How to Get More Done & Be Productive! | My Top 5 Productivity Hacks

hey what's up Stefanie the English Coach here from EnglishFullTime.com in this video I'm

gonna give you some productivity hacks that will help you learn more learn faster stop

wasting time etcetera so the struggle is real right I don't know about you but I am constantly

trying to optimize my time get more done in less time so I can have more time to have

fun and just I have a lot of goals I'm constantly working towards them so I need all the productivity

hacks I can get and I'm constantly re-evaluating how I spend my time and looking for ways to

be more productive okay so I'm just gonna give you you know 5 of my strategies if you

have more strategies that you would like to share and add please put them below in the

comments hopefully this will help you I do feel like I'm pretty productive and I get

a lot done in the day I'm hard on myself also so sometimes I feel like it's never enough

but ha I'm trying to work on that okay so without further a due let's get started the

first tip that I have for you is to eliminate time wasting activities now here is the deal

I know we all need to relax right sometimes you just want to turn on the TV you just wanna

play video games you are like ugh I worked hard today right but you have to ask yourself

what is more important do I have a big goal in my life that I have not yet reached and

should I prioritize that above this other thing that is you know relaxing and whatever

but at the end of the day ti all comes back to what's more important when I first started

building my business I knew for a fact that I didn't have time to watch movies I didn't

have time to watch TV I didn't have time to do any of that fun stuff I had this huge goal

in front of me that I really really wanted right I wanted to create what I have today

and I did it but again I made sacrifices you will have to make sacrifices to get where

you want to be but once you get there then you can you know go back and spend time doing

those things you really like doing so for example time wasting activities is not just

watching TV and video games and all that stuff that's kind of obvious right we just go to

that when we are bored we check social media one of the time wasting activities for me

was cooking now I love cooking I can spend 4 hours in the kitchen and it just didn't

make sense for me to spend that much time cooking when I had all this work to do so

something had to give right so I gave up cooking as much as I love it and I didn't really cook

for a few years like whatever I would make would be very simple nothing elaborate because

cooking takes a lot of time and it's one or the other right I can't do everything I'm

not superwoman so productivity hack number 1 look at how you are spending your time and

really evaluate should I be doing this is there you know something better I could be

doing and if you say oh you know what but I need to relax like you can relax in other

ways let's say you are trying to build a business okay I'm just using this example because is

the easiest one because it's what I know a lot about if you are trying to do this instead

of going home and watching you know TV after work you can go home and listen to audio books

about how to build a business right really get yourself thinking and learning about this

other things that's pretty relaxing too and it will take you closer to your goals okay

the next productivity hack combine activities whenever possible for me I love going on walks

for like an hour okay but if I just go on a walk and do nothing else then I feel like

that's not productive enough so if I go on a walk I either problem solve during the walk

which is I think about all the problems I'm facing either in my personal life or my business

or whatever and I really actively think about solutions and when I think of solutions I

play scenarios out in my head I go okay if I do this what would happen if I do that what

would happen what are gonna be the consequences of this what are gonna be the consequences

of that I literally play everything out in my head and that is such a great strategy

it's like the right choice becomes super obvious it's like you just know what you have to do

next and I get a lot of great ideas when I go for walks and I think the other thing I

like to do when I'm walking is I listen to audio books I love audio books and I specially

love Blinkist because I can listen to really important books that teach me a lot of things

I need to learn in a very short amount of time so if you are interested in learning

more about Blinkist I will leave a link below it's a great app I use it all the time also

when I paint my nails I watch tutorials or I watch documentaries or I do something that

is productive okay so I'm not just painting my nails and I don't know doing nothing I'm

painting my nails and I'm being productive at the same time okay my next productivity

hack is to plan each day the night before I have a to -do list on a white board it's

always on my wall it's right behind my computer I can see it at all times and I regularly

update this to-do list I erase things when I finish them I add new things I always know

what I need to be working on first I put a star next to the things that are important

and when I go to bed at night I already think about what I'm gonna focus on the next day

so that when I wake up the next day I wake up with a purpose I know exactly what I have

to do I knock down those things and then the next day I do the same thing but this is how

I systematically plan what I'm gonna achieve and then I achieve it because it's all plan

out it's not like I'm just waiting around for things to happen I'm making things happen

so if you don't have a to-do list I can't even fathom people not having to-do lists

to me this is so essential but I know a lot of people watching this don't have to-do lists

if you don't okay definitely definitely make one so that you can know how you should be

spending your time and you can you know keep yourself accountable okay the next thing I'm

gonna suggest a lot of people are not gonna like it I don't care this helps me so much

delete all social media apps from your phone you are gonna be so surprised by how much

time this helps you create now I did this about a month ago and you really realize how

addicted you are to social media when you do this because I would open my phone 50 times

a day going oh yeah Facebook is not here you know oh yeah YouTube is not here it's crazy

but if you just get rid of it you'll realize oh my gosh all of a sudden I have more time

when you have more time you can do more of the things that you want to do or that you

should do etcetera the only app that I have on my phone is Instagram and this is because

I put stories on Instagram and I need the app on my phone in other to make those stories

when I make them however I don't have the Instagram app on my home page like right when

I turn on my phone I don't see Instagram right there I kind of moved it out of the way you

have to like swipe a few times to go find it because I don't wanna make it easy for

me to access it because then I would check it all the time unnecessarily and speaking

of that on my main account on Instagram @TheEnglishCoach I unfollowed everybody because I don't wanna

open up Instagram and start consuming content I need to produce content for the people that

are following me my next productivity hack is to keep your schedule light the more things

you put in your schedule the more things you commit to the more stressed out you are going

to be so I don't commit to very many things during the week actually most weeks I have

a completely free schedule and I just do my work at all times of the day okay morning

afternoon night whenever I feel like it it's a very very relaxed schedule because I don't

want to stress I am so against stress I don't believe stress is good I mean it ages you

it gives you anxiety it's not worth it so I'm anti stress I don't like stress I don't

want stress and I do everything to avoid it so again one of those things is keeping your

schedule light don't overcommit and then you'l have lots of time open and available to do

the things that you really want and need to focus on okay and my last and final productivity

hack for you today is to get lots of sleep your brain and your mood depend on it okay

have you ever been moody we all have now if you are moody that can be a lot of things

maybe you are hungry maybe you didn't sleep well maybe you didn't get enough sleep I don't

know there is so many different things that can affect our mood but what I know for sure

is that if you get enough sleep you are more likely to be in a better mood and you are

more likely to be able to control your moods okay so get lots of sleep your brain needs

sleep also to be able to process everything that happened to get you ready for the upcoming

day your brain needs it you will think better you will come up with better ideas you won't

feel as stressed you will be more relaxed okay there are so many benefits to getting

plenty of sleep when I was in college I would get 4 to 5 hours of sleep a night and I was

working 3 different jobs I was a full time student and I was an athlete okay I played

water polo which is a very very physical sport if you know about it uhm and I did weight

lifting to train for that it was crazy so I was doing way more than I'm doing now and

I was doing it on way less sleep okay so more activities on less sleep that was a recipe

for disaster I developed insomnia I develop anxiety I would get panic attacks it was awful

we don't have to live like this we have more control over our reality I think than most

of us would like to admit uhm back in college I realized that was a very unhealthy way to

live I quit a couple jobs I was also on the swim

team I quit that and in general I just quit a lot of things and that's when I learned

to not overcommit I would love to be able to do everything but I can't right you can

be really good at a couple things or you can be just okay at a lot of different things

I prefer to specialize in whatever I do so less is more my friends and with that I'll

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