How to Own Your Day, Get Stuff Done, and Crush Productivity

Plan, Prioritize, and Partition your way to success.

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Originally appeared on Ell Business

Productivity is currently one of the workplace’s hottest topics, especially on the heels (or toes?) of a global pandemic. Since we all began wearing masks, this brave, new, remote world has seen a 12x increase in the time employees spend working from home.

If you’re not brainstorming ways to make yourself more personally productive, you’re likely creating apps to help others do so. Yet in our productivity-obsessed culture, some people continue to accomplish more in a day than others do. What are they doing that you don’t and how can you become more personally productive?

Time Will Never Be on Your Side

We all have the same twenty-four hours in a day, but some people make those hours count for more. Most people aren’t good at managing time. It’s too easy to take a break and pull up TikTok, thinking you’re going to watch the one video your friend sent you, only to spend half an hour allowing TikTok’s algorithm to pump your visual cortex full of videos it knows you’ll like.

Social media apps have hacked and hijacked your attention, and they’re not alone. The workplace is dark…