SEVEN (7) HABITS YOU CAN USE TO BOOST PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY IN 2025

Benjamin Franklin, a renowned scientist, writer, statesman, and diplomat, once said, ‘By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail’. As 2024 is coming to a close, one certain thing is that you wish to have a better 2025. You want to excel in every area of your life financially, spiritually, materially, and otherwise.

A good way to start is by reflecting on how you spent 2024. You want to take a proper look at activities, habits, and mistakes you handled this year that affected your progress and efficiency. It all begins with awareness, knowing what you did right and wrong so you can plan a better 2025 for your success.Here are certain habits that can make you successful in the coming year:

1. Skill Acquisition:
One of the profound ways to enhance your chances of becoming successful is through skill Acquisition. Another word for it is self-development.
Deciding to obtain a new set of skills can be a great game-changer for you in 2025. Some skills you can learn include data analysis, copywriting, digital marketing, tailoring/fashion designing, search engine optimization (S.E.O.), artificial intelligence, public speaking, content creation, etc

2. Networking:

Success also depends on the network of friends you have and how you interact with people, how you win friends and influence people also has a great impact on the productivity in your life. Paying close attention to how you build relationships with people above and below you in society can be the key to your elevation in the year to come. The quality of attitude you possess toward people can also determine how much people are willing to employ, collaborate, or assist you.

3. Reading:
The world thrives on information, and one way you can be different from the average person is to acquire knowledge.
Equip your mind. What you know can change the cause of your life, knowledge is power and so it’s expedient you make reading books a habit. There are also many benefits of reading. It can help you improve critical thinking, your mental capacity, and vocabulary and expand your knowledge.

4. Time management:
Time management is a crucial skill you have to develop. You have to value your time. Allocating our time to doing meaningful activities can result in us having a meaningful life. How we spend our time has the power to determine the quality of our lives. If we spend it on unreasonable events that have no or less value, the result in our lives will certainly reflect a life with less value.

5. Priorities:
One of the major problems for so many setbacks and stagnation in life is a misplacement of priorities. We most likely major on the minor and minor on the major.
One way we can make 2025 a great year is by setting our priorities right and focusing our time on doing things which is of a higher value to us than spending our time on things with lesser value.

6. Goal Settings:
This is another crucial area of concentration. Identifying what you want to achieve in the coming year and writing them down, and also writing step-by-step plans on how you can achieve them is key to your success.
You need to set clear goals according to the order of priorities and make plans and guards on how you can achieve them.

7. Discipline:
The late Jim Rohn, one of America’s foremost Speakers and the author of ‘Exceptional Living and Challenges to Succeed ‘Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments’.
Without discipline, you can’t be productive. Ellard Hubbard puts it succinctly by saying that ‘Self-discipline is the ability to do what you should do when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not’.

Winning big in 2025 is achievable. You have to activate these habits to achieve your aim. It might not be an easy journey, but the difficulties will be rewarding enough for you to forget about the pain. Start now.