As the year comes to an end and you prepare for a vacation or head out for the holidays, it is important for you to check your to-do list twice. See what you have done, what you are doing and how to improve it.

It can feel like a crazy rush to get everything done. But we don’t have to feel that way.

In this post, we will be giving you some little secrets on how to to be more productive and achieve a stress-free holiday.

1) Accelerate your most productive hours:
What time of the day do you engage in productive thinking? Is it first thing in the morning, later in the day, or at night time?

Realize when you are at your best and use the time to engage in mind tasking work that requires much brain power. It can be calling that difficult customer, strategic planning or figuring out the best way to achieve your set target.

Also, take into consideration the nature of your organization. Know the time you are most likely to get much work load or interruption from your superiors or colleagues and plan ahead.

2) Maximize your break time:
Do you apportion time to most things that you do, or do you just do things as they come your way?

Whichever way you choose, it always pertinent that you do yourself a favour and incorporate time for break. What should you do during your break time? You can do anything brief or a free will work: take a walk, read a book, or play a game in your phone.

3) Integrate buffers into your day:
We’ve all experienced it. The traffic jam, the bad road, back-to-back appointment, you name it.

Once the ill feeling creeps into our mood for the day, productivity and excitement begins to deteriorate.

Avoid this trap by creating buffers in your schedule for the day- it may be a couple of minutes. These buffers provides cushion effect for unexpected happenings and gives you ample time for transition between tasks.

4) Schedule time to do just nothing:
If you must hone your productivity, you have to slow…down. It’s usually not how fast but how well.
It may seem counter-intuitive, but schedule time to do nothing always have a positive effect on your psyche.

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