50 Productivity And Personal Development Skills For Career And Business

Skills For Before Starting To Work

• Self-awareness and self-exploration to choose the right life goals for yourself

• Figuring out and deciding on your life purpose and direction

• Goal setting to set large, achievable goals that will excite and motivate you

• Intense drive or excitement about achieving your goals

• Planning how you will achieve your goals and outlining a strategy (not to be confused with business planning)

• Focusing your projects by eliminating ones that don’t bring you closer to your goals (not to be confused with ability to focus on an immediate task)

Skills To Be More Productive In Your Daily Work

• Discipline—forcing yourself to work

• Extrinsic and intrinsic motivation

• Building “healthy” productive habits that make work natural

• Identifying procrastination triggers and reversing procrastination

• Boosting your ability to focus on a single immediate task

• Eliminating interruptions

• Organizing your work environment to be more productive

• Time management and realistic scheduling

• Consistent daily work

Boost Intelligence And Brain Function

• Boosting IQ (small improvements possible)

• Boosting EQ (emotional intelligence)

• Boosting creativity

• Learning problem solving

• Logical reasoning, thinking ahead, planning strategically, being aware of logical fallacies

• Boosting memory (memory is underrated in how much it boosts intelligence)

Knowing How And When To Get Help

• Getting coaching

• Joining mastermind groups

• Partaking in peer networking and learning

• Taking advantage of tools like apps, planners, and calendars to improve efficiency

Maintaining Your Health, Physical, And Mental Abilities

• Getting enough sleep and rest

• Maintaining a proper diet, preferably one that boosts brain function and gives you energy

• Exercising regularly for peak mental health and alertness

• Fostering a supportive relationship environment

Management And Leadership Skills

• Leadership of yourself first and foremost

• Leadership of others and building leaders within your organization

• Finding the right business partners and co-founders

• Outsourcing

• Hiring

• Team building

• Meeting productivity and collaboration

• Team productivity and project management

• Process automation, building business systems, and optimizing your business systems to function most efficiently and be replicable

• Decision making and prioritization

• Conflict management and resolution

Psychology, Philosophy, Mindset

• Dealing with pressure

• Stress management

• Building confidence and self-esteem, starting with affirmations (sometimes using overconfidence as a tool)

• Questioning existing methods and finding better ones

Faster Learning And Skill Acquisition

• Retention skills

• Speed reading

• Note taking

• Brainstorming skills

• Application and practice of skills

• Focus on continuing education