How To Make Your Day More Rewarding
Focus on More Rewarding Work
Productivity is a result of the commitment to excellence, great planning, and focused effort. You must have the intent to do some rewarding work, develop a plan, and execute it.
A productive life is made up of countless rewarding days that do not just happen. It takes the calculated steps.
What Defines a Rewarding Day?
Rewarding means something valuable and satisfying that yields a reward. A rewarding day is made up of experiences and actions that give you satisfaction and bring you benefits.
Your most rewarding day comes from achieving the most from your productive efforts.
At the end of a rewarding day, you are fulfilled and content.
You go to bed with the impression: there would have been no other better way to spend my day. Every opportunity to make your day more rewarding is a gold mine worth seizing.
What Do You Need to Do to Make Your Day More Rewarding?
1. Revitalize
To be up and running at your optimal performance tomorrow, you need enough rest tonight. You must start your journey to your amazing day with the night prior.
Get enough rest and prepare for your day. Wake up fresh and rejuvenated in anticipation of your best day ever.
2. Wake Up Early
You cannot afford to hit the snooze button. You factored in the extra 10 minutes by sleeping enough last night.
Avoid the unnecessary pressure of almost getting late or missing deadlines. You cannot exhibit your leadership by storming into appointments late gasping for air.
Get up early. It will allow you enough time to get ready for the day and remain in control: a wholesome, healthy breakfast, and quality time for your morning routine.
3. Get a Good Morning Routine
One of the best assets that will earn you a rewarding day is creating and maintaining a good morning routine. Great leaders and CEOs have one thing in common.
They get up early, exercise, enjoy a good breakfast, and skim through their inboxes to find the most urgent tasks.
You could read a piece, write something down to warm up your mind for the day ahead. No matter what works best for you, creating a good morning routine.
It will go beyond granting you a positive mental attitude to making your day more rewarding.
4. Plan Your Day
After a winning morning routine, it is time to plan your day. You cannot let your day unfold without boundaries and a planned layout. It only encourages disorientation at the expense of disciplined objectivity.
Identify the tasks which must be executed within the day. They could be individual tasks or continuous ones that lead up to a project.
5. Prioritize
You must keep the main business the main business. Rewarding work demands that you protect your focus.
With so many intertwined tasks and upcoming updates, it is so easy to get distracted.
Avoid building up pressure from feeling there is so much to do that you do not know where to start.
List everything you need to do and prioritize the tasks in order of importance and urgency.
Clear the most pressing issues first. You will earn yourself a productive day.
6. Complete Mini-Projects
What project are you working towards this month or quarter? Divide it into mini projects by week goals and subdivide this into daily tasks.
A few hours to finish one creative endeavor every day will bring you satisfaction.
Strengthen your skills and make your day more rewarding by adding mini-projects into your daily routine.
7. Check Off One Task at a Time
Focus on One thing at a time. You can start and finish your mini project in a short period of time, or it could require a long-term commitment.
As difficult as it may be, your leadership is enhanced by sticking with a heavy project.
It makes your days more fulfilling when you break down the big project into manageable tasks and check off one item from the list each day.
8. Get Yourself a Happy Break
Now that you do not spend your days in a relaxed state of bliss give yourself a break.
You give your best efforts to ensure your days result in rewarding work that earns you those coveted business and professional rewards. You work hard, so take a break.
You do not have to wait until you’re feeling drained.
As energized as you may be, take a moment to unplug and breathe. Grab a coffee, step out for a nature walk, or take a power nap!
Whatever clears your mind, just do it for you.
9. Manage Your Time in an Effective Manner
In a rewarding, oddly satisfying day, you do not have free time. You have structured free time to unwind.
Whatever most people call free time is actually some unstructured time that is wasted.
Achieving so much in less time is what tips off the scale to earn you a rewarding day characterized by loads of rewarding work.
After allocating time slots to your pending tasks, use the breaks effectively. Increase the quality of your low-intensity time.
You can read the news as you grab a coffee or make a personal call as you take a walk.
Make every minute of your day count; that is the secret of making your day more rewarding.
10. Celebrate and Reflect
Regardless of what defines rewarding work and a productive day for you, take time to celebrate what you have accomplished.
Get yourself a reward to keep you motivated to continue doing the great work. A reward system is a remarkable motivator.
Before you revitalize for the next day, reflect on your day.
Identify what worked for you and what didn’t. It will increase your future productivity and give you time to clear your head.
Conclusion
Now that you know just how to make your day more rewarding get to it! It will require deliberate effort and discipline on your part.
A strategy for dividing, prioritizing, and completing tasks while retaining control sets you on the right path.
With proper planning, scheduling proper time management, you will enjoy rewarding work and get things done faster and better.
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About the Author
Eugen Spivak is a multi-award-winning author, business strategist, and a business coach. Eugen is the founder of the Canadian Institute of International Business, an organization dedicated to bringing practical and hands-on business education for modern business leaders.