Radiant Organizing
Owner Sara Caputo works with professionals, entrepreneurs, work teams, small businesses, and entire organizations to regain control and find better balance. We do this through training, teaching, consulting, coaching and speaking about productivity and efficiency in all areas of life.
Your Challenges
Your team is working hard, but they don’t seem to have the right systems in place, they aren’t as efficient or effective as they could be, and you aren’t sure how to tap into it.
Your Solution
We support you to identify where breakdowns occur within your personal and business organizational systems, which can crush employee motivation and your bottom line results.
Based on our revolutionary signature program, the Productivity Puzzle, we help identify your specific needs and goals, while providing you the tools to create targeted solutions for increasing your productivity and efficiency in all areas of your life.
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5 HABITS OF HIGHLY PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE
We’ve heard of The Habits of… successful people, successful organizations, or even successful dieters. After working with thousands of people over the years on increasing productivity and efficiency in their work and home lives, here are 5 Habits of Productive People.
1. Get up earlier. There is an old Chinese Proverb that says "Three early risings make an extra day". I couldn't agree more. Productive people understand the value of that extra time in the morning and how it immediately moves them into a PROactive mode versus REactive mode for more of the day. Simply put, in order to wake up earlier, you have to go to bed earlier. Get a plan in place on how to end the day and beginning the next day will be much easier.
2. Plan your work, work your plan. In order to be productive and get things done, you have to know what you need to get done. Productive people are usually in process on a defined plan or in the midst of reaching a defined goal simply because they have taken the time to think it through and planned their work. Then they work their plan. If you want to get more done, have a plan for your day and know that if you want to play hard, it's smart to first work hard. Try this: write down all of your to-do’s for the day and cross as many of them off as possible in the 16+ hours that you’re awake. You will find that you accomplished more that day than the last few combined… I promise.
3. Create boundaries where there aren't any. Most people have exterior imposed boundaries already around them (what time they have to be at work, what time they leave work, what time the kids get picked up, etc). Productive people take this one step further and create even more boundaries around their time by giving themselves time structures where are none. Ultimately what this means is learning to “Say No” and let go of the small things that don't matter. Your time is your time and you don’t have to Say Yes just because you’re asked. You would be surprised at how understanding people are when you say No. More pearls: create time blocks for your projects that you work on at your desk; use a timer when going through email so you don't get too sucked in; and if you work for yourself and have no "real" end to your day... create one!
4. Use technology with intention. In today's 24/7 all-access world, it's impossible to avoid technology and if you want to increase productivity you surely don't want to. I would venture to say that most people use technology to get their work and themselves ahead and stay on top of all the balls in the air, right? I say, use technology, but not unnecessarily. Productive people understand the value in taking necessary respites from technology. Consider an all techno-free weekend. If that makes you nervous, create boundaries (see #3 above) for when you browse the web or spend time on your favorite social media sites during your workday. And by all means if you are checking email on your phone next to your bed in the middle of the night - you might want to consider unplugging and letting your brain have a break.
5. Better done than perfect. Some of us have this little thing called perfectionism that has a tendency to get in the way of ever actually completing anything because obviously nobody can do it better than us! I'm being a bit snarky there, but you get the point. I also like the phrase “analysis paralysis” when talking about this problem of wanting things to be done perfectly which leads to overanalysis which leads to paralysis which leads to an incomplete project. It's important to understand that perfectionism halts anything at about 90% because it just isn't quite right and then we lose steam and move onto the next thing. So the end result is essentially failure to launch, right? I say, set reasonable goals with reasonable deadlines to accomplish those goals before your Perfectionist brain takes over and you lose steam. I always tell my clients "Progress, not perfection!”