Making 2014 Your Most Productive Year Yet: The ONE Thing You Can Do Every Day by Laura Stack

Published: Thu, 12/05/13

Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro

"Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work." Stephen King, Author

Making 2014 Your Most Productive Year Yet: The ONE Thing You Can Do Every Day

I'm not a big believer in New Year's resolutions. Frustrated by bad habits like procrastination, disorganization, or a lack of exercise, many of us vow to change. We make a New Year's resolution such as, "This year, I'll walk on my treadmill three times a week!" By March, the treadmill is gathering dust down in the basement. Defeated, we give up further attempts to change.

Why does this happen? I believe it's because we don't make reasonable resolutions to begin with and thus fail to keep the ones we make. So people either stop setting goals (never a good choice), or they make resolutions that are ridiculously easy to keep. 
One Thing You Can Do every Day.

The solution? Stop focusing on massive gains. Instead, make it your goal in 2014 to improve 1% each day. If you can improve 1% each day, you'll double in ability roughly every 70 days!

Let's do the math: if you start out with $100 at the beginning of the year and you were able to increase what you have by 1% every single day, at the end of the year, you would have $3,778.34, which is $100 * (1 + 1%) to the power of 365. That is 37.78x what you had at the beginning of the year, not 365% (3.65x) better. 

 
Eliminate Time Wasters

  • Shorten a typical 45-minute meeting to 30.
  • Call someone instead of calling a meeting.
  • Look at an existing process and try to make it shorter.
  • Do something more important before you do something more pleasurable.
  • Integrate a new piece of technology.

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