David,
Excellent tip, I love it. Creating block time seems to be the best tip to make our day productive.

HP,
Interesting thoughts. Planning, having accountability partners, yes, they can all increase our productivity.

Robert,
I agree with you. Just being active doesn’t mean we are productive, and game plan can help us ensure that we are indeed productive.

Beth,
Sometimes I’m guilty of going to too many directions myself :) As you said, focus is what we need to stay on track.

For myself, I have found my greatest productivity tip is to focus on doing only one or two projects at a time. Otherwise, I can go too many directions all at once, lol. I have found I need to record ideas, so that they won’t be lost, but I must also remember to keep on track with the current project.

Atleast it is something that can make me work in an inspiring way fully motivated to get things done. Recently I actually have been inspired to created 6 new Blogspots!!

For a few of them I already found ´Daily Items´ to make it especially interesting for my visitors to have a look at them frequently. Because those ´Daily Items´ are ´streamed´ on it by ´third parties´ it even is interesting for myself to see what´s on them Besides the frequent posts I put on them!

Also one motto that I have heared of is ´Focus on completion, instead of perfection´. Believe me if you have a zillion spelling errors people will tell you! Than you simply make little adjustments towards perfection anyway! It goes without saying that you have to have a certain ballance there, I am only saying that if you get stuck on perfection you might not be able to actually ´DO´ anything.

An interesting ebook about productivity that I like is titled ´Diary Profits´ by Michael Green and Pet Twist. They talk about several interesting ´Planning Tips´ like for example determining a realistic ´Time Scale´, in other words ´simply determine how much time a certain task could take´.

Can be very handy especially if, like me, you are inclined to cram a zillion tasks into a minute. Than I can easily can get frustrated hurting my motivation. Than it can be very useful to first realistically think ´O.K. this taskt takes atleast ….. minutes´ so for now I only focus on tasks A and B than I probably need about …. minutes to complete tasks C and D etc. etc.

Also working with an ´accountability partner´ somebody that can give you feedback can be very helpful. Talking about ´Feedback´, how do you like my 6 new ´Blogspots?´ :)

Feel free to give your comments.

All the Best,
HP

As a “tip” for making one day more productive than the next, I only have one. Create block time. Find a way to carve out at least less four hours with no phones, co-workers, no interruptions of any kind.

Four hours alone, with only one purpose, allows the ability to think, and from thought to create. Four hours also places the responsibility where it belongs, on me. When I realize that I am devoting a half day to a purpose, and I have no excuse, and no way to claim to have been working unless I produce something, then I buckle down.

The time, the thought, the responsibility- those work for me and on me.