If you start with small and simple things, there will be greater chances that you can accomplish bigger things in the future. 4. Try to monitor your progress. Keeping track of how good or bad you progressing with being productive will help you find ways that would best work for you. Those who are just starting with being productive, it is best to keep track of how you are doing so you will know where are the areas that you should improve on and what are the things that you should continue doing. Variables In a factory, for example, productivity measures connected with input factors (labor, capital, etc) are inadequate and can be misleading sometimes. On one hand, input factors cannot be studied while isolated by themselves. Productivity improvement in one aspect is generally at the cost of the other. If production costs do not exceed productivity increase, there is a possibility of a price fall or stability. It is also conducive to lower inflation. In other countries, productivity has grown. In rich countries, GDP soared mainly because of the increase in productivity. The poorest countries in the world are typically with a low productivity increase. Those could include finishing a long-overdue paperwork, starting immediately on a new project, or completing usual tasks. Do not overlook simple and small goals. Work to achieve those goals on a daily basis. You would be surprised how much work you could get done in a week and in a month. De-clutter your workstation. More difficult is the construction of an estimate of the aggregate labor that accounts for the changing composition of workers. Instead of simply summing up the hours, estimates use weights that are equal to marginal products. Total factor productivity Also known as the Solow residual (in honor of Nobel laureate Robert Solow), total factor productivity represents the ability to produce more output from the same input. By starting small and simple, you are not putting too much pressure on yourself about the things that you need to do and what are you supposed to accomplished in a specific period of time. By starting small, you will be able to accomplish easier tasks and you can move on to bigger challenges ahead knowing that you have gone though the entire process.