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The essence of work well done each day is satisfactory, to say the least. Whether you are an executive or a manager, an entrepreneur, or a self-employed professional it’s proven that your money making potential is proportionate to your level of productivity.

Most of us, however, let the day pass by with nothing much to account for during the course of the day. We fall victims to overwhelmingly close deadlines and impossible-to-meet targets. Time, as usual, is as merciless as it can be. Consider these five tips to get more productive each day:

The RWR (Reward – Work – Reward) theory + Pomodoro Technique

The Pomodoro technique, created by Francesco Cirillo, is a popular time management technique where you have a clock that ticks away while you work in spurts of an hour each. Set the clock (even a normal watch or a stop watch would do), work for an hour without distractions, and without ever stopping even a minute. Stop the clock. Take a five-minute break and get back to your work again.

Consider those 5 minutes as a reward for the intense work you did during the previous hour. Of course, you can customize this according to your work habits such as working for a stretch of 2 hours with 10-minute breaks.

Throw the television out and get off email and Social Media

According to The Los Angeles Times, an average American watches 151 hours worth of Television in a month, which averages about 5 hours each day. With the rest of the time spent on Facebook and Twitter, over half of an average American life is spent on TV and Internet alone.

Statistics from pingdom.com suggest that each Facebook user spends 15 hours and 33 minutes on Facebook per week. Multiply this figure by the number of users on Facebook and it’s about 9.3 billion hours in a single month, a – hold your breath – 1,065,449 years of human life. You do know why you should get off the television and social media (especially for personal use) and save some time, don’t you?

Wake up as early as you can

Consider this: There’s nothing left to do except work, when you wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning. In a silence that limits your hearing to your own breathing, and for the fact that the whole world is asleep, you’ll have plenty of time to bang out the most productive set of hours during mornings. It’s not glamorous to wakeup early, but you get as productive as a machine. Assuming you work 8 hours a day, waking up at 4 allows you to finish your work by noon, more or less.

Use inbound email reminders

Remember The Milk, Boomerang Email, Memotome, and hundreds of free or paid services are available for you to remind yourself of everything you ought to do every day or at any point in the future.

With most of us being email junkies and given the fact that it’s the first and the last thing we check every day, email reminders are the best way to stay focused and productive. Add a few bells and whistles such as an alarm along with the reminder on your computer and your emails will then get pushy to a whole new level.

Say no, or be ruthless and shut the world out

Most of us are so nice that we just can’t deny when others demand time from us.

Friends want to come over to chat; children demand that you play with them; your spouse needs to discuss; employees want to meet; vendors want to finalize plans; and clients want you to be on Skype all day long – there’s no end to these demands off you. They, however, won’t pay the bills for you or sponsor your big, Round-the-World Travel Dream (except clients, maybe).

The big productivity tip is to learn to say no. It’s all right if they are hurt at the moment, but they’ll understand. If your soft “no” isn’t working, shut yourself off in your study, office, or room. Stop picking calls (most of these calls aren’t even important). Avoid meeting anyone during workdays.

You’ll love the feeling that a massively productive day can deliver.