How much of productive work do you give in a day?

I remember reading once that the only a fraction of the work we do is counted as a productive work. A lion share of the work done everyday is not counted as a productive work. I found the articles making me a fool as I work like a hog the whole day to earn my bread and if someone says that most of the work is not productive then I have a jolly good reason to fret. But later on I ponder over the matter since I have never tried to measure my productive work in a typical day. If anyone ever sits to calculate our productive work in a day we will not be rejecting the article report right away.

The reason why I decided to write this article is to find the actual hard work of a single day and find the ways to eliminate distractions so that we use most of the hours for delivering hard core work exclusively. May be this will make us realize that the routine that we religiously stick to everyday is in reality a non-work routine.

Before I start with my discussion, I would like to draw the attention of my readers towards the definition of work. Work has different meanings and work for me might not be regarded as work for another person. For example, for a social media manager Facebook and Twitter is the main working platform as they have to keep in touch with the social audience for promotional purposes. But social media network in another person’s case is regarded as a distraction. Hence, one should have a clear definition of the work as well as fun. One thing to know and distinguish between the tow is to judge if an action will offer you money in the long-term. If an action offers you money in the long-term then it is definitely work and nothing else.

Once you are aware of what work is, you can now use a method to count the reductive work easily. I would suggest you to use the two device system where you use your computer for all the work that s regarded as productive and for the rest use iPad. Calculating the time spent on each device can explain how much productive work you are doing on a single day.

The alternative method of the above mentioned mean is to use a time to keep watch on your productive time solely. It will not be a tough job to do it for at least 5 days and this will give you a correct calculation indeed.

Finally, the method of keeping a track of the login and log off time can be a good mean to see how much time you have devoted to your productive work. This can be done through schedule task option in Windows operating system.