5 Effortless Habits I Don’t Delay to Increase Productivity
Get more things done in less time
I believe habits define us. It’s all about how we act every day.
I saw a tweet on Twitter that said — if every morning you instantly check social media as you wake up every day, then you are starting your day in the wrong manner. You need to focus and start using app blockers.
We all know our bad habits, we know what to change but we procrastinate to change it.
Increasing productivity is a goal that many people strive for, but it can be difficult to know where to start, here I am listing the 5 habits that I do to save time and increase my productivity of myself with everyone around me.
1. The Best way to stop a bad habit
It’s the best way to stop a bad habit, believe me.
My husband has this nail-biting habit, every time his hand is near his mouth. Though I always said not to bite nails when I am around, it still kept going.
If you look at the nails of people who thus nail bitting, their nails are so tiny, almost in their skin.
The Internet has so many tips to stop nail biting, but it didn’t work for me. According to research, 20–30 % of people bite their nails, so it’s time to stop it.
Biting nails is not good for health, as our hands have bacteria, and putting it always in the mouth won’t be good for the body.
How to fix it:
- Charge money: Every time I see my husband biting, I charge him $1, to be honest we mostly meet in the evening after our work. He literally bites his nails at least 5 times, but that is reduced because I keep on charging money.
- Give time: Just like good habit takes time to build, bad habits take time to stop. In my case, it’s been a month and I can see improvement. I see my husband takes his hand near his mouth and suddenly realize that he has to stop, otherwise he needs to pay me.
- You can stop any bad habit with this idea: Whatever bad habit you yourself have, or if you want someone from your family to stop it, charge money.
- Charge more money and not something they can easily give: I know, I am charging just $1, it’s my first month. If he must be at home for the whole day, and I am with him, I would probably get around $30 for that, though now his habit has much improved.
If you guys think I should charge more then let me know in the comment below.
2. Not delaying the washroom run when you are sleep
At night at times, we feel the urge of going to the washroom but we keep on delaying believing it will stop.
Don’t do it, just go to the washroom.
I have always noticed this, when I delayed going to the washroom at night, neither I slept for a prolonged period plus wasted my sleep hours.
It means, if sleep is not good, the next day you don’t feel that energy and enthusiasm to start your day.
Delaying washrooms can be bad for health as well.
How to fix it:
- Empty your bladder and make it a habit to go to the washroom before going to bed.
- Not only at night time but even in the day, don’t delay your washroom run.
- Reduce fluid intake before bedtime.
3. Spending money on the right social media platform
For me spending money on a youtube subscription is the best thing.
I believe the internet has so many free resources to learn and upgrade the skill, so putting money on the right social media platform will help you grow.
YouTube is free, you can learn any skill you want, and all you have to do is put it into action having a subscription makes it easy to learn without any ad disturbance in the middle of learning.
How to use it:
- Identify what you want to learn and subscribe to those channels
- Personalize your recommendation.
- Unsubscribe to channels that are unmotivating or random vlogs where you spent a huge time, and give you no results.
- Share what you learn with people, using a blog post, or vlogs, or talk to your family about it. When you share you understand more deeply and it even helps other.
- Make a personalized playlist for each of the skills and save videos there to come back and watch.
4. Doing this while having anxiety or feeling overwhelmed
All days don't go as we want.
Life happens, things happen and we can't change anything at the moment. I learned this idea from an Instagram reel, and to be honest, my Instagram is all about some skills or quotes, where I watch and look for things that help me grow.
The idea was splashing ice-cold water on my face, believe me, it works.
I am not talking about having a cold bath, I can’t do that as of now. But splashing it on your face really helps you relax.
What you will feel:
- Refreshing and energizing: Splashing cold water on your face raises your heart rate and breathing and helps you feel more awake and alert.
- It’s good for the skin: It improves your skin by making it tighten and firm, reducing pores and fine lines.
- It increases circulation: It increases the delivery of oxygen by stimulating circulation.
5. Doing things at a moment that take less time
Don’t procrastinate on small tasks, just do them right away.
It may be organizing your desk after completion of work, or putting up the TV remote in its place.
In short, keep things where you took them after the work is done. There is no rocket science for productivity, everything lies in the details and daily chores you do.
Completing a small task at the moment increases productivity, otherwise, if small chores start to pile up, it's stressful and we keep on delaying.
How to fix it:
- If some chores take more time to clean give yourself 15–20 minutes to work on them.
- Glance at this 5 minutes task list that you can do at a moment.
- Clean that drawer or wardrobe you see daily, and make it organized to increase your productivity.
Above are some of the tasks I don’t delay, and do them right away.
Habits are the actions that we do each day to make our life works smoothly. It’s essential to eliminate and know the ground truth of bad habits that are drawing you.
Let’s glance over the 5 habits that you should start doing right away and which won’t consume a lot of your time plus helps you with productivity:
- Charge money to stop a bad habit
- Use the washroom when there is an urge, and don’t delay.
- Spend money on the right social media platform to increase your skill.
- Splash cold water on your face when feeling overwhelmed.
- Do the little things in the moment and do not delay.
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