How to Make Cleaning a Habit: 10 Tips
Everyone would rather do anything at all except clean the house. Time spent cleaning feels like time wasted that could be used doing something fun. When cleaning is viewed as a chore instead of as an aspect of family life, the person stuck with cleaning feels imprisoned. Spend some time deciding what you hate about cleaning and then use these ten tips to embrace housecleaning as something that can become a good habit. Read the Rest of This Article »
The 21 Winning Attributes Of The Wealthy
When I consider the word wealthy I want to go far beyond the limited definition that relates purely to accumulation and comfort.
Wealth to me has a far much broader meaning that also includes the richness of friends, family, as well as opportunities.
So with that understanding let’s explore 21 of the finest attributes of the wealthy. Read the Rest of This Article »
6 Productivity Tips That Are like Treadmills for the Mind
The brain determines consciousness, and a long list of attributes which affect one’s quality of life. Without exception, everything starts with the brain; it is central for everything that we do. Productivity; starts with the mind, the brain must be nurtured with, stimulation, positive affirmations and active challenges. Read the Rest of This Article »
Are You Taking Productivity Too Far?
Since you’re reading Pick the Brain, I expect that you’ll agree with me when I say that productivity is a good thing.
Being productive generally means:
- You’re living up to your full potential (instead of daydreaming about what might be … and never actually doing it)
- You’re being proactive rather than reactive, taking control of your own life
- You feel good about yourself and your life: each day, you have a sense of accomplishment
- You’ve got clear goals, and you’re on track to reach them
Pretty great, huh? It sounds like a recipe for a happy life.
Except… Read the Rest of This Article »
6 Ways to Stay Productive When You’re Feeling Low
It can be hard to stay focused and productive at the best of times. But when you’re feeling low – whether that’s physically or emotionally – then it can seem almost impossible to concentrate.
Maybe you have a daunting number of things to get done … but you can’t seem to summon up the energy to tackle any of them. You might end up doing something totally counter-productive: procrastinating, or tackling the easy, unimportant tasks, or even driving yourself to tears.
Here’s how to keep yourself on track: Read the Rest of This Article »
The DIY Guide to Rock Star Productivity
Working with rock star productivity is awesome. You get stuff done like nobody else, and let’s face it, you’re the envy of colleagues and competitors alike! If you want that, but don’t feel like shelling out a thousand bucks for an expensive time management consultant, why not go the do-it-yourself way?
I know you’ve got the chops for it. So, roll up your sleeves, grab yourself a beer, and get ready to start building your productivity power house. Read the Rest of This Article »
Why Goal Setting Is A Complete Waste Of Time (unless you do this)
“Goals” are like “New Year’s resolutions”…frequently made but rarely accomplished.
If you struggle to achieve your goals, my good friend Bill Bartmann, the author of “Bailout Riches” and once named by Inc. magazine as “The Billionaire Nobody Knows” gave me an awesome tip to trick your mind into accomplishing exactly what you want to, every single time.
“Don’t think of your goals as goals.”
Are you scratching your head right now? I know I sure was. Until I saw the white elephant sitting in the room…
In our society most people describe a goal as “a lofty ambition,” something to “shoot for,” something to “strive for,” or something to “work towards”…
Nothing wrong with with any of that is there? Read the Rest of This Article »
The Secret of Financial Happiness
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” (Mr. Micawber, in David Copperfield by Charles Dickens – 1850)
You already know this secret, really.
But maybe you don’t like to think about it.
If you’re trying to improve your financial situation, you need to either:
- Spend less
- Earn more
Even in the post-credit-crunch world, it’s all too easy for us to put items on a credit card. It’s all too easy to run up thousands of dollars of debt – with our spending constantly outstripping our earning. Read the Rest of This Article »
3 Ways to Become Better at Time Management
Why do we have to work so hard to learn Time Management, to master it?
Shouldn’t we be born with the ability to work efficiently?
The problem is that we have the tendency to want to take the easy way, the short way, and as many have said before me, “A shortcut can often lead to long delays”.
Even though multitasking, relaxing and other shortcuts might feel as though they save time, working focused on one task at a time and obeying the rules of Time Management, is the real time saver. Read the Rest of This Article »
How To Triple Your Productivity by Homer Simson
“Hey Miss ‘Doesn’t Find Me Sexually Attractive Anymore’, I Just Tripled My Productivity!”
The sub-title of this post is taken from a classic episode of The Simpsons where Homer turns (more) obese and starts working from home. He soon realises that he doesn’t have to enter Y-E-S into his computer to confirm a repetitive command, but instead he can just hit ‘Y’ and get the same result, thus tripling his productivity.
Whilst the sketch was obviously created for comedic value, there is a surprising amount of truth to be found in Homer’s discover and an important message we can take away about saving large amounts of time by making small changes. If you think about it, if Homer’s only job was to confirm computer commands all day, what would have taken him 9 hours would now take him closer to 3. With this in mind, here are 5 simple ways in which I save lots of ‘small amounts’ of time each day, mainly using my computer. Read the Rest of This Article »
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