This document provides 12 daily tips over 12 days to improve productivity. The tips include walking around the office instead of sitting for long periods, delegating tasks, focusing on the highest priority task before checking email, batching similar tasks, automating recurring tasks, getting fresh air, and periodically reviewing processes to identify improvements. The overall message is that small changes to daily habits and routines can boost productivity.

2. 1st Day of Productivity
Have a question for a
colleague in your office? Get
up and walk over to their
desk. For every 20 minutes
you spend sitting, you should
spend 8 minutes standing and
2 in motion.

3. 2nd Day of Productivity
Sometimes productivity
is as much about what
you don’t do. Find 3
things that you can
delegate or automate

4. 3rd Day of Productivity
Before you start your day, identify your highest priority task. Make
progress on it BEFORE you check your email.

5. 4th Day of Productivity
Set aside time to learn to use your tools and software more efficiently.
Review a video tutorial or check out the latest user tips.

6. 5th Day of Productivity
Be strategic about when you
schedule your phone calls. Pick a
time of day when you feel like
talking and are less likely to make
progress on other kinds of work.

7. 6th Day of Productivity
Don’t get overwhelmed by a lengthy to-do list. Choose the top
priorities and put the rest aside (for now). Otherwise your progress can
get slowed by all the other things you’re thinking about.

8. 7th Day of Productivity
Put a stop to the information
overload. Have your own
“awards ceremony” and choose
the very best blogs, news
sources, and experts to follow.
This lets you focus on the
information that will be
genuinely valuable to you and
keep the rest from taking up
your bandwidth.

9. 8th Day of Productivity
Have a few minutes? Go outside for some fresh air. The levels of carbon
dioxide found in some indoor office environments can decrease cognitive
performance by as much as 50%.

10. 9th Day of Productivity
Batch similar tasks together.
Get in the zone and knock
them out all at once.

11. 10th Day of Productivity
The more automatic a routine
is the better. Turn your most
important recurring to-do list
items into daily, weekly, or
monthly rituals.

12. 11th Day of Productivity
Don’t take your
physical workspace
for granted. Make
sure everything you
need is hand easy to
find.

13. 12th Day of Productivity
Analyze and iterate! Pause
and look back at the end
of the quarter and the
year to assess what
worked and what could
work better. Get feedback
from your colleagues and
other teams on process
improvement and use it to
make things run even
more smoothly in the
future.

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