If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. ~ David Allen

How to Measure Your Productivity?

Increase Productivity

How you know whether you are productive or not?

Productivity is the output as results per unit of input as a labor, equipment, and capital.

Another one explanation of productivity can be how much work we have done in specific time unit. For example, how much products we produce in one day, or how much articles we write in two hours, or how much words we can read in one hour…

Every day we make a list with lot of things that we need to do for that day. If your workday is 8 hours if you finish everything on your list, you can say that you have very productive day.

But, it is not true. What, about our wrong expectation for our working day? What if we can do more than the list of tasks for the particular day?

If we take into the consideration other things, we will have very different view of our own productivity. For example, I work from 09:00 AM until 17:00AM, for particular day I have five tasks on my to-do list, and my day looks something like this:

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What is the Productivity?

What is Productivity

What is the real meaning of productivity?

One of the most cited definitions about productivity is that it is the amount of output as results per unit of input as a labour, equipment and capital.

It is total output from one unit of a total input. For example, the numbers of hours as input need to produce a product as output or result from the factory.

Historically, it was and still is one of the most important economically measurement, or indicator of the success of economic systems. But, today it is something that we all need everything around us.

We need it in our personal life. We need it in our business life. We need it in our business. We need it in our team working. We need it in our family. We need it when we work on our computers. The need is everywhere.

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