12 Science Approved Hacks To Boss Your Productivity

6. Stop Working

An important part of doing something is not doing it.

Seeing as, in this day and age, the idea of the "working week" and even the "workplace" has become a lot more fluid, the separation of work and leisure time has become much fuzzier. Emails come to our smartphones, work hours become more flexible and the demands of an overly connected world mount up.

This is particularly true for people who freelance and/or work from home, where the temptation to tinker unendingly is difficult to master. This is kryptonite for productivity. With a constant low-level amount of concentration, effort and creativity seeping out of you, it becomes difficult to really focus on a project and complete it.

Do yourself a favour, take the day off.

Giving yourself that breather will not only stop you having a nervous breakdown by the time you're 35, but it will also give your brain an opportunity to regroup, ready to blast it the next day. Plus, you remove the possibility that you will just be able to work and rework something, thus providing yourself with a deadline of sorts, breaking your time up and not allowing one day to just slide limply into the next.