# Sharing: 15 Productivity Tips from Dr. Milan

**Published:** October 17, 2023
**Tags:** Tips, Productivity

**Summary:** Fifteen productivity tips from Dr. Milan Milanovic, covering single-tasking, the 3:3:3 plan, daily deep-work blocks, and the Feynman technique for learning something new.


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These are 15 productivity tips from DR. MILAN MILANOVIĆ, a productivity expert. I found them very useful and want to share them with you.

**1\. Focus on ONE thing.** You can block your time in the calendar for everything and try to focus on the current task only.

**2\. Use 3:3:3 Plan.** 3h to work on your most important projects. 3 shorter tasks and 3 maintenance activities.

**3\. Use a deep work practice**, for at least 4h per day, with no distractions (use airplane mode on your phone).

**4\. When learning something new, apply the Feynman Technique**. Pick a subject, attempt to explain it to a 5-year-old, then do more research to fill in any knowledge gaps.

**5\. Organize your duties according to an Eisenhower Matrix**. The aim is to spend more time on vital tasks that advance your long-term values, missions, goals, and principles.

**6\. Processing messages and emails in bulk** one to three times a day.

**7\. If you want to improve in something, do it for 20 minutes per day**. After a year, you will be better than 90% of people.

**8\. Use the Getting Things Done methodology** to track everything you do efficiently.

**9\. Use Zero Inbox Policy.** Get rid of unnecessary emails immediately if the email requires someone else's attention, forward it. If an email takes less than a few minutes to reply, do it directly; otherwise, schedule a time to deal with it.

**10\. Beat procrastination with Pomodoro.** Choose a task, set a timer for 25 minutes, work on it without distractions, take a short break, and do it again. After 4 sessions, take a more extended break.

**11\. Create yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily goals and plans**. Without the goal, you will probably get nowhere.

**12\. Do daily and weekly reviews.** Ask yourself: "What did I do today that was aligned with my goals?" "Can I improve something?"

**13\. Learn to say NO to many things!** One no is yes to many other things.

**14\. Walk for 30 minutes every evening.** Even better, do a walking meditation during this time.

**15\. Automate everything you can.** Try to use different tools to automate everything you can, especially repetitive tasks.

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