How We Made Our Workflow 10x More Productive! | Business

How We Made Our Workflow 10x More Productive!! | Business

Happy Thursday, dear friends!! It’s just all about those Business goals this week! Do you ever have those times where you just feel overwhelmed? You have weddings, clients, or boxes to get out and it just feels like you can’t do it all? Work is a blessing, but when it comes down to it, it is sometime hard to balance! Especially when you work for yourself, than it is EXTREMELY hard to balance work and life! When we hit those areas of struggling to keep focused on a task that our hearts are in to, we pull out some trusty tools that work AMAZING for working under pressure!

It is so easy to just hop on Instagram or Facebook…trust us, we probably check new Snapchat stories every 5 minutes! But that doesn’t really help you finish your massive to do list, am I right?  Yet, you can’t put it in the other room or turn on the airplane mode because what if you get a call that is important? Its a frustrating balance between working and life, but we have found a few solutions that are great for this! We have found a few products that have helped us with creating a SMOOTH workflow to help INCREASE our productivity!

First, how do we do this?  The Pomodoro Technique!  Now what on earth do I mean by this? Honestly, I heard of this idea before but I just didn’t know there was actually a name for this work ethic technique! The Pomodoro Technique is simple! You work hard for 20 minutes, no distractions!! As grandpa Ray always said, put your nose to the grindstone, and get those goals checked off! Once you hit your time, you reward yourself with a 5 minute break!

You can do whatever you want. You could dance to your favorite new jam, you could go outside to get some sunshine, or check your favorite apps! Then you repeat this for an hour! Once you hit an hour, you can either treat yourself to a 10 minute break! Or work hard for some extra time to get a 15 minute break after two hours! We try to use this on days when we have a lot of office work we have to do! It also is really great to do this at your local coffee shop, because you could break and grab some fresh coffee along with a snack. 🙂

There are a TONS of apps out there to help you focus and most of them are free, yet we found that these two apps are wonderful!! APPS: Be Focused or Taskler!

Most of our have timers on our phones, but this timer for your desktop is AMAZING. You can either do a clock or a countdown timer! It has a quiet alarm when the timer is done with the time you set; it is perfect if you want to set the alarm following the Pomodoro Technique!

Desktop: Timer for Mac

The last tip is breaking down your goals! REALLY breakdown your goals that you want to accomplish in that month! Instead of saying, “update website,” say “cull wedding gallery and anniversary gallery photographs for website.” This is really helps with breaking down what you need to get accomplished! Then you’re not staring at your t0-do list and not getting anything done. Smaller lists = BIG accomplishments!