Dare yourself & increase your productivity

 

“Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.”

------ Margaret Thatcher 

Do you endeavour to ensure that your daily routine and to-do list does not thrust unnecessary load on you? Do you exert yourself to work harmony with pre-determined timetables? Do you work with the sole intended objective of boosting your output? In other words, do you accept challenges at work?

Challenges become impediments only when you accept them as such. And the more daunting they are, the glory in overcoming them will be of a high order. Life’s challenges are not supposed to numb you; on the contrary, they are supposed to help you discover who you are.

At work, if you are facing a new challenge or have been asked to do something that you have never done, you should not be scared; you will eventually realize that your capability far exceeds your estimate of yourself. Research has proved that if you do not have a hectic and demanding agenda, besides suffering from dejection and tension, you will have to your credit unfinished assignments. Needless to say, these, in no way facilitate improved efficiency. A highly out-stretched routine can result in great and extra accomplishments. Why? The reasons are:

·   Feeling of exigency:  If you have a hectic routine and a long to-do list, you will harbour an inclination to accord priority to them – both in terms of efforts to be put in and the need to meet deadlines. If you have additional assignments at hand, you will try to mange time to the optimum, rather than frittering it away. Resultantly, you keep regarding your work as your top and main concern; and maintain the desired spotlight on it. Your efficiency and productivity invariably registers a boost if you keep your work and intended end-results as the centre of your attention. And it is a known fact that if you pay greater attention to any issue, the chances of botching it up stand greatly reduced.

·   Heightened oomph: You would have experienced this if you have a tight schedule. Keenness, eagerness and hope are causative factors for increased get-up-and-go. It is no wonder why organizations give sabbaticals to their employees – breaks and time-offs help you unwind and come back with greater zeal to perform and execute. The reason is that if you have too much to do, your priorities are straight and efforts concentrated. A natural outcome is that interruptions and disturbances are of little consequence; and thus you obviously improve upon your usual output. When all is said and done, your recompense and incentive are being able to mull over your attainments. Needless to state, but important is the point that under such circumstances, they would be definitely superior. And most significantly, you will not harbour any feeling of remorse, had you been a lazy-bone.

·   Encouragement by advancement:  You will always have feelings of happiness and contentment if you attain anything, big or small. Such feelings impel you to keep working hard and have more laurels to your credit. If your inspiration is genuine and comes from within, the pleasures that follow after successful completion of a task or project are indeed great. Therefore, efficient functioning, implying more productivity is an automatic product if the impetus to perform originates from your inner self. It is a known fact that any work done under intimidation or enforced circumstances do not generate true enthusiasm and in the bargain, true satisfaction is not derived. There can be nothing more encouraging than being efficient and consequently a witness to achievements. Evidently, such developments boost self-assuredness and you are better poised to take up various work challenges.

It is an across-the-board relevance to all workplace environments that you will not be able to attain anything worthwhile if the going is not tough. Your schema of action and to-do list has to be demanding, though an easy routine may not be nerve-racking and exasperating. If you seek to be competent and proficient, then there is no short cut that you can take. You have to continually keep excelling, more so under challenging situations. The key to life is accepting challenges and if you do not, you will be more or less no more. So, dare yourself and increase your productivity.