“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning,” said American writer Mark Twain, possibly making him history’s first ever productivity expert. Getting your least tempting tasks out of the way as early in the day as possible is good advice, whichever era you’re living in.
But since this quote was coined, the internet has made productivity a lot more complicated, both helping and hindering us from getting jobs done. If you’re prone to distractions, you might see the challenge of becoming more productive as a mountain to climb, but with just a few small tweaks – productivity molehills, if you will – you can give workday efficiency a real boost.
