It’s without question that the sole reason for procrastination is distractions. They are entirely what make the key difference between you becoming a procrastinating perfectionist or mastering your productive efficiency!
That is why your environment plays a key role in your success.
For you to venture onto the road to success, your workspace, whether that be outside in the garden, your office or even your own room needs to encourage you to work consistently and efficiently. It is fundamentally the foundation for you to get work done and is what will determine how easy it is for you to be productive or drowned in procrastination!
There are so many ways that you can set up your workspace to be a more stimulating environment for productivity. Just considering things like:
These are just a few of the factors scraping the surface of what’s impacting your productivity in your workspace. Just have a look at more ways to improve your workspace for maximum productivity below!
The environment and workspace in which you work in has a huge role in your productivity. For you to maximise it, there needs to be little to no distractions affecting you!
What would you consider as a distraction you may ask? Well there’s so many obvious and dangerous ones to look out for, particularly:
When it comes to noise and chatter, obviously don’t tell whoever it is near you to go away, especially if it’s from your family. Simply closing your door if your in your room or telling them to lower their voice will help create a quiet and more ambient environment.
As a matter of fact, it’s possible to get some soundproofing foam to help absorb any noise in your room. It’s certainly thinking outside of the box, but definitely worth looking into for those of you struggling from loud noises while working!
With phones and videogames, especially stress toys such as a slinky or fidget spinner which pose as digital distractions, these can definitely lure you into using them, making it harder to work! That’s why locking them in a safe or removing them from your sight will help to make it easier to get less distracted!
Remember that these are dangerous procrastination tools and it’s so important in this day and age where social media and technology particularly are so popular to be able to control your pleasure to use them. You can check out a few simple ways to overcome procrastination right here as well!
Aesthetics are a real success maker when it comes to the environment in which you work.
If it’s in your room, you need to think of ways to make the environment more welcoming and encouraging so that you can keep your thinking cap on and work more consistently without losing focus.
This can include adding some nice lighting to help relieve and focus the mind – Salt lamps work perfectly for this!
It could be adding some greenery to your room, particularly flowers and plants, which are proven to be beneficial for also calming the mind and relieving stress.
Even something like going to the park, garden or outdoors in general to study is a great way to indulge in a more mentally stimulating environment. That’s because a more open environment full of greenery and fresh air is great for the mind to concentrate and engage in deep thinking and intuitive thinking to help with work.
There was a study which involved 50 affluent millionaires who were brought together which I found who had been asked what they had used to keep track of their productivity and success.
It turned out that 49 out of 50 of them put up a notepad in the air or mentioned some sort of notebook to track what their goals and daily tasks.
The point is that it’s clear that tracking what you do in your daily life is a great way to train your mind to be a productive icon and can serve as a perfect success maker!
So how could you go about using a notebook or notepad?
Every night before going to bed, write down the essential tasks and goals that you want to achieve the next day.
During that day, simply ticking off what you have done and tracking what you need to do will ensure that you don’t have to depend on your mind to keep track of everything – This can often be over-whelming and is a great reason why we end up procrastinating!
If you have to put up a timetable on your office wall or keep one glued to your desk as a constant reminder of what you need to do, then so be it!
As long as you find a way to track your progress, your journey on the road to success in the future will be certain!
Laziness can lead to major productive struggles and the tendency to resist doing a lot essential tasks which you’d think are easier than they actually appear to be. Tidying your workspace is one of them!
You might thing that keeping your room or office clean is a very simple thing to keep on top of, but you’d be surprised how many people keep their workspaces looking like a pig-sty…
Keeping your workspace clean essentially links to the idea of creating a more mentally-stimulating environment.
Especially for those of us with even just a little touch of OCD, having clothes littered on your floor, crumbs from a packet of crisps from last night messing up your work desk and even an unhoovered carpet can be incredibly distracting when you’re trying to work – More specifically a barrier to critical thinking and hard-work!
So just taking some time to sort out your room and make sure it’s presented neatly and in clean manner can really help you concentrate on whatever work you’re trying to do!
Who you surround yourself with will most certainly impact how you behave and act. If you choose to spend time around bad friends, whether that be those who have no intention to learn or compassionate friends who care for your well-being and want you to be the best person you can be, you will inevitably inherit their behaviours.
So if you want to be productive, whether that be in something like learning how to make money for example, surround yourself with a group of friends who are hungry to make money as well.
Whether that’s in learning to start a business, investing or starting a website, you will be able learn from one another, boosting your productive efficiency!
The same can go for studying for exams as another example. Spend time in a workspace or environment filled with people keen to learn and help one another, instead of people who want to drag you down to their level where they cause you to procrastinate.
You may have friends who are like this at times – You want to work, but they might ask you to hop on the Playstation to hang out with them. Simply saying no and telling them to spend time with them another time is all it takes to resist these bad habits.
After all, just remember that they are your friends; they don’t need to be banished entirely from your life. When it comes to work, spend time with people with similar interests and when it comes to relaxing do the same thing.
It’s all about balance!
Working hard and living your life are fundamental to living a fulfilling life. While it’s important to be super productive, it’s also equally as important to relax, spend time with family and have social awareness!
Your workspace can help facilitate this balance…
While your environment, whether that be your office, garden, library or study group needs to be mentally stimulating to increase your productive efficiency, it also needs to have elements that are relaxing and help you to take a break after long-periods of hard work and burn-outs.
These things don’t need to be in the same workspace of course, but can be introduced when moving from one environment to another!
Of course you can have a system where you can turn on ambient lighting or some nice music after some hard-work to relieve any stress or simply going to another room to watch TV or socialise with friends can be a great way to take a break!
Your workspace is not solely limited to where you put in the work, but also to what is available around you!
Maybe after some office work, going to the garden or living room to sit and relax is another great way to find that balance between consistent hard work and calming the mind!
Because, just remember that working 24/7 is not going to increase your productive efficiency, but starve your brain of energy, which is not good for your mental health!
Setting up your workspace in a way that can introduce consequences if you don’t complete a task or piece of work is a great way to boost your productive efficiency!
Removing the TV on your desk and leaving it outside of your office or room for example until you’ve done your work can help introduce discipline.
Getting a safe and locking your valuables, whether it’s your phone or Xbox will force you to have to resist these items that give you pleasure as well.
Even something like telling your mum to hide any distracting goods until you’ve done your homework is a great way to discipline yourself and train your mind to be productive and concentrate!
It’s stuff like this that can really make the difference between you procrastinating and opening that gateway to success and achieving your dreams and goals!
