Subtle Things Highly Productive People Do Every Day

If you check your emails first thing in the morning, **you're setting yourself up to react.

You're not planning your day and prioritizing, you're giving your best hours to someone else's goals, not yours.

Want to be more productive? Don't ask how to make something more efficient until after you've asked "Do I need to do this at all?"

People work an average of 45 hours a week; they consider about 17 of those hours to be unproductive.

1. Manage your moods: If you start the day calm it's easy to get the right things done and focus.
2. Don't check email in the morning.
3. Before you try to do it faster, ask whether it should be done at all.
4. Focus is nothing more than eliminating distractions.
5. Have a personal system; most productive people have a routine.
6. Define your goals for the day the night before.