How to Stay More Productive During Holiday Season
Nobody wants to work during holiday season, as it is a super distracting period of the year. Many employees have plans of shopping and vacations during November and December, and they likely need to take some time off work. Since the holiday season is an ideal travel time for everyone, this can make changing responsibilities incredibly difficult.
Holiday travel plans, parties, family get-togethers and plenty of other things may distract you from work during holiday season. Staying more productive means turning your attention inward, focusing on what you need to be successful instead of thinking about festive season.
Here are some amazing tips that you can follow to stay productive during
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At the end of each workday, check your calendar, if any task didn’t get done, move it to another place and reschedule it. Having a plan means you will be less likely to fail off track by any festive and holiday distractions.
Take a Break
The holiday season is a great time of the year to take a break from work. Some research shows that taking a short break of 10-minute break can increase your productivity. So, it is advised to take advantage of the holiday season to give your brain a much-needed rest. This way you will come back to work with more energy and ready to be ultra-productive in the new year.
Take a Day Off for Shopping
While planning holiday shopping and family get-togethers, you need to find your personal calendar on your work life during the holiday season. Instead of trying to cram personal shopping into your workday, you can schedule a personal day for domestic and personal holiday preparations. This will allow you to focus 100% of your energy and efficiency on your tasks while you are at
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Are you planning to attend them every party or networking event? If that is the case, it can cause unnecessary stress and block your productivity.
You can manage your festive invites smartly. Figure out what is most important for you at the moment. Ask yourself, whether that event is important or can be helpful to achieve your goal. Accepting the invitation just because you don’t want to skip any festive event or hurt the feelings of host can make you fail to meet your project’s deadline or your business goals.
Avoid Procrastination
Throughout the year, you try your level best to never miss a project deadline and get every task done on time. This mindset during the holiday season is not workable. We all perform at our best while under pressure. But during holiday season, so many distractions, events celebrations, personal errands thoughts may come up and this will cause your stress level to be increased to an unnaturally increased level. This can make the holiday season truly intolerable, so avoid procrastination at all costs.
Reduce holiday distractions, stay on track and remind yourself to stay on track. Don’t waste your time, try to accomplish something real and positive every day.
Set Clear
However, as may be expected from our modern society, the custom of giving gifts quickly turned into the practice of exchanging them. If one gives gifts to loved ones at Christmas, the reasoning goes, then those who do not receive gifts from a person are obviously not loved by him/her. So each individual now is required to give a gift to all of his/her friends, or risk communicating to them that s/he no longer loves them -- or perhaps never did! Also, there arises another problem when someone gets a gift from a person to whom they did not give one. The logic here is that the one who gave the gift obviously has a greater love for or places a greater value on the friendship than the one who did not. A decidedly awkward situation arises from this, one can imagine.
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are efficient. But the most effective are create week schedule and plan my work each day because in this two strategies I can make adjustment at the weekend because as we know the weekend is the largest block of spare time, it may be helpful to complete tasks that take longer than planned and I also use the daily activity table with column of tasks prioritizing. The least effective strategies are testing my work each fifteen days and adjusting my plans each day.
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