12 Science Approved Hacks To Boss Your Productivity

Right, I know I just said that you should take a day off, but a little bit of prep on a Sunday could work wonders for your productivity.

The worst part of a Monday morning is kicking yourself back into gear after the weekend. Trying to get the momentum back can be made even harder if all you're doing is catching up on leftover tasks from the week before.

Set aside a little bit of time on Sunday to get some of those niggling little tasks done and set yourself up for a good week. Just doing little tasks like reading you emails and responding to the important ones will mean that you're not faced with an insurmountable wall of unread messages when you're still bleary-eyed on Monday morning.

If you've got a bit of prep to do for the week that is more time consuming than difficult, you could always just hack away at it whilst you're sat in front of some Sunday telly, or waiting for the dinner to cook. Just make sure that it doesn't take up your whole weekend, or you can find yourself in the scenario outlined in the last entry - limit yourself to no more than an hour.

Think of it as time saved when you don't have to stay late on Friday because you didn't quite get everything done, and you can go for a well deserved pint guilt-free.