Micro-Habits: 7 simple and easy hacks to increase your productivity (and your happiness)

Introduction

We live in a world where there are a myriad of things going on at all times. Our phones beep and vibrate, our email inboxes fill up, and we all feel a bit rushed, overwhelmed and stressed out.

Productivity then, is not a field where we need to add things — it’s a matter of taking stuff away.

This article is based in part on the amazing book Essentialism by Greg McKeown, and if you think these ideas are interesting, then his book is a great way to get more information.

Ready?

Let’s go.

1. Turn all notifications off your phone

How many times a day are we interrupted by our phones vibrating, beeping and making noise?

I haven’t exactly counted, but my guess would be a hell of a lot. Our phones steal our attention. They steal our time, and they pull us away from what we’re doing in the moment.

This is bad not only because we are pulled away from the task at hand, but also because it…