6 Ways to Increase Productivity Factor
Some days it could be overwhelming to stare at the stack of papers needed to be processed or project folders sitting at your desk “screaming” at you. It doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day to tackle these tasks. Soon, you start jumping from one reactive behavior to the next one, from one interruption to an email. This takes your concentration away throughout the day making it difficult for you to complete projects and therefore decreasing your productivity factor.
What can you do to complete everything on your plate?
Why Cubicle Life feels like a Prison and How to Fix it
You are sitting in your cubicle and begin to get a little claustrophobic. The background noise and interruptions are making that seventh hour, a really slow one.
Why do we feel uneasy and might even hate our cubicles, managers, jobs, chairs, and co-workers?
Well, it all started several thousand years ago.
In his book [1] Brain Rules, Dr. Medina - a developmental molecular biologist, business consultant and director of the Brain Center for Applied Learning Research at Seattle Pacific University - shows how our brains really work, and why.
Brain rules might also explain why cubicle life feels like one in prison. Starting with spending 40 hours per week in a 10’ x 10’ cell with half an hour break and no windows, here is an inside of what does our brain “think” of this environment and why. No wonder its inventor, Robert Propst, lamented his unwitting contribution, before he died in 2000, to what he called “monolithic insanity.”
How to Stop Junk Mail
Is it annoying for you to sort through all the junk mail every day? Here is what I used to do with junk mail until I discovered how to get rid of it.
1. Open overstuffed mail box and cut finger while pulling all the junk mail mixed with important mail
2. Walk into the house while sorting through the “mixed mail”
3. Find the shredder; feed the junk mail one by one into the shredder
4. Fight the shredder - aargg! - Pull the jammed paper and try again
5. Dump shredded junk mail into the recycle bin in the kitchen
6. Once recycle bin is full, tale it to the bigger recycle bin outside
7. Pay every month for the trash company to recycle shredded junk mail
Seems like a lot of work and time spent on something I don’t want to receive and something I want to get rid of.
Solution: Cut it off at the source - “Hasta la vista, junk mail”.
Here is what you have to do to free yourself from junk mail. How to stop junk mail is easier than you might think, just go to this link;
https://www.dmachoice.org/MPS/proto1.php
This website allows you to remove your physical address (opt-out) from junk mail lists and other commercial lists, for example; those annoying catalogs. I’m against catalogs because most of the time those are “want items” you’ll just end up buying instead of “need items”.
There are two ways to register;
- Fill out a form online - fastest way -
- Complete a mail-in registration form. You will need to pay $1 for processing fees.
Nowadays I only check my mailbox once every two weeks. There are a few other tricks I implemented to be able to do that. Stay tuned …
Questions and Comments:
How many times a week do you check your mail box? What percentage of Junk Mail do you get?
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