Do you find yourself really easily distracted? Do you ever have those days where you're
really ready to do some work and be productive and then all of a sudden it's like
wait, what? I'm snap chatting this right now.
Just gonna send
out a tweet. What's happening on Instagram?
Oh, who just tweeted me? Did I send that email? Sound familiar?
I am so easily distracted but I've found a few apps and websites that are
absolute lifesavers and time savers, so in this video, I'm going to
share my favorite productivity apps and tips to help you stay focused
One of the best productivity tips that I've ever heard
is don't check your email first thing in the morning. It's really hard to do
because it much easier to just grab your phone off your bedside table or grab your
phone as soon
as you get out of bed and check your email Facebook Twitter whatever else.
The problem with that is it puts you in a this reactive state where you want
to respond to people
and you want to take care of all of the items in those emails
so that doesn't allow you to actually focus on the bigger projects you have at
hand that day
so my number one tip is don't check your email first thing in the morning
and when you do check your email
manage it in a way that it's not overwhelming for you and one of the best
tools for that
is called unroll.me. So you know all of those newsletters and emails you're
subscribed to you get almost every single day or once a week
they add a lot of clutter to your inbox. So instead of getting these
individual messages in your inbox what unroll.me does is it allows you to
create a list
of those subscriptions and compile them into just one single email
every single so it saves space in your inbox
and saves you a little bit of sanity. Another email lifesaver is Boomerang.
It's an extension that you add to your browser and it works with Gmail
so when you get messages in your Inbox you can check them and make them disappear
and until you want them to reappear in your inbox. So if you're one of those people
like me
who likes your inbox at zero, this is definitely a must have
it keeps your mark clean and tidy
and allows you to address emails when you actually want to you
rather than needing to in the moment. And also great feature a boomerang is
it lets you schedule your replies. So you can write full emails
and schedule them to be sent at a later date or time.
And I've
expressed my love for I've IFTTT on several occasions but I'll do it again in this
video. This is one of my favorite apps
and basically what it does is it creates recipe that make shortcuts
between a bunch of the different apps that you use on your phone
So a couple of my favourites, I've mentioned in this video up here
and I'll put the link below this video as well.
But everything from automating I birthday messages on facebook a congratulations
messages on LinkedIn
or changing Instagram photos to Twitter images
there's so many little short cut that are so valuable so make sure you check out
this app
And when you really need some extra help and can't seem to control your urges to
check social media, then you can use things like Self Control on Mac
and cold turkey on PC and if you really want to take things up a notch you can
actually pay for a program called Antisocial.
Basically what these sites do is they blacklist social media sites for a set
period of time
So you physically cannot access them and you have to
focus on your work at hand.
Evernote is an all-time favorite for me as well, it allows me to
organize my notes,
create checklists and also communicate with clients, coworkers and
subcontractors in a really easy seamless way.
There's a ton more functionalities on this app but I highly recommend it
and my friend Steve Dotto has several videos explaining how to get the most
how to get the most out of Evernote
So i'll link to those videos below here and you can also
check out this video right here from Steve. And one of my tried and true tools is
Hootsuite. There's lots of different functionalities I love about
Hootsuite but probably the most productive part of Hootsuite is being able
to schedule your content ahead of time especially on Twitter
So instead of having to be on Twitter all day long looking for tweets
to send out in real-time. Every morning I go in and check my top industry
publications and my Twitter lists
and I'll schedule my ReTweets and my tweets throughout the day
to keep my Twitter account active and informative but to give myself the
freedom to not be on Twitter 24/7
There's also the bulk scheduler in Hootsuite which allows me to
schedule key brand messages
over months or even over the next year
and you can do it through the template that they provide you with
and for example I'll use it to schedule my youtube videos over the next
couple of months and basically put them in the spreadsheet
upload it to Hootsuite and it will schedule in
however many messages you want all at one time
Another tool I use for collaboration is Google Drive
So I'll upload documents into Google Drive and have my teammates or
my clients be able to contribute to those documents and make edits on them
and so it makes this really collaborative workspace. I also use Dropbox but I find
that Google Drive's functionality a little easier to use
so highly recommend it for sharing documents and getting other people input
on your work
And if you have a hard time remembering all of your different passwords, you have to
try last pass
It manages all of your passwords and autofills them on the accounts and sites that
you use.
But it also generates really difficult random passwords
Instead you creating your password yourself which might be easy to get
and can compromise your security. Thoss are my favorite productivity tips,
apps, and websites. And I'll leave links to everything I mentioned below this
video but I also want to hear yours so what do you use on a day-to-day basis to
help you stay focused? Make sure you comment below this
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