7 Things Highly Productive People Do

Get distracted too much? Tempted to check facebook, email or reply to text messages while studying or at work. This is Multi-Tasking!! - a phenomenon that seriously disrupts your quality as well as quantity of work. Here are some useful tips given by Tony Wong, (a project management blackbelt whose client list includes Toyota, Honda, and Disney);

Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks:Break down the work into smaller and smaller chunks until you have specific tasks that can be accomplished in a few hours or less: Sketch a wireframe, outline an introduction for the homepage video, etc. That’s how you set goals and actually succeed in crossing them off your list.
Stop Multitasking: Doing more than one thing at the same time reduces your IQ!! At an average, it drops by a level of 10! 15 for men while 5 for women..
Be "militant" at eliminating distractions:Lock your door, put a sign up, turn off your phone, texts, email, and instant messaging. In fact, if you know you may sneak a peek at your email, set it to offline mode, or even turn off your Internet connection. Go to a quiet area and focus on completing one task.
Schedule your email: To save productivity , set particular timings (two or three, according to your work type) in which you may check our email or socal network profiles :)
Use the phone. Email isn’t meant for conversations. Don’t reply more than twice to an email. Pick up the phone instead.
Work on your own agenda:After you wake up, drink water so you rehydrate, eat a good breakfast to replenish your glucose, then set prioritized goals for the rest of your day.
Work in 60 to 90 minute intervals:Plan your breaks efficiently. Human brain uses up its glucose in 60-90 minutes and that's when you start losing concentration, efficiency and feeling tired. Take a break, go out for a walk, have a snack or any healthy activity that recharges you.

One must always keep slack times in his schedule for these breaks and any unprecedented issues.