Learn more at: https://www.hibox.co/blog/productivity-game-plan-7-vital-steps-to-reaching-your-goals-91a01d374a00/ Productivity boils down to the individual minutes and how you choose to spend them. If we know personal productivity is what stands in the way between us and our goals, why don’t we just do it? Productivity is a mental game and to win you absolutely must set yourself up for success ahead of time. We’ll give you some tips to set a personal system to guarantee productivity and help you work towards your goals without even thinking about it.

1. 7 VITAL STEPS
TO REACHING YOUR GOALS
(PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY GAME PLAN)

2. • Productivity boils down to the individual minutes and how you
choose to spend them
• If we know personal productivity is what stands in the way between
us and our goals, why don’t we just do it?
• Productivity is a mental game and to win you absolutely must set
yourself up for success ahead of time
• Here are 7 tips to set a personal system to guarantee productivity and
help you work towards your goal without even thinking about it!

3. #1
QUANTIFY YOUR GOALS

4. • A huge mistake we make in goal setting is not giving quantifiable
measures
• We’re lofty dreamers, but we’re also analytical
• Numbers speak to us - You wouldn’t tell a board that your team’s
plan is to “increase profits by a lot” — don’t tell yourself the same
• Have specific numbers to base your strategy on
• When you don’t establish quantifiable goals, you have no
indication you’ve made any progress.

5. • Even worse, it’s easy to lie to yourself about what you’ve achieved
• You can’t change what you can’t measure
• Luckily, there’s a tool to help quantify just about anything
• Weight loss goals? FitDay provides a great daily body and mood
tracker
• Savings goals? Try MoneyBox for a fun way to both track savings
goals and invest

6. #2
DETERMINE THE STEPS TO
GET THERE

7. • In our minds, attaining goals are epic movie-like moments like
crossing the finish line of a marathon
• It’s clear when we’ve arrived and everything is changed
• Attaining some goals may be distinct but others may be more
gradual
• Regardless, creating real progress is only the result of consistent
daily action
• You must break up long and short-term goals into small, attainable,
and actionable steps

8. #3
DELEGATE THE WORK TO
YOURSELF AND MAKE
IT DIGITAL

9. • Treat yourself like an employee. Manage yourself. Once you’ve
created your actionable steps, delegate the work to yourself as
tasks
• Make them a priority like any task you would receive at work
• Until you are able to turn goals in your mind to consistent physical
actions, they can exist only in your mind
• Many of us have moved our work and personal lives online

10. • Move your goals online for better productivity
• For this, there are many digital tools to help organize your goal
tasks
• Scheduling them somewhere digital rather than written down and
somewhere out of site will help integrate them
• Try WunderList for easy personal productivity on-the-go and at
your desk

11. #4
NO MORE TO-DO LISTS -
SCHEDULE PRODUCTIVITY

12. • Organize your goals in a calendar and schedule productivity
• Don’t add to a to-do list. To-do lists don’t work
• Lists work for groceries and that’s about it
• To be productive you need to schedule in productivity
• These tasks must be non-negotiable events you will to be present
for each day and not things you’ll get around to “when you can”

13. #5
GET NOTIFICATIONS ONLY
WHEN IT MATTERS

14. • The great thing about digitizing your goals is that you can keep
yourself notified
• You can log the tasks you need to complete to stay productive and
on track in a personal task management app or calendar even as
simple as Google Calendars
• Have notifications set up to remind you at the ideal times to
accomplish those tasks throughout the day

15. • For example, if you know you typically have time in the morning
and during to finish part of an online language course, you can set
reminders for those times
• Re-reading a note on a to-do list all day will do you no good!

16. #6
MAKE TIME TO BE
UNPRODUCTIVE

17. • A huge part of real productivity and goal attainment is avoiding
burnout
• To prevent yourself from getting overwhelmed and falling out of
your productive schedule, literally schedule in time to be
unproductive
• Allow yourself scheduled breaks to do nothing
• If you know there is a break ahead, you are must more likely to
follow through with tasks beforehand

18. #7
SIMPLIFY AND ORGANIZE
THE ENVIRONMENT
AROUND YOU

19. • A big part of the reason we’ve become so unable to focus on long-
term goals is the vast amount of data we are constantly exposed to
every day
• The average person spends almost two hours a day total browsing
social media
• The more hours a day you spend online, the more important it is to
prioritize and simplify what you put in front of you
• There are tools you can use to block social media sites for certain
hours such as Cold Turkey

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