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Are You Losing Productivity without Realizing It?
3 sneaky leaks that drain your productivity and how to fix them
Are you tired of being tired? Do you ever feel like you’re spinning your wheels and going nowhere? Is time flying by faster than the speed of light?
Most of us can probably say yes to at least one, if not all, of these questions. It’s frustrating and demotivating to work diligently only to see meager results when we crawl away from our desks at the end of the day. How many times have you come back the next morning with a teeth-grinding resolve that you will buckle down, buck up, and accomplish something that day?
How’d that work for you?
Maybe the solution isn’t to work harder. Maybe you need to find and plug areas where your productivity is leaking away, slow drip by slow drip. Here are 3 common areas that affect your ability to be productive without you recognizing it’s happening.
Not my circus, not my monkey
The title of this section is a proverb, ascribed to Poland. When it comes to productivity, an interruption is a monkey. It might be a small monkey — someone needing a quick answer to a question — or a big monkey — solving a complicated problem, running an errand, or doing a favor for someone. Regardless…
