Improve Your Productivity With These Simple Habits

Skills and habits are the core of success. When you want to be a successful individual, you need to have the ability to identify opportunities, seize them, and turn them into money-making ventures. You also need to develop the ability to determine how these opportunities should be converted into behaviors that generate the results you desire. The bottom line is this: Without developing the skills and habits that will help you achieve your goals, you can't possibly be successful. So how do you go about developing the kinds of skills and habits that will make you a great success?


It's easier than you think to learn something new, especially if you know what the task is, or think you know what the task is. Successful people learn new skills and habits all the time. When you set aside five minutes right now to review the information in this article, you're already five steps ahead of most people!

So what kind of habits and skills do you need to develop in order to learn something new? There are actually lots of habits and skills. Let's review some of the most common: initiative, motivation, persistence, creativity, and focus. Initiative is probably the most difficult skill to learn. It takes 21 days of consistent effort to get it. If you're willing to put in the work, however, you can discover 21 days of great opportunities waiting for you in the future.

Motivation is a habit, too. It takes a little more effort than initiative, but it's a completely different skill. A little research shows that if you spend five minutes each day, on average, focusing on pursuing a goal that you have no interest in, and you are persistent with your efforts, you can easily accomplish one task or goal per week. If you'd rather put more effort into it, you could even complete one task or goal every single day. These habits and skills can all be learned by simply spending five minutes every day on new skill or habit.

Persistence is another habit. Persistence is what will keep you going when things get tough. Think about all the people who failed at goals and kept trying again, right? They had one thing in common: they weren't persistent. In order to master persistence, it takes 21 days of consistently applying new habits and skills.

The third habit is creativity. This skill is much easier to learn because it requires only a short amount of time each day. You can create something new out of nothing. Whether it's a poem, a song, or a new business idea, the creative mind thrives when new skills and habits are learned.

The final skill we're going to discuss today is the ability to increase your performance level. This is something new, because the best way to learn something new is to try it and see if it works. If something doesn't work, you have to figure out why it didn't work and how you can improve it so it works better the next time. This is where the last and most important habit of improving your productivity comes in.


In order to improve your productivity, you must continually apply new skills and habits. New skills take time to learn and new habits take time to put into practice. Do them one at a time and don't give up. Keep working at them and you'll master the skill or habit faster than you think. Mastering one skill at a time, and adding them to the rest of your skills and habits will dramatically increase your overall ability to produce more and increase your productivity in ways you never imagined.