{"id":4658,"date":"2014-06-27T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghostblogwriters.com\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2014-06-27T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T15:00:34","slug":"entrepreneur-hacks-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghostblogwriters.com\/entrepreneur-hacks-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Entrepreneur Hacks To Stay Focused And Productive"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3792\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3792\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3792\" src=\"https:\/\/ghostblogwriters.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dayne-Shuda-2013-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Dayne Shuda\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3792\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Use these hacks to get more done.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s a struggle for most people to stay focused during work.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, there seem to be a few super humans out there with the ability to stay really focused on what they&#8217;re doing. I&#8217;ve been trying to hone my skills at being focused on the single thing I&#8217;m doing when I&#8217;m doing it.<\/p>\n<p>I used to have the mindset that multitasking as the best thing to do for productivity. But more on this later.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some entrepreneurs hacks for staying focused and productive. It&#8217;s more important for entrepreneurs because there are a ton of tasks you have and that can get overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found that the following hacks can help to make it seem like you have way more time than you used to. I think they can help you too.<\/p>\n<h2>1. Kill Multi-Tasking, Embrace Single-Tasking<\/h2>\n<p>This is the biggest one that has worked for me. As I mentioned earlier, I used to try to be the multi-tasking king. I thought it was a badge of honor to do everything at once.<\/p>\n<p>Then I realized that I wasn&#8217;t getting things done and the work I was doing was not good.<\/p>\n<p>Now I try to have a laser-like focus while working on something. If I&#8217;m writing a post, i&#8217;m only writing a post. If I&#8217;m working on emails, I&#8217;m only working on emails.<\/p>\n<p>And it extends to other areas of my life. If I&#8217;m driving, I&#8217;m driving. If I&#8217;m talking to my wife, I&#8217;m talking to my wife. The same with dinner and all other things.<\/p>\n<p>It can be an adjustment for you and for those around you, but once you&#8217;re used to it (and they&#8217;re used to it) you&#8217;ll notice the results. The quality of your time improves.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Start With A Big Picture View<\/h2>\n<p>When you&#8217;re working in your business\u00a0it&#8217;s usually all you can do to get to the next day. There are so many little tasks and they can consume your day. You&#8217;ll be busy just getting through each day.<\/p>\n<p>That process can kill your business.<\/p>\n<p>Take a step back and look at your company from the big picture view. Start at the &#8220;end&#8221; of your business. Think about where you want to go. It might be $1 billion in revenue or maybe it&#8217;s $200,000\/year in income for you.<\/p>\n<p>Start there and work you way back on what you have to do to get there. You&#8217;ll find that once you have the vision in place it&#8217;s easier to fill in the big and small things you need to do to get there.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll work all the way back to your day-to-day work and that&#8217;s when we get to the next step.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Prioritize Daily Tasks<\/h2>\n<p>When you work all the way back to your daily tasks you&#8217;ll probably realize that you&#8217;re doing some things that just aren&#8217;t necessary.<\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest challenges as an entrepreneur is that you can only do so many things. You can only do so many online marketing initiatives. I&#8217;d like to think that it would be a business blog, but that&#8217;s not the case for every business. For you, it might be investing in email marketing and online advertising.<\/p>\n<p>For GBW, it&#8217;s blogging, but we really only focus on blogging. It&#8217;s the top priority for us.<\/p>\n<p>With this step you&#8217;ll learn that some things are really important and other things aren&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of this will be hard. I realized that I didn&#8217;t have time to talk on the phone with clients. Some clients liked this and I liked talking with them, but email was the most efficient and most important for most clients. So I had to cut out calls and stick only with email whenever possible.<\/p>\n<p>That freed up lots of time and improved the business too.<\/p>\n<h2>4. Work In Short Bursts<\/h2>\n<p>This one is kind of unique, but it works for me.<\/p>\n<p>It started when I was blogging. I would put in a good 20 minute session of researching or writing. Then I&#8217;d kind of take a breather. I would literally exhale and go read a news article or watch a YouTube video or something. I like checking in on the PGA Tour highlights and videos on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>That kills about 5 minutes. Then it&#8217;s back for another 20 minute burst with more on the blog post or maybe answering an email that popped in the inbox.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to keep me refreshed. Otherwise I would be working nonstop and would get worn out faster.<\/p>\n<h2>5.\u00a0Only Work During Work Hours<\/h2>\n<p>This one was the toughest to do, but it&#8217;s had incredible return. I basically am punched in from about 6 AM to 4 PM. The biggest change was that I don&#8217;t check my work or personal email before 6 AM or after 4 PM anymore. It&#8217;s been incredible. It was really tough, but it has been great.<\/p>\n<p>I used to check email right before bed.<\/p>\n<p>All that resulted in was me seeing work emails and then thinking about it. Then I wouldn&#8217;t sleep.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t check your email at night. The work can wait until the morning when you&#8217;re ready to be &#8220;on&#8221; again.<\/p>\n<p>Sleep is very important to do this and energize yourself in the off hours. You&#8217;ll do much better work when you&#8217;re refreshed and ready to go. You might have to train your clients with this, but they&#8217;ll live. They&#8217;ve just become used to you being available 24\/7. Let them know about the change. They understand.<\/p>\n<p><em>These can be difficult to make happen. It&#8217;s like with any routine or habit, you need to push through the challenge of change, but after even a few days you&#8217;ll get used to it. 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