Productivity Hacks for Authors

How to Boost Your Productivity Without Endless Sleepless Nights & Breaking Into a Sweat

Productivity isn’t about being a workhorse, keeping busy or burning the midnight oil…It’s more about priorities, planning, and fiercely protecting your time.

~ Margarita Tartakovsky, blogger

Palomino horses cantering in field

If working smarter, not harder and doing less but earning more is your goal, and I’m guessing it is because you’ve been drawn to this checklist, you’re committed to finding ways that balance effort with ease.

We all want to be more productive but do we really know what this means? What does productivity look like? What does it feel like? How can productivity benefit your life—will it accelerate your wealth, happiness, and fulfillment? What might it steal—your sanity, relationships, health, and wealth?

These are questions many of us never ask—until it’s too late. Avoid barking up the wrong tree and chasing an ideal that may lead you further from the things that really matter, pause for a minute.

Before you dive into these checklists and charge into applying the productivity tips and tools I share, ask yourself what does productivity mean to you?

“Productivity is the outcome of your efforts”, says Laurie Wills, a former bank executive. “It’s how much you get out, versus how much you put in. The question you need to ask,” he says, “Is when you look at what you’re getting out is it what’s important to you?”

As you’ll discover, many of these simple hacks will help maintain your focus, boost your energy, top up your reserves and fill your productivity tank simply and easily.

21 productivity hacks:

• Begin with why: Get clear about what’s most important to you, the outcomes you seek, and your motivating reasons ‘why.’
• Purposeful productivity: Share your gifts with the world. Work with purpose. Work by priority. Work for prosperous productivity.
• See your goal achieved: You go where your vision Think big, feel big, and see your goal achieved.
• Measure your success: Determine your most critical measurements of success or Key Performance Indicators
• Tackle the toughest items first: The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complicated. Tick of the toughest items before tackling things you can do more easily.
• Affirm for success: Use empowering affirmations to boost flagging motivation, overcome obstacles and stay focused, enthusiastic and confident about your goals.
• Understand the rules: If you want to fast-track your productivity in any endeavor start and stay smart—understand the tried-and-proven rules of your chosen field.
• Model your heroes: Who do you admire? Who has achieved the prosperous productivity you yearn for? Become a diagnostician and analyze their success strategy.
• Successful daily habits: Identify daily rituals that boost your productivity and makes these a daily habit. Repetition and consistency are the important things.
• Miracle mornings: When you win the morning, you win the day. Take time to ‘be’ (center and prepare yourself) before rushing into ‘doing’
• Journal your way to productivity: Create a productivity journal with empowering quotes and other sources of inspiration, or embark on cathartic journaling to boost confidence and self-belief.
• Your not-to-do list: What can you simplify or subtract from your life to free up some space for enhanced productivity?
• Meditate: Stressed, fatigued or overwhelmed minds will never be productive. 80% of successful people have some form of guided mindfulness practice.
• Embrace Technology: Format and publish your books with Scrivener and Vellum. Use dictation to write faster, Ghostreader to improve flow, Grammarly to check errors and Evernote to store and retrieve ideas quickly.
• Batch to hatch time: Dedicate blocks of time to similar tasks is a powerful and simple way to decrease distraction and increase efficiency and productivity.
• Get Organized. Chaos is the enemy. Declutter and get organized. Spend time each day, each week, developing systems to streamline your efficiency.
• Boost your energy: Sleeping well, eating well, walking or some other form of exercise, and reducing alcohol are some of many effective ways to create and sustain highly productive energy.
• Aromatherapy for mental alertness: The simple truth is, even if you are unaware of the power of smell, aroma affects your mood. To feel sharper and more alert, rosemary, peppermint and cardamom are just are few essential oils to try.
• Focus: Juggling too many balls? Prioritize them, set a timer, and allocate segmented time for all the competing activities you feel must get done.
• Take the procrastination challenge: It might seem counterproductive, but sometimes the best way to be productive is radical acceptance—flow with your current mindset.
• 15-Minute Sprints: Small increments of progress help to maintain momentum over the longer-term— making it more likely you’ll finish larger tasks. Set the timer and just ‘do it’—you’ll be amazed at what you achieve.

Suggested Reading:

The Prosperous Author: How to Make a Living with Your Writing/Book Two: Productivity Hacks: Do Less & Make More

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The Prosperous Author: How to Make a Living with Your Writing/ Book One: Developing A Millionaire Mindset

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