If you pay close attention to Business Insider's Strategy and Careers verticals, you'll notice we frequently share productivity tips from an expert we've just interviewed, a book we've just read, or new research we've just scoured.
And we admit it can be a little daunting to keep up with all the productivity advice out there.
So since you're here to learn how to make better use of your time, we thought we'd save you some and round up the best productivity tricks.
To do this, we asked some of the experts we trust to share how they get it all done.
Here's their favorite advice on being more productive:
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Immediately do any task that presents itself that would only take one minute to complete
"Follow the 'one-minute rule' and do any task that can be finished in one minute. Hang up your coat, read a letter and toss it, fill in a form, answer an email, note down a citation, pick up your phone message, file a paper ... and so on.
"Because the tasks are so quick, it isn't too hard to follow the rule — but it has big results. Accomplishing all those small, nagging tasks makes us feel both calmer and more energetic because we're not dragged down by the accumulated weight of a mass of tiny, insignificant tasks."
— Gretchen Rubin, author of "Better Than Before" and "The Happiness Project"
Associate something you love with something you want to accomplish
"Pick a ritual that you love — for me this ritual is the morning coffee — and connect it to a productivity-related activity. In my case, it has to do with writing.
"So I connect something I love, which is the coffee ritual, to something else that I love in principle, but not every moment of it, which is writing. It's an almost conditioned response, where I start working and I'm enjoying the coffee and the writing at the same time."
— Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke and author of "Payoff"
Protect your thinking time
"I like to schedule my time for deep thinking on hard and important problems on my calendar like a meeting or appointment. I then protect that time like a meeting or appointment: If someone tries to schedule something in it, I tell them I'm busy.
"This simple technique allows me to tune the amount of time I spend in a state of deep work with great accuracy, increasing during some periods and decreasing during others, and provides a clear record of the role these types of efforts are playing in my schedule."
— Cal Newport, associate professor of computer science at Georgetown University and author of "Deep Work"
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