Here’s a simple mind exercise I posted on my Zedomax.com blog:
(Basically, it’s a fun exercise that can help you become more efficient while spending more time doing what you really want to do, play!)

Everyday, start going home 5 minutes earlier.  So if you get off work at 5PM, start “forcing” yourself to get off work at 4:45PM.  (The next day, 4:40PM, the next day: 4:30PM, etc…etc…)

If your boss starts complaining, just keep making excuses such as (“I got a date”) or whatever.  It’s a freakin’ job for godsakes, it ain’t your life.  Eventually, even your boss will see that you leave after finishing your job faster than everyone else, and give you a raise.

Once you start forcing yourself to do more stuff in less time, your mind will slowly adjust accordingly.

Eventually, you will be able to get off work at 2 or 3PM and get the same of amount of work done.

Let me ask you, how many times have you sat in your office chair IMing someone or simply wasting a lot of time?

Probably 2-3 hours to say the least, that’s where you lose efficiency.

By making your mind to do more stuff in less time, you will also have more time for yourself, to do other recreational activities such as golf or spend the late afternoon with your kids.

This might not work though if you have a manual-labor job such as data-entry or UPS man for example.

But if you work in a job where it requires a lot of intelligence and mind, (such as programming, management, etc…etc…) you will be able to solve problems in less time.