In order to succeed in today’s fast-paced, content-driven world, you need to be efficient at creating high-quality work, information, and products. This means that you can’t be taking longer than is necessary to complete tasks and projects at a high quality level. If you take longer than is necessary, you won’t be able to produce as much as you could, thereby negatively impacting your profitability and even your credibility and reputation. However, being able to work efficiently all of the time can be challenging for many, due to the constant struggle. How can one continue to work efficiently for long periods of time?

One good way to ensure you can work efficiently for long periods of time is to make that work fun. You may be wondering, “How do I make efficient work fun?” You can make efficient work fun by challenging yourself to continue producing work at a high-quality level AND doing it as efficiently and quickly as possible. You can challenge yourself to continue becoming faster and better at producing high-quality work in a short period of time.

Keep track of the amount of time you are spending on each task of a project and see where you are doing well and where you can improve. See what tasks are slowing you down to where you are not as efficient and work to improve those areas. Think about what is causing you to slow down when you do certain tasks – is it just that you’re not that proficient with them and you need to improve your skill to complete them or is your mind wandering while you are doing them, causing you to slow down? Figure out whether it’s a skill-based issue or a focus-based issue that is causing you to slow down and work to improve that area to improve your overall time in completing projects.

You can reward yourself when you perform high-quality work in a short period of time, especially when you complete a project even faster than you anticipated. You can treat yourself to extra time off, spending time with family and/or friends, doing a leisurely activity, buying an item you’ve been wanting, etc.

This is how you can make efficient work fun- treat it as a challenge to get more high-quality work done in less time. Keep track of how long it takes you to complete tasks and projects and identify areas where you slow down. Reward yourself when you perform as well or better-than-expected and continue to improve the pace that you work so that you can produce more high-quality work in short periods of time for maximum profitability.

To your success.

Michael W

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When many people take on a major project that lasts days, weeks, or even months, they have a tendency to take their time throughout the project, thinking that they must slow down their work in order to complete it at a high level. They doubt their own ability to work at a quick pace and still complete that work at a high level.

While you do have to slow down some work in order to complete it at a high level, many times, people will slow it down to such an extent that they become less productive than they could be, which will hamper their profitability and even their credibility and reputation. Many people associate the idea of having to work slowly throughout a major project because if they quickly finish off a task or an entire project, they fear people will think that they didn’t put enough focus on it, they worked haphazardly on it, etc. If they work slowly throughout the project, they won’t be accused of not putting enough effort or putting enough attention to detail on it.

The problem with this way of thinking is that people use it as a crutch or excuse to work slower on tasks than they really need to to still complete the work at a high level. Whereas at one time, employers, customers, and target markets cared more about the quality of the project rather than the time it took to complete it, nowadays in our content-driven, fast-paced world, people are looking for both quality and efficiency.

Businesses need quality content and quality products created efficiently on a regular basis in order to survive and thrive. Those employees, independent contractors, and entrepreneurs that take too long to complete quality work will likely be replaced by those who can complete that same level of work at a faster pace, as it’s the only way businesses can gain an advantage over their competitors in this fast-paced world.

Therefore, if you start doubting your ability to do quality work quickly, you will make yourself less efficient than you could be, which will damage your credibility, reputation, and profitability. The key is to remain focused on what you are doing and be confident in your ability to perform and complete high-level work at a rapid pace. There is a reason businesses, customers, and target markets turn to you to perform the work they need done or purchase the products you produce- you are a credible expert in your field, and you need to believe in your own ability to complete tasks and projects at a high level in an efficient period of time to be as successful as you can be.

To your success.

Michael W

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Procrastination is the act of avoiding something on purpose when you want to avoid it. This often occurs when there is a specific task you want to avoid doing because you dread doing it, whether it’s because you’re not very proficient at it or you’re just not fond of the actions necessary to complete the task. Many people think that if they procrastinate, it will help them to avoid the task they want to avoid doing. In truth, however, procrastination will just slow you down and cause you to have to work faster and harder to accomplish the task and any associated project connected with it.

When you procrastinate, you slow down your work by intentionally taking longer to do other work you find more enjoyable in an effort to avoid the work you really don’t want to do. Unfortunately, this will lead to you being less proficient because you are intentionally slowing yourself down on a task that you can do much faster and still produce the same or higher-quality work as when you are procrastinating on it. In addition, it will take you longer to get to the task you are trying to avoid, and if you are not as proficient at it, it’s a likelier bet that you will need longer to do that specific task instead of the more enjoyable one you are working on now.

In effect, you are slowing yourself down in two ways. First, you are slowing yourself down on a more enjoyable task that you could do a lot quicker and still do just as well or better on. Second, you are avoiding a task that might take more focus to complete well, which means that it will take you longer to complete that less enjoyable task. This will result in you either missing the deadline you set to complete your project, or you will rush through the less enjoyable task in an effort to meet the deadline, likely leading to lower-quality work.

As a result, your project will not turn out as well as expected and/or it will be completed later than you anticipated, all because of procrastination. When you procrastinate to avoid a task you are trying to avoid, all you’re really doing is slowing yourself down and leading yourself to perform work that either takes longer than it should take, is not as high of quality as it should be, or both.

To your success.

Michael W

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When people procrastinate, they do it in an effort to avoid an unpleasant or less desirable task they want to avoid doing. They think that if they avoid doing that task, it will be easier to complete the project they are working on. In truth, procrastination only makes you work harder to accomplish the project you are trying to complete.

When you procrastinate, you lose valuable time because you slow yourself down in an effort to avoid the unpleasant or less desirable task you wish to avoid. You cause yourself to slow down on a part of the project that you could be doing a lot quicker and still do at a high level. Due to the fact that you are slowing yourself down on a more desirable task of the project, you take away time you will likely need to complete the less desirable task of the project.

Giving yourself less time to handle the less desirable task of the project is not a good habit to get into. It’s likely that this less desirable task will need more of your focus and concentration in order to do it well. Therefore, it’s likelier you will need more time to complete this part of the project. The fact you subtracted time from the overall project because of your procrastination will lead you to work faster on this less desirable part of the project in an effort to make up for the lost time and still meet the project completion deadline.

As a result, you will be less able to take breaks away from the work because you procrastinated on an easier, more enjoyable portion of the project. This means you’ll have to work even harder and faster on this less enjoyable portion of the project in order to meet your deadline, or you will miss your deadline, which can cause damage to your reputation, credibility, and profitability.

Chances are high that you will also produce lower-quality work on this less enjoyable portion of the project, and the project in whole as a result, because you have to work harder and faster on this portion of the project.

As you can see, procrastination doesn’t help to make your project easier or go more smoothly; on the contrary, it causes you to have to work harder, faster, and fewer breaks than if you avoid procrastination and work diligently throughout the whole project so that you can spend a roughly equal amount of time on each portion of the project, have optimal focus on each portion, and produce your best work for each portion of the project.

To your success;

Michael W

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