Your to-do list keeps growing and your email inbox is overflowing, but the number of hours in a day and week doesn’t change.

How do you figure out how to make the most of your time?

All that matters is what you get done, not how much you say you’ll get done. Make sure you get into a productive frame of mind, take the right approach, and distinguish habits vs. routine because we spend 40% of our time on autopilot.

How to be more productive with one-sentence tips

To help you be more productive today and tomorrow, here are 50 tips written in one sentence each.

1. Do one task at a time. …

Self-improvement is how you learn and grow. Life is about living in the present and making plans for the future.

I’m always looking for ways to improve myself and I hope you are too. Self-improvement is necessary for making your future brighter and to grow as a person. It’s what life is all about.

“Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.” — Jim Rohn, an American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker

I have complied a list of self-improvement tips to help you enjoy life more and appreciate every second, minute, hour, day, and year you are alive. …

There’s no right way or wrong way to start your morning. Some people wake up, eat breakfast, and go to work. While others, wake up, exercise for 30 minutes, shower, make coffee, eat breakfast, do the dishes, and then go to work.

A good morning routine sets the tone for the day. Your morning routine primes you for success. When you have a good morning routine, you achieve more, think more clearly, and focus on work that really matters.

Overachieving employees begin their day by understanding their productive morning routine is key to their success. The key is focus, clarity, and direction. …

There are a lot of entrepreneurs who are competing for people’s attention and dollar. They are doing everything they can to stand out and stay ahead of the trends. Yet, most of them hope one day they will make it big, scale and grow fast, or get acquired by a big company with a big payout.

Don’t hope for success, help for success.

If you want to take your small business to the next level, it boils down to your mindset.

Be helpful, not hopeful.

Don’t hope for success, work strategically toward achieving your goals this year by developing a marketing strategy. …

A trailblazer is someone who is a pioneer, an innovator who makes a new track in the wild country. They make a path for others to follow.

In marketing, it’s important to follow the ones who are blazing the path for others to follow. Marketing trailblazers are lifelong learners who transform their companies. They inspire others with their innovation and make the marketing profession better.

Let’s dive into what fearless marketing trailblazers are embracing to drive innovation in the marketing profession. Here are five things they are doing well.

1. They Use Technology Wisely and Simply

Many marketers get carried away with tools and technology. There are a lot of digital marketing tools available in the marketplace. Marketing trailblazers are always looking for new tools to incorporate into the marketing technology stack, but they use marketing technology wisely and simply. …

Your headline is the most important part of your article. It’s important to write your headline before you write your story.

Why?

It’s your “north star” for your article. It’s the most important sentence or statement of your entire 1,000-, 2,000-, or 3,000-word article. The second most important sentence is your sub-headline or sub-title.

Writing headlines is critical to getting views and reads. If you have a crappy headline, you are going to have a crappy article. Sometimes, you can get away with a bad headline, but that’s only if your article is excellently written.

I was inspired to write this article after signing up for Tim Denning’s free Get 10,000 Views on a Single Article course he produced with Todd Brison. …

Email is one of the most effective tools for marketers and writers. Newsletters are one of the most common types of emails, but they can be hard to get right. To harness the power of email marketing, it’s important to understand how to write an email newsletter correctly.

Your newsletter is a valuable marketing resource that needs your attention, focus, and energy. Just sending a newsletter for the sake of sending a newsletter will not earn trust, which is critical to your newsletter’s success.

You also need to know the best practices and what you should think about when you are creating your weekly or monthly newsletter. Here are ten tips for creating a new email newsletter or rejuvenating an old one. …

There’s no guarantee that anyone will actually read your entire story. Write well, so you compel them to read the whole thing. It’s important to understand how your readers consume your content and then write your articles in a way that helps the scanners and the actual readers.

Rarely do people read every word of your article. Research shows that only 16% of people read your stories word-by-word. Most readers scan your story and pick out individual sentences such as your first and last sentence of a paragraph of your story.

There are some important things to keep in mind when you write so you can make the scanners happy and those who read a majority of your story happy. …