18 Bad Habits You Should Break In 2017 To Be More Productive
Work smarter, not harder!
Being more productive is about working smarter, not harder, and making the most of each day.
While this is no easy feat, getting more done in less time is a much more attainable goal if you're not sabotaging yourself with bad habits.
Below are 18 things you should stop doing right now to become more productive.
Hitting the Snooze Button
It might feel like pressing the snooze button in the morning gives you a little bit of extra rest to start your day, but the truth is that it does more harm than good.
That's because when you first wake up, your endocrine system begins to release alertness hormones to get you ready for the day. By going back to sleep, you're slowing down this process. Plus, nine minutes doesn't give your body time to get the restorative, deep sleep it needs.
Prioritizing work over sleep
This isn't to say you should cut back on sleep.
As Arianna Huffington discusses in her sleep manifesto, "The Sleep Revolution," a good night's sleep has the power to increase productivity, happiness, smarter decision-making, and unlock bigger ideas.
Working 24/7 we now know is the cognitive equivalent of coming to work drunk.
The trick for getting enough sleep is planning ahead and powering down at a reasonable time.
Keeping your phone next to your bed
Another key to getting better sleep is not letting outside influencers impair your sleep.
The LED screens of our smartphones, tablets, and laptops, for example, give off what is called blue light, which studies have shown can damage vision and suppress production of melatonin, a hormone that helps regulate the sleep cycle.
Research also suggests that people with lower melatonin levels are more prone to depression.
Skipping Breakfast
Our minds and our bodies are connected in a number of important ways, and getting the fuel we needs doesn't just mean resting up.
As Lisa De Fazio, a healthy-lifestyle expert and registered dietitian, tells, breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
By the time you wake up you likely haven't eaten for 10 or 12 hours, which is where breakfast got its name — it means "breaking the fast," De Fazio says.
Your first meal of the day is what kick-starts your metabolism and replenishes blood-sugar levels so you can focus and be productive throughout the day.
Putting off your most important work until later in the day
People often start off their day by completing easy tasks to get themselves rolling and leave their more difficult work for later. This is a bad idea, and one that frequently leads to the important work not getting done at all.As researchers have found, people have a limited amount of willpower that decreases throughout the day. That being the case, it's best to get your hardest, most important tasks done at the beginning of the day.
Checking email throughout the day
Constant internet access can also lead people to check email throughout the day. Sadly, each time you do this, you lose up to 25 minutes of work time. What's more, the constant checking of email makes you dumber.
Instead, strategy consultant Ron Friedman suggests quitting Outlook, closing email tabs, and turning off your phone for 30-minute chunks of deep-diving work.
Eating Junk Food For Lunch
Maintaining energy levels requires eating a balanced lunch.
High-fat, high-sugar lunches make us sleepy and have low energy by 3 p.m., De Fazio says, so it's important to go heavy on the protein and healthy fats and easy on the carbs when choosing what you eat for lunch.
Luckily, plenty of fast-food chains offer healthy meal options that won't make you pass out at your desk.
Sitting all day
Nilofer Merchant, a business consultant and the author of "The New How: Creating Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy Paperback," shares with TED audiences how she's helped several major companies develop successful new ideas: walking meetings.
She recommends forgoing coffee or fluorescent-lighted conference-room meetings in favor of walking and talking 20 to 30 miles a week.
"You'll be surprised at how fresh air drives fresh thinking, and in the way that you do, you'll bring into your life an entirely new set of ideas," she says.
Multitasking
While many people believe they're great at doing two things at once, scientific research has found that just 2% of the population is capable of effectively multitasking.
For the rest of us, multitasking is a bad habit that decreases our attention spans and makes us less productive in the long run.
Thinking About Your Schedule in Terms of Days or 24 Hours
Laura Vanderkam, a productivity and time management expert and author of "I Know How She Does It," calls this the "24-hour trap," and suggests, alternately, that we think about the time we have to get things done in terms of 168 hours or full weeks.
People always say there aren't enough hours in the day, and I totally agree with you — there are not enough hours in the day, but fortunately we don't live our lives in days — we live our lives in weeks.
If you look at it this way, this gives you far more time — seven days — to get done everything you want and need to get done, which will make you happier and less afraid to start.
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