The word ‘busy’ is one of the most overused words. Everyone is always busy doing something, but the question is, is the productivity relative to how busy you are?
If your answer is negative, you need to shift your focus from being busy to being productive, and this is how you can get started:

Have a reasonable to-do list
Although this is where you might be getting it wrong. Rather than writing up a long list of all the big task, you would like to complete in a day, you should only list about 3-8 task depending on how much time each task would take. Having a long list of the heavy task would look overwhelming and less motivating, and this would only lead to reduced productivity.

Learn Single Tasking
Multi-tasking is overrated and we live in a society where multi-tasking is considered as a skill. The truth is, multi-tasking does not help you achieve the same amount and same quality of results that you would achieve when you focus on a single task. If you would like to be more productive, focus on completing a task before moving on to another one. If the task would take so much time, break it into smaller task, this way it’s less overwhelming and you would be able to achieve it in no time.

Keep a Productivity Journal
This might sound like a lot of work, but it certainly is very rewarding. In your productivity journal, you should have a list of your main goals with timeline and status of completion. When you complete them you check it, when you don’t, ask yourself why it has not been completed and what has to be done to complete them.

Finally, you should understand what works for you. You need to understand that what works for others in achieving their various tasks, might not work for you.
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