Productivity boost: All you need is pencil, paper and these tips

Plan the course of your days in advance. With better organisation and planning, you will feel more competent because you will be working faster and more smoothly than you are now.

Do the following exercise: write down all the tasks you have to do today. Include the work-related activities as well as the personal ones, such as exercising or preparing a healthy dinner for yourself or your family. Next organise the list by asking yourself what you would do if you could finish only one single item on your list.

Now imagine that you may finish only two – and so on. The next step is to remain disciplined and always work only on the task that you currently have as your top priority. This means not working on item number 4 if you haven’t yet finished numbers 1, 2 and 3.