33 Trending Tips to Accomplish your Business Task

Trending Tips to Accomplish your Task

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1. The Background:

Sometimes it can be difficult to stay motivated and effective at work, even if you want to be. You can get out of a work slump if you change your mind-set and how you tackle your job. If you organize your tasks, stay focused at work, and take care of yourself, you can be more effective at work.

2. Make a checklist.

Creating a work checklist or to-do list can help you stay on track at work. Limit how many items are on your to-do list so you don’t stress yourself out. Choose the three most important tasks you need to get done. These are big, important, and crucial tasks that must get done before you do anything else. Fill the rest of your checklist with minor tasks to accomplish if you finish your big tasks.

• Write your checklist the night before and focus on that coming day only.
• Be specific in your checklist, break down tasks into smaller chunks, and include time estimates.

3. Try making a list of your values:

Try making a list of your values to further understand what organization means to you. Try answering the questions, “What are my values?” and “What are my strengths?” Values and strengths can often be interchangeable. The University of Pennsylvania has a website where you can take a 20-minute inventory, called the VIA test, that can help you find out what your signature strengths are.

Signature strengths are strengths that have been valued throughout history by various religions, spiritual beliefs, and spiritual practices throughout virtually every country and culture. If you prioritize activities that cater to your strengths, you’ll prioritize your happiness and feel more organized as you do so.

4. Create a to-do list.

Sure, a to-do list sounds oddly similar to using a planner to schedule your days. However, think of your to-do list as breaking down your day into even smaller, more manageable pieces. Don’t list major, vague projects (such as clean the house or workout more). Give yourself some clear direction with short, easy tasks (like clean the kitchen, scrub the toilets, and run one mile).

• Add little check boxes next to each task, even if it seems silly. Ticking off the boxes as you work through your day will give you a visual reminder of your hard work, and leave you feeling fulfilled and proud of your work.
• Keep your to-do list someplace you will see it often, to remind you of the tasks you have to accomplish. You may even consider keeping it in your planner.
• Finish the biggest projects on your to do list before getting to smaller ones. For example, finish “scrub the fridge” before “sort the mail” to give you momentum and make yourself more productive.

5. Track where you waste time.

Look at your patterns on how you spend time and where you waste it. Do you find yourself clicking on Facebook a little too often? Or having too many chats with your coworkers in the break room? Figure out where you waste time so you can stop and be more effective at work.

6. Break up your projects into smaller tasks.

It can be hard to feel accomplished if you spent the entire day on one thing, and still have not finished it. Break up big projects into small successes to help you feel motivated and be more effective at work.

• If you worked on creating a budget for a company all day, think of it as all the small steps you did to create the budget. Maybe you contacted business owners, created spreadsheets, and calculated where money was being wasted, so you actually accomplished three tasks.

7. Create a daily routine.

Tell your mind and body that it is time to work by having a routine system. This might mean that every morning you start off the same way (such as you doing stretches, drinking coffee, and turning on a pump up playlist).

• Have designated times throughout the day where you are allowed to check your email, so you don’t waste time impulsively  checking it all day.

8. Check in with yourself.

When you get to work, spend five minutes with your to-do list thinking about your day. Think about how you are going to accomplish your tasks for the day. Every hour force yourself to refocus. Look at how you spent the past hour and ask yourself if it was productive. Commit to making the next hour productive. When the day ends, ask yourself how your day went. Was it productive? How can you change to make tomorrow more successful?

9. Stop procrastinating.

Possibly the toughest item on the list, procrastinating is a major detriment to organizing your life. Instead of putting things off, get them done immediately. Force yourself to get things done without waiting to finish them. If it can be done in two minutes or less, always do it right away while breaking down larger tasks into smaller pieces to make them manageable.

10. Set a timer for fifteen minutes and work like crazy during that time. 

Don’t get distracted, take any breaks, or stop for any reason but an emergency during the time your timer is going. Then, allow yourself to stop working on your tasks when the timer goes off. Likely though, you will continue working because you finally managed to make headway on a project you’ve been avoiding.

• Remove your distractions, whatever they are. Often it is the internet, your phone, sleep, or even a good book. No matter what distracts you, set a period of time where you work on projects without them.

11. Start your day out right.

When you wake up, eat a good breakfast, shower or wash your face, get dressed, and put on your shoes. Do all the things you would do, every single day, as if you were going in to work at the office. This will change your mental perspective; by getting ready and making yourself presentable to the world, you have set yourself up for success. You’ll have more confidence because you’ll know that you are prepared for anything, and you will therefore be more direct about getting work accomplished and being organized about it.

12. Know how to do your job well.

If you know how to do your job like the back of your hand, then it will require less energy. Knowing what you are doing will allow you to excel at your work. Although you should still challenge yourself to new things and continue to outdo yourself to build your skills, contribute to your company, and to keep yourself from getting bored.

• Seek further training to help you master your job if you can’t get things done because you don’t have the right skills or knowledge.

