Who did not encounter the feeling that there are not enough hours in the day to do everything. Cases that should last a few minutes, stretched on the clock, and at this time, accumulate more and more tasks. Usually, to deal with this, we linger after work or even work on weekends. As a result - fatigue, stress and burnout. But what if you change your approach?
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## Classic time management does not work

We used to believe that by working for eight hours or more, we will increase our productivity, impress colleagues and managers. However, Alex Suchzhon Kim Pang, a psychologist and author of "The Rest: Why we do more when we work less," believes that the processing does not help us to be more productive and find a creative approach to problem solving.

>    Productivity increases if we work overtime only occasionally. If we do this constantly, we begin to make mistakes more often and all our labors go wrong.
    **Alex Soojung-Kim Pang**

Even a traditional working day is not equivalent to high productivity. In 2014, a Latvian IT-company conducted a study of the habits and the secret of the 10% most productive people? Breaking! . It turned out that the most productive employees did not stay long in the office until late - they did not even always work for eight hours a day. The secret of their productivity was that for every 52 minutes of concentrated work they had 17 minutes of rest.

Try to rebuild your work day. For example, break it into several 45-minute stretches and try to be as productive as possible at these intervals. In order not to lose attention and energy, allocate time not only for work, but also for breaks, such as sports and meditation.

>    Rest during the working day helps to reduce the level of stress, and therefore increases productivity.

## How to increase your productivity

### 1. Work without distraction

To do this, you can isolate themselves from everything and immerse themselves in a single task or use the "journalistic" approach, using for any convenient moment during the day. The main thing is to determine how much time you can work without losing concentration, and in accordance with this, build your day.  

### 2. Review your approach to the to-do lists

Very detailed lists are ineffective, they only deprive motivation. Most likely, during the day you expect a lot of unexpected, so try not to plan everything to the last minute, and leave in place the schedule for improvisation.  

### 3. Give yourself time to rest

According to Cal Newport, author of "Stop dreaming, get busy!" And "The work with the head of" doing nothing - it is not self-indulgence, or vice. It is just as necessary for our brain as the body needs vitamin D. Paradoxically, it is idleness that helps us to work. When the brain switches between a focused and relaxed state, we work more efficiently.

### 4. Benefit from energy slumps

In the middle of the morning, immediately after lunch and in the afternoon, productivity usually declines. Arrange at such moments a break to relax or let the brain calmly think.

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