How would you invest an extra working day each week?

It’s the option we’d all love to have, and with some purposeful changes it is within your grasp.

What’s the ideal productivity improvement goal for you? It is a personal thing, and for the bold and adventurous 20%+ is achievable (translated to an extra working day each week).

Six months ago I started measuring my daily Productive Time Investment, or 'PTI' to create a fancy acronym. This is the time invested in truly productive activity (not 'stuff'), and there was a 21% increase over the period, measured just on invested time (PTI) and not outputs, which naturally vary for me.

The posted photo is my PTI scoreboard for this week (so I was bad at art...). I have a goal to invest 40+ true productive hours, from 8 February, with daily hours noted in different colours. At 32 hours now I’ll look to hit my target on Saturday morning, which is okay by me. Sunday Valentine’s Day lunch with my wife is the downtime zero score day :)

Some quick pointers:

- have a visual scoreboard

- employ the carrot and stick approach

- use techniques to focus, and manage distractions

- keep improving your tech and how you use it

- savour your precious downtime

If you’d like to really work on increasing your ‘PTI’ in 2021 we’d love to help.