5 ways to spring clean how you work and boost your productivity
Spring cleaning isn’t just about clearing out your wardrobe or kitchen cupboards. It has several benefits for your business or job, as well as your home.
Spring cleaning how you work will help you focus on what is important, inject energy into your day and boost your productivity.
Here are 5 ways to spring clean how you work and boost your productivity this Spring:
1. Spring clean your goals
It is easy to ‘set it and forget it’ when it comes to your business or professional goals.
Spring is a great time of year to revisit your goals, review your progress and identify your next steps.
These 5 questions can help:
- What have I achieved so far?
- Are my goals still relevant? Do I need to set new goals?
- What are my priorities?
- What are my next action steps?
- What support do I need?
2. Spring clean your website
Spring is a good time to carry out a website review to ensure your website is up-to-date and showcasing your current products and services.
Check whether your copy or images need updating to align more closely with your target audience.
Check for these 3 things:
- Does your website easily show your core (or new) products and services and how you help?
- Is it intuitive and easy to navigate around?
- Is it easy for customers to book or buy from you?
3. Spring clean your email
Spring is a great time to think about good email management.
An organised and clutter-free inbox will help you focus on your most important work.
Rules and folders will keep low-priority messages from interrupting your workflow throughout the day.
Cancel subscriptions and unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and blogs.
While you are clearing out your inbox, you may want to do some other digital decluttering.
Go through folders and files on your computer and rename, reorganise or remove unnecessary documents. This will help free up physical, as well as mental space.
4. Spring clean your workspace
Decluttering your physical and digital workspaces will create a feeling of order and bring more clarity and calm to your working environment.
As the saying goes, “A tidy desk is a tidy mind.”
Keep only essential items on your desk. Store your frequently used items in the top drawer of your desk or a nearby box or shelf.
File paperwork into folders or an in-tray.
Remove anything that creates visual clutter or distractions.
Add some plants or fresh spring flowers to your desk or workspace for a Spring boost.
5. Spring clean your mindset
As Henry Ford’s saying goes “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you’re right.”
Turn your niggles of self-doubt into ‘I can’ affirmations.
Build positive and productive habits and let go of habits that are not serving you.
Think about where you are spending time within your business.
Do these areas energise you or drain you?
Do they bring you closer to your goals?
Spring cleaning the way you work will help you focus on what matters, helping you to be more organised, energised and productive. This will help spring you into action this Spring!
5 ways I can help you spring clean how you work and boost your productivity:
Workplace decluttering & organising visit
I will visit your workspace and help you create a clutter-free and productive working environment, so you can focus and enjoy where and how you work more. (for Sussex-based business owners or freelancers only)
ENERGISER business coaching programme
Built around the 4 essential pillars of clarity, communication, productivity and wellbeing, ENERGISER is guaranteed to energise you and your business!
Goal setting and action planning
Create and achieve your business goals with an action plan to guide and grow your business.
Banish email overwhelm, gain control of your inbox and boost your productivity.
Make your website work better for your business by improving its content, design and usability.