13. Stay motivated to avoid procrastination.

A big reason for procrastination is because you are dreading to do something. Force yourself to do things in bursts. Force yourself to start a chunk of something even if it is just for five minutes, then stop if you need to. Once you start making progress on something, you will be more motivated to keep going and working on it longer and longer until it is finished.

• Turn your phone off and clear your desk to avoid distractions that encourage procrastination.
• Do challenging tasks before lunch when you are the most motivated.

14. Worry about what you can control.

Focus your time and energy on what you can control. Don’t worry about and stress about what is beyond your control. If you start getting worried about what a coworker is doing or stressing about another department, it will just waste your own time. You will feel more empowered and be more effective at work if you just focus on what is in your control.

15. Work efficiently.

In order to be an effective worker, you have to be an efficient worker. Stop multi-tasking. Focus on one task at a time. If you try to do ten things at once, you won’t complete anything.

16. Collaborate with your coworkers.

Work in a team to accomplish tasks faster and to bring new ideas to projects. Working with others and asking for help when you need it will help you be a more effective worker.

17. Take breaks.

You can’t be effective at work if you don’t allow yourself time to take a break. Allow yourself moments to break from work every couple of hours. Eat a snack, go on a walk, or meditate to recharge your brain to be more effective.

18. Stop working at a set time.

If you force yourself to stop working when work is over, you will be more effective when you are actually at work. Set a firm cut off time for when work is over and stick to it. Plan something interesting after work to encourage yourself to stop working. Have a routine after work to wind yourself down, such as taking a walk or keeping a journal.

19. Relieve stress.

The key to staying stress free is to feel in control. Keep your days planned to help you feel in control. Make sure you have a clear idea of what is expected from you at work to help avoid stress. Do stress reducing activities after work (such as reading, listening to music, doing yoga, or doing a creative hobby).

20. Find a place for everything you have.

If your house is unorganized, you probably don’t have designated places for all your things. Instead of resigning items to a certain room or area, keep track of a very specific location for everything in your home.

• Don’t simply leave something on your nightstand; instead, create a space specifically for that item. Do the same for everything in your home so that things aren’t left lying around without a place to live.
• Keep something like a basket or small stand near the front door where you can place things you need to deal with when you have more time. This might include your mail, items from the store, or things from school and work.

21. Declutter space by space.

Choose a day during the week on which you have most (or all) of your time free. Then, choose a single area in your life that is unorganized and needs to be cleaned up. This could be rooms in your house, your car, or your office at work. Then work only on throwing out unnecessary items that are taking up space in that section of your life.

• Get organizational storage containers, folders, and boxes to help your place stay organized. You can buy items designated for organized storage from many department and furniture stores, or you can make your own using things like cups, shoe boxes, and dishes. Make these organizational pieces a bit more attractive with a coat of paint or a covering of fabric.
• Consider the last time you used the items you are sorting through. If it has been many months or years since you last needed it, consider throwing it out.

22. Get rid of things you don’t need.

Although you might assume that you “need” everything you own, a disorganized house is probably likely to have some items you don’t. Sort through the things that constantly give you clutter and determine how useful it is to you. If you haven’t used it in a long time, don’t use it frequently, don’t like it anymore, or don’t need it, get rid of it.

23. Keep your emotions separate from the items you are sorting. 

Sure, your great aunt may have given you that porcelain knickknack, but do you truly want or need it? Make steps to throw these things out, and don’t feel like a bad person for doing so.

• Separate things you get rid of into piles such as trash, donations, and things to sell. Then, process each pile accordingly.
• Hold a garage or yard sale to make some money on the things you are throwing out. Large items, such as furniture or electronics, can be listed on online selling sites like eBay or Craigslist so that you don’t have to host a large event in order to make your money.

24. Put things back right away.

Everyone does it – takes out a pen from the drawer, writes a note, and then leaves it on the counter. Instead of placing things where it’s most convenient, take an extra moment to return them to their correct places.

• If the task you are considering takes less than two minutes, just do it right away. Getting it done will leave your house organized and give you less to do later.
• If there are several things laying around in the same area, take a few minutes to put them all back. This will keep the unruly pile from growing larger and more difficult to deal with.

25. Divvy up your chores.

How many times has your house become unorganized because you put off cleaning it up? Although this is tied to procrastination, you can make your list of things to clean and organize more manageable by presenting yourself with smaller tasks. Choose a single item – such as dusting – and give yourself a specific time and day to do it. If you do this with all your chores, your space will always be clean without you having to spend several consecutive hours working on it.

26. Label everything.

Do you have boxes or drawers full of mystery items, long lost from your memory? Well get out your handy label maker (or use a classic marker) and label everything you have. Keep like things in the same place, in order to make the labelling process go a bit smoother.

27. Prioritise your life.

Think of 5 things that you want to be big things in your life, such as studying, exercise, healthy eating, relaxation, working, sleep etc.

28. Make a chart.

29. Decide what your aims are.