Learn how creating systems makes you more productive

1.13   Create Systems

Productivity hack no.13 from '60 Ways to Hurray! by Ralph Varcoe.

There are some tasks that we all have to do regularly. Others are similar in nature.

Say you’re a writer or blogger and one of your goals is to write 3-5 blog posts a week, each of 500-600 words. Each one of the posts needs to be about something your readership will be interested in.

While the topics for each post may be different, there are lots of things that are the same or similar. Let’s break them down:

• Decide on topic area
• Research topic
• Find 3 good references
• Write an introduction
• Tell a story about how the topic has been applied
• Suggest how the reader can benefit from it
• Engage with the readership
• Promote a call to action
• Write a title that’s eye-catching
• Find an appropriate image
• SEO optimise the post
• Publish the post
• Add post to social media schedule app

This process is going to be broadly the same for every post so it would be really useful to have a checklist that ensures consistency every time a post is written and published.

You can do this in other areas of your life too. Practically all areas. Study what you do on a daily basis that’s routine, where things are repeated. Then define the steps that are taken and turn these into your system for completing that task.