Making April your most productive month yet
All right, so it’s the beginning of a new month. Maybe in March you didn’t accomplish everything you wanted to. I know I didn’t. Since we can’t go back in time let’s look to this month and make it our most productive month so far. Here are the steps you can take to do so.
Reflect
“Look” to March or to the past few months and recall what you didn’t accomplish. Try to remember everything from the biggest tasks to the smallest.
Plan
Get yourself a piece of paper or open up a document on your computer. List numbers 2 through 30. Since April 1st has passed, we’ll skip that day. You can start at any day as long it’s somewhat early in the month. Make sure you give yourself plenty of room between each number.
Now, for each day write a goal that you want to accomplish on that day. Start small and then every 5 or ten days list a large goal to accomplish. You can write several goals for each day if you truly wish to. But it’s better to stay with one task and stay focused on it.
Okay, so after you have all your days filled up (even the weekends) it’s time to plan on how you are going to get each of these goals done. Under each goal, add baby steps that you’ll need to walk to reach your goals.
Act
This is the most important factor to being more productive. Take Action! Get things done. Don’t hesitate. Jump right in and get things going. Once you get one goal done you’ll be quickly moving onto the next ones on your list.
Review
After a few days go back to your plan and see how you’re doing. Cross off what you’ve accomplished and adjust your plans if need be.
Get back to work
Get back to getting things accomplished. Don’t stop, at least not yet.
Stop
Okay it’s time to take a break. Every time you accomplish a task reward yourself. Make sure your rewards are proportionate to your accomplishments.
Repeat
Next month repeat all these steps. Maybe even increase the stakes, make the goals even bigger than this month’s.
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