Are You Wasting Hours of Your Work Day?
How much time do you waste, every day?
You probably don’t try to, or mean to. But if you work for a typical company, you’re probably losing hours of productive time every single day.
Maybe a typical day looks something like this: Read the Rest of This Article »
3 Proven Ways To Once & For All Defeat Procrastination
I nearly put off writing this article because of an insidious disease that strikes all of us from time to time, and that disease is called procrastination.
That was a joke, if you missed it.
‘Roundtuits’ are the friends of the mediocre because they are always saying that they will get around to it – somewhere into the never never future of nothing ever getting done.
So allow me to give you a tug in the right direction. May what I share with you jerk you into action so that you can break out of the puddle of mediocrity that you are currently splashing around in and plunge you into the sea of magnificence that awaits you.
The way I’m going to do this is by presenting you with three memorable three-word-phrases that, applied to your life, will decimate the hold that procrastination has on your life and help you to build a far more productive efficient and effective life. Read the Rest of This Article »
7 Ways to Boost Your Productivity
We all want to be productive but sometimes we find ourselves procrastinating and wasting our time without intention.
I have interviewed many people who are known for their productivity and also interviewed some of the procrastinators I know and as a I result I discovered 7 common features that will help you become more productive!
7 Ways To Boost Your Productivity: Read the Rest of This Article »
Is This Common Misconception About Productivity Holding You Back?
I was sitting at my computer. Time to be productive!
So I browsed to my blog, ready to start writing a world-shattering blog post. Except I felt a bit tired, and decided to check my e-mail before starting writing. And then I checked facebook. And then reddit.
Next thing I know, it’s two hours later, and I still haven’t done anything. Oops!
I used to do this nearly daily for I don’t know how long. Then, one day, I got fed up with shooting myself in the foot like that, and decided to dig into my mind to figure out why I’m killing my productivity like that. And I found a… surprising answer.
And then, talking to others, I found out that many people make exactly the same mistake. So I’m writing this post, in hopes that you can learn from my experience. Onwards, my friends! Read the Rest of This Article »
Are You Taking a Much-Needed Break – Or Just Being Lazy?
It’s ten thirty in the morning. You’ve been working for an hour or two, so you decide to read your favorite blogs for a bit, and check out some web comics.
But you feel a bit guilty. After all, shouldn’t you be powering through your work?
You Need to Take Breaks
No-one can work effectively for hours at a stretch – especially on tasks which require a lot of mental energy (like writing, planning strategy, designing, and anything involving creativity).
So you need to take breaks. You’ll actually find that you get more done in a day where you stop for ten minutes out of every hour than on a day when you keep on and on working. Why? Because when you force yourself to stick with a task, you’ll slow down. You’ll end up checking your emails, getting distracted, or staring at the screen in front of you, feeling like your brain’s already gone home. Read the Rest of This Article »
Why Waking up Early Is So Difficult
Do you drink coffee? Have you ever tried to stop?
Me neither. I like coffee.
But what about getting up early? Have you ever tried waking up early? How did it go?
That was a challenge for me. I used to dread getting up early – especially for work!
I mean 40 hours a week working in a job you don’t enjoy… who the heck wants to do that?
But nowadays I love getting up early. Yeah, you heard me… I absolutely love it.
It’s so much fun to be up before the sun rise. It feels like I have a head start over everyone else… like I have some sort of secret that nobody else knows about – and if you “get” what I’m going to share with you by the end of this article – you’ll know the secret too 
Would you like to hear it? Read the Rest of This Article »
5 Ways To Work Smarter
As much as workaholics like to claim that they’re superior because they work more hours, don’t listen to them.
Workaholics do work more hours than the rest of us, but they don’t work smart hours. They may sit at their desks forever, but that doesn’t mean that they’re using their time well 100% of the time. In fact, odds are good that the quality of their work is lower because they work in long, uninterrupted sessions that are a big drain on their brains’ mental energy. As the quality of their work drops, so do their productivity and their morale – resulting in one overworked, unhappy worker.
Workaholics of the world: start working smarter instead of keeping yourself up all night working on a project. Here are 5 ways to get started: Read the Rest of This Article »
Want To Get Things Done? Write It Down
If you are looking for to do list software, you have a myriad of options to choose from. Some of the most well regarded to do list managers floating around the Internet are Remember the Milk, Toodledo, Google Calendar’s Task list, and Ta-Da List. Each of them seems to have a gadget that you can integrate into your web browser or into an iGoogle page so that you can see your to do list at regular intervals as you work at your computer.
If it’s so convenient, why can’t I recommend some such system? Read the Rest of This Article »
Why You Should Work Smart Not Hard: 4 Ways To Do It
We’re often told that hard work gets us ahead. That’s true to an extent – if you put effort and focus into something, you’re going to achieve more than if you go at it in a half-hearted way. But it’s all too easy to get sucked into working long hours, ticking tasks off a list, without being all that effective or successful.
Instead of just working hard – putting in lots of hours – look for ways to work smart.
Why? Read the Rest of This Article »
4 Things You Must Do To Get Things Done!
Getting things done is a topic of many websites out there these days, and they all say different things. How is a person supposed to get anything done when there are so many sites to read on how to get things done?!? I don’t subscribe to any specific guru out there, but here are a few ways that I have stayed productive for the last several years. These methods might not be ground breaking, but they work for me, and I think they will work for you too.
Create Small Lists
I take an 8 1/2×11 sheet of paper and fold it in half three times, and use one side to make my list. This accomplishes a few things. First it keeps my list short, which requires me to only put my high priority items on the list. Second, I can carry it around with me easily during the day so I can mark things off of the list. This is very motivating. Finally it saves paper; I just refold it for the next list! Keeping a small list makes the to-do list less overwhelming and more manageable. Read the Rest of This Article »
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