Lifehacks that simplify life don't always have to be aimed at quick stain removal or tidy drawers. Because what really stresses us out in everyday life is usually not the dirty carpet, but the professional future. Three life hacks that will make you more productive and successful.
1. Never start the day with emails
Scientific studies show: Most people are most productive in the morning. When you answer your emails, you're responding instead of setting your own agenda. Not a good way to start a productive workday. Not only do you waste your morning potential, but you get into a reactive mode and need extra energy to get out of it. Instead, start your day with a difficult or particularly important task. Learn how to use your morning most productively in this post.
2. Keep a success list
Why are you in your current position? Because you obviously impressed in the interview. You were the best person for the job! And how did you get that impression? By what you have accomplished in the past. You documented your skills with your CV, references, certificates and milestones achieved and thus sold yourself well in the interview. So why not continue to benefit from this?
It's best to create a document in which you record your daily successes: Which project did you complete well? What numbers did you achieve with your work? How did you convince a difficult client with your presentation? Update the document on an ongoing basis. Now you don't have to rack your brain to prepare for your annual review. Plus, reading your list of accomplishments can do wonders on bad days.
3. Expand your network
No matter what field you work in: You should know people from all parts of the company. Make it an ongoing project: every week, get in touch with a colleague with whom you have nothing to do.
Go to lunch with the colleague from accounting, buy the intern a coffee, ask in the cafeteria if you can sit in and get to know the people in the company better. This way you expand your horizons and get a completely different feel for the company and the things that are important to the employees.
