How to Double Your Salary (Part 5)

Jan 10

Written By Eric Gelb

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How to Double Your Salary Today! (Part 5)

Welcome back!

Before we jump into How to Double Your Salary Part 5, you can grab Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4.

Today, we’re going to share two more tips to help You get organized, become more productive and save time.

Which will enable you to direct more time to gain more free time, get your work done, get more work done in less time, gain peace of mind and along the way, double your salary.

Let’s get to it!

1. Figure out your peak performance time in a day and organize your day and work schedule accordingly.

I know. . . Of course you probably can’t have a meeting with your boss at 4 in the morning. . .

But often we can arrange our schedules to handle solo work during your peak work times. Examples include reading documents and answering emails.

For some years, I had some colleagues based in India. India was 9½ hours ahead of New York time. We got in the habit of emailing them at the end of our workday on Monday so they would receive our email when they arrived at the office Tuesday morning. They made progress on our projects before we got to the office on Tuesday morning. Creating efficiency and more efficient production.

Me? I’m a morning person. I have a wearable Oura ring and it told me to go to sleep at 9 pm. Sadly, given seven hours of sleep, I ended up waking up at 4:00 or 4:30 am. Yikes.

After a while, I got in the habit of starting the workday around 5:00 am. Crazy perhaps but quite efficient and effective.

2. Hybrid work and remote work

Hopefully your employer allows for hybrid work or remote working.

Clearly you save commuting time and hassle time.

So long as you can work productively at home, this can be a great productivity booster.

With hybrid work and remote working, you can free up time; gain more flexibility in your work schedule; reduce commuting costs; and reduce the number of times you buy lunch at work.

What’s more, you can design at least some of your workday and work schedule around your life. You can increase your productivity, efficiency and effectiveness. And create more value in less time.

Like I mentioned above, I am an early riser and a morning person.

When I get up before the ‘crack of dawn’, I sit down at my desk and get to work. After dinner, I can return to the desk and handle some emails or work on a document or PowerPoint.

At the same time, create a dedicated workspace or an actual home office that helps you focus and concentrate and eliminate distractions or reduce distractions.

Be sure to develop a work routine, as if you were in the office – it’s just that with hybrid working and remote working, your office is at home!

Be sure to get your projects done.

And put forth extra effort to stay connected with your supervisors and work colleagues so you can continue learning from colleagues. We have seen many remote workers and hybrid workers get wedded to their computer and lose touch with their company. As many have said over time, “There’s great value in ‘water cooler chats’.”

To me, while Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Webex by Cisco, GoToMeeting, ClickMeeting, RingCentral® Video and their cousins are a solid way to hold meetings and include colleagues and participants across the globe, video conferencing is not a substitute for face-to-face meetings!

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When you organize your schedule and streamline your workflow, you will gain peace of mind and free up valuable time which you can devote to more important tasks!

That’s the ticket to creating more time to complete your assigned tasks on time, take on more projects at work, take on more responsibility and higher value-add tasks and higher value-add projects, increase your output, create more value for your company and double your salary!

Let’s get to it!

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See you next week when we’ll share more tips to save money, save time and become more productive and double your salary.

Have a great one!

Arthur V.

Disclaimer: OH and Please Remember, we are Not financial advisors, financial planners, attorneys or accountants and are Not providing any specific financial, tax or legal advice here. Be sure to conduct your own due diligence and consult your own professional advisors to get sound professional advice that’s specific to your financial and personal circumstances, risk tolerance, time horizon and investment goals and objectives among other key factors!