BEST Productivity tip to try today!

Do Not Check Email Until One Large Task Is Completed.

Is it our activities, not our productivities that are actually the reason that we are staying at the office well past the time we should be going home? Often times, checking our email is not a top priority, but instead, our clever way of looking for something more interesting than the task at hand or delaying the start of something more important. It is easy to spend thirty minutes here and twenty minutes there on email, but how much is actually being accomplished when we're doing that? We all know the eighty/twenty rule, which states that twenty percent of our efforts produce eighty percent of our results. It's important to consider that twenty percent of an eight hour day is ninety-six minutes, which is time that easily gets spent clicking around our inbox with our morning cup of coffee. This week, when you get to the office, knock out one of your biggest to-dos for the day before checking your email. You will thrive off of the accomplished feeling in knowing it's only 10:00am and you already finished one large task!

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