11 Things Organized and Productive People Do Every Day – Ending Part

6. They make time for lunch. We’ve all been there—you’re head-down busy, and by the time you look up, it’s way past lunchtime. You end up either going without, or grabbing a donut or a bag of chips from the snack machine. Both are really bad ideas. The donut will give you an energy boost for about 20 minutes, but after that, your focus will drop like a rock.

As far as skipping meals, not\r\nonly does it affect your concentration, productivity, and problem-solving\r\nskills, it also affects your waistline—and not in the way you might expect.\r\nResearch from Ohio State University shows that the weight you lose by skipping\r\nmeals is muscle weight that you regain later as fat.

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7.\r\nThey tidy up at the end of each day

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The best remedy for clutter is to set aside about 10\r\nminutes at the end of each day to organize your desk. Although we know that\r\nit’s best to touch things only once, we’ve all stopped halfway through a task\r\nbecause the phone rang or somebody stopped by to chat. You really can’t prevent\r\nsuch things, but you can end the day by resolving all of the things you left\r\nhalf-finished.

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8.\r\nThey plan their days the night before

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Organized and productive people go to bed each\r\nnight, secure in the knowledge of what they’ll accomplish the following day.\r\nThey get their priorities straight the night before, so that once the day\r\nstarts, they’re less likely to get distracted by the “tyranny of the\r\nurgent”—those little fires that pop up and get in the way of their real\r\npriorities.

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9.\r\nThey make full use of technology

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There’s been\r\na lot said about how modern technology extends the work day. While that may be\r\ntrue, technology can also make us more productive. Whether it’s setting up an e‑mail\r\nfilter to keep your inbox spam-free, or using an app like Evernote to organize\r\ninformation you’re going to need again, technology isn’t always bad. Used\r\nproperly, it can save a lot of time.

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10.\r\nThey don’t ignore their snail mail

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For this one, we go back to the “touch it once”\r\nphilosophy. For most of us, there’s not a lot of snail mail these days that we\r\nactually look forward to. But ignoring it can cause problems, especially when it\r\ncomes to things like bills and tax notifications. Just go ahead and open it,\r\nand take care of it as soon as it arrives; otherwise, you’ll end up digging\r\nunder the sofa cushions searching for that overdue bill.

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11.\r\nBringing It All Together

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Every minute you spend looking for something you\r\nmisplaced, or trying to remember what you’re supposed to do next, will harm\r\nyour productivity. That, in turn, eats into your career potential. The good\r\nnews is that there are many tools you can use to stay organized and productive,\r\nand so even the most disorganized among us can put a system in place to keep us\r\nin check.

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Dr. Travis Bradberry\r\n– Huffington Post