How to make

your day Super

Productive

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Donia Elizabeth Varkey
“Productivity is never an accident. It
is the result of a commitment to
excellence, intelligent planning, and
forecasted effort”

—Paul J Meyer

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 Prepare your outfit the night before

● Choose the right clothes depending on the kind of

day you have the next day

● Less time is wasted on unnecessary decisions

Barak Obama and Mark Zuckerberg always

wears the same clothes

Source: Google images

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 Plan the day the night before

● Create a plan on what are the schedule for the next

day

● This would be easier if you have a week’s plan

mapped out

● Spend 15 to 20 minutes on this

Source: Google images

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 Master TO-DO List

● Should contain all the tasks to be done

● Keep it updated

● Eliminates multiple daily to do lists

● More organized

Source: Google images

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 Use the ABCDE Method

● Prioritize your tasks

● Start work with A tasks

● Start B tasks only after all A tasks are completed

● Use the 80/20 rule, 20% of your tasks contributes

to 80% of total productivity

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 Set timelines to get things done
● Once the tasks for the day are mapped out, fix a
timeline for the same

● Ensure that time is apportioned for all the tasks

● Sense of order and planned work

Bill Gates have every minute meticulously

planned. He dedicates a fixed slot for each task
to avoid distractions and stay goal-driven.

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Source: Google images
 Get up 2 hours early
● Gives you 2 extra hours to kick start your day

● Quite work environment

Waking up with (or before) the sun, allows

executives like General Motors’ Mary Barra and
Pepsi’s Indra Nooyi to get a head start,
knocking out tasks before the rest of the world
has rolled out of bed Source: Google images

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 Meditate for 5 minutes

● Helps in relaxing your body and mind

● Better focus

● Improves productivity

Oprah’s day starts with a 20-minute meditation

session for keeping her mind at peace

Source: Google images

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 Eat your breakfast

● Breakfast is your body’s fuel

● Helps the body and mind to function at its peak

● It boosts brainpower and thus increases

productivity

Source: Google images

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Set up a specific time to check emails
● Constantly checking emails can lead to time
wastage

● Map out specific times for checking mails as per

the requirement

● Use the 2 minute rule to skim through your inbox

Elon musk checks his mails in the morning as a

morning routine
Source: Google images

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 Keep yourself unreachable when working

● Isolate yourself and make yourself completely

unreachable when you have to complete important
tasks

● Better focus and control over your tasks

● Less distractions

Elon Musk does not even take phone calls, all

communication will be through mails to avoid
distractions
Source: Google images

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 Don’t do so many meetings

● Too many meetings a day reduces the time to

actually work on the implementation

● Too many meetings drain you out and the meeting

itself becomes unproductive

Many Fortune 500 companies have started

taking the few meetings they have while
standing up Source: Google images

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 Learn to say NO

● Saying No to unreasonable requests will help you

focus on more productive works

● Most successful and super productive people are

very good at saying No

I’m actually as proud of the things we haven’t done

as the things I have done. Innovation is saying ‘no’
to 1,000 things.” – Steve Jobs
Source: Google images

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 Workout

● Working out helps in maintaining a healthy

lifestyle

● It is ideal to have atleast 2 workout sessions in a

week

Elon Musk doesn’t take his health lightly. To

stay in shape, he ensures he hits the gym twice a
Source: Google images
week.

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 Drink more water and stay hydrated

● This is part of a healthy lifestyle

● Dehydrated body means less energy to perform

tasks

● Less energy translates to less productivity

Source: Google images

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 Create a trash and stop doing list

● A stop doing list contains all the things you will

not do

● A trash list would be a list you make to put any

random thoughts that come up while you perform
a task

Source: Google images

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 Get things right the first time

● Set a plan such that the work gets done in the first
time

● Less time wasted

● Less effort wasted

Source: Google images

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 Hide distracting apps
● Any app that might be distracting can be hidden
while you are working

● Prevents time wasted in unproductive works

According to studies, social media reduces your

attention span by numbers. It promotes herd
thinking and reduces innovation too
Source: Google images

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 Thank You
Donia Elizabeth Varkey
Marketing Manager (Intern)
AirCrews Aviation Pvt. Ltd.
www.aircrewsaviation.com
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