy a white desk for my home office and decorate the space with gold, grey, and blush accents. (Here are the Best Desk Setup for Productivity with 8 Incredible Tips) (Productivity and Ergonomics: The Best Way to Organize Your Desk)

Here are some of my office picks.

So figure out how you can declutter and clean up your work area, study area, or home to motivate you to be productive. ( Here are “No Brainer” Things To Toss During a Home Office Declutter Session)

7. Feel Free Move Location And Find Your Best Productivity Time

Honestly, this is such an unpopular opinion, but I am a true believer that you should work where you feel most productive. You don’t have to be strictly in an office setting to get work done. For example, if you cannot concentrate on studying and be productive in the quiet library, how about you go to a coffee shop instead? In my case, I wrote the best university papers cozy in my bed at around 4 am. Mostly it’s because that was the best time and place I felt most creative. (Here are 11 Productive Places You Should Try Working In)

Therefore, to enhance productivity at school, home, and work, take the time to learn your creative hour and location for every task. For example, Sunday afternoon might be the best time for cleaning, Monday morning might be best for writing a blog, and evening time might be best for a short workout.

8. Create Time For Self Care

It is essential to create time for yourself and your mental health to be productive studying, home life, or work life. Therefore, schedule a time in your calendar to do self-care activities such as daily workouts, monthly hot yoga, or a pedicure and manicure. These simple lifestyle activities increase productivity because it breaks the cycle of work work work. Moreover, making healthy lifestyle choices always makes you want to do better. Have you ever felt so much more excited to crunch more numbers at work because you got your nails done? Yes, me too!

If you haven’t noticed you get more excited to be productive at school or work when you rest and break up your daily routine.

9. Find Something Random To Do When You’re Bored

When your daily productivity is affected, finding random activities is essential. Therefore, always have a list of fun activities so that you are not wasting time being idle. When you don’t feel productive at home, maybe you can find your next summer hairstyle on youtube. In addition, when you don’t feel productive at work, perhaps you can clean out your inbox. Lastly, when you are not productively studying, maybe you can make your gym playlist. (Here is a list of 99 productive things to do when you’re bored).

Last thoughts on how to be Productive daily

Whether you are wondering how to be productive at home, work, studying, or daily life in general, I hope you have learned tips and tricks that you can implement in your life today.

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