REFLECTION PAPER

By: Princess Marie A. Juan

Keeping yourself focused every day to complete a task is quite hard. Doing everything as quickly

as possible and manages to finish long tasks in a small span of time is really tiring. It was said that “Being

productive is about maintaining a steady, average speed on a few things, not maximum speed on

everything.”. Unexpectedly, there are things that came to my mind after reading an article on how to be

more productive every day.

In order to be productive - one must focus first on the most important tasks, cultivate deep work

and keep a distraction list to stay focused. Focusing on important tasks includes managing our energy. It

will help us understand which time of the day suites our tasks. For an instance, whenever I review my

lessons, I choose doing it at night till dawn because I’m more comfortable with a quiet environment to

focus on understanding certain topics while my days are spent in doing my assignments and activities

because I’ll feel sleepy if I’ll do it at night. While my morning routine is keeping myself entertained by

watching Chinese Dramas and having conversation with the people I love to talk to. Cultivating a deep

work is not easy but I’ve come to realize that leaving my phone off helps in avoiding wasted time in

doing meaningless tasks and finding a cool place is one of the best way to finish tasks. I’ve tried not

using my phone several times but unfortunately I usually can do this for an hour or two but It really

works because my focus is not diverted to my social media applications. Sometimes I also make time to

go out and find a good place for me to do my task. I usually do this when examination is approaching by

going the café near our place. Keeping a distraction list to stay focus is also a good thing in keeping

productivity. For years I’ve been so addicted with organizing all my things by making a to-do-list in my

planner and this helped me a lot.

Being productive is quite difficult but if we learn to appreciate how it’ll make a difference in our

life it will definitely make us proud of ourselves. We often think that we should be able to do a lot of

things in a day to be productive but I’ve realized that Productivity means completing important things

consistently and efficiently manages time.