Productivity

5 Purchases to Boost Your Productivity in 2023

Most productivity systems boil down to these cheap but essential items that you can purchase to have your most productive year so far.

Irtiza Hafiz
6 min readJan 9, 2023

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A productive setup with a water bottle, desk organizer, notebook, pen, and some ambient light.
Photo by Nubelson Fernandes on Unsplash

I have a very simple formula to decide if I had a productive day — look at my task manager and calculate the following metric:

# of tasks completed / # of tasks scheduled

Let’s say I had 8 tasks scheduled for a given day.

I completed 6 tasks.

That’s 0.75 or 75%.

I can call that a fairly productive day because I got more than 2/3rd of my work done.

Most of the hard work is done ahead of time. Every Sunday I plan out the week and distribute work evenly. Of course, come Monday, real life hits me in the face, and there are 10 different things that come up for me to take on.

I take that into account when planning on Sundays.

That’s why I am calling 75% a fairly productive day. Getting more than two-thirds done given the unpredictability of a day is a success.

If I were to boil down all the tools I use to make myself productive to a few essentials…

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Irtiza Hafiz

I write about tech, productivity, intentional living, sustainability, personal finance, heath and other topics related to personal growth.