Productivity expert Tony Wong advises, “Use your morning to focus on yourself… Start your day out right by ignoring your emails in the morning and getting in a good breakfast, reading the news, meditating, or working out. This will ensure you’ve got the necessary fuel for a productive day.”

The point is, do your most demanding tasks in your personal peak productivity time, whenever that is.

Research shows that productivity can be reduced by as much as 40% by the mental blocks created when people switch tasks.

To-do lists are invaluable productivity aids.

Making (or updating) a to-do list each night means that you won’t waste time at the start of the workday looking for your task.

Getting focused means narrowing your options.

So each night when you’re reviewing your to-do list, ask yourself two questions;

Delegation is to productivity as a nail gun is to driving nails.

When you delegate properly, you have more time to spend on your own work.

To be productive, you need to shut down their noise and shoo them away.

Turn off your email and phone notifications if you need full concentration.

First, unless you are expecting a critical call, turn off your phone when you’re about to work on a project that needs your full attention.

Studies have shown that physical activity enhances brain function.

Happy people are more productive.

Lack of sleep decreases our concentration, working memory, mathematical capacity, and logical reasoning.

I. Eat a healthy diet.

II. Drink lots of water.

III. Get rid of your bad habits%2c whether they be smoking or hanging around toxic people.

IV. And be nice to yourself as well as to other people.

V. and do whatever (healthy) thing recharges and refreshes you.