We could all be more productive. Between the daily deluge of digital distractions and our own bad habits and human fallibility, there is probably room for improvement somewhere.
With endless articles online offering productivity advice, how to separate the wheat from the chaff? We brought some method to the madness. We scoured hundreds of articles online and found the top 100 most frequently cited tips. We then ranked them using their overall score on the below stats.
The result? The definitive top 100 productivity hacks. Which ones work for you?
Definitive 100 Most Useful Productivity Hacks
- Time-boxing
- Prioritise
- Say no
- Move!
- Control your devices
- Take short breaks
- To-do lists
- Eat well
- 2-minute rule
- Control social media
- Choose when to check your email
- Organize your workspace
- Start earlier
- Breathe
- Turn off alerts
- Shorter meetings
- Site blockers
- Productivity tools
- Plan ahead
- Single-tasking
- Write it down
- Break tasks down
- 8020 rule
- Be true to yourself
- Avoid visual distractions
- Sleep
- Run meetings well
- Batch similar tasks
- Fewer meetings
- Focus on outcomes
- Effective above efficient
- Delegate
- Ignore the news
- Change the scenery
- Long breaks
- Time yourself
- Be positive
- Follow up after meetings
- One small change
- Flow
- Drink water
- Drink coffee responsibly
- Make a public commitment
- Acknowledge your success
- Don’t reread emails
- Help others in meetings
- Be on time
- Kill your darlings
- Work from home
- Productive procrastination
- Your biological prime time
- Find time for yourself
- Be realistic
- Set clear goals
- Just start
- Devices in Meetings
- Break bad habits
- Love your job
- Show compassion
- Focus on the present
- Systemise
- Start and end on time
- Get ergonomic
- Use your commute
- Unplug
- Meeting roles
- Do not do to-do lists
- 10,000 hours
- Find lost hours
- Short- and long-term goals
- Visualise success
- Reward yourself
- Rituals
- Eric Schmidt’s “9 Rules of Email”
- Be flexible
- Log all your ideas
- Take control when you can
- Make work fun again
- Natural light
- Learn to touch type properly
- Listen actively
- Inbox Zero
- Voicemail
- Templates
- Hard stuff first
- Close open loops in your head
- Waiting-on list
- Deprioritize the non-essential
- Reply by…
- Control your inbox
- Wear a uniform
- Set deadlines
- Assign a ‘Task Deputy’
- Password manager
- Schedule “stress” time
- Five goals
- Convert emails to to-dos
- Old-school alarm clocks
- Chewing gum
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