Productivity
What do you wear when you’re at home? Whether you’re working, doing chores, or chilling out, the clothes you wear can affect your mood, motivation and even feelings of self-respect. If you find yourself struggling with procrastination, low productivity or lack of motivation, your at-home wardrobe could be to blame. Do you pull on any old thing because you’re ‘just at home’? Do you say to yourself, ‘No one can [...]
Dec
Ready to make 2012 happy, organized and clutter-free? Here are some strategies to start the year off well. 3 Powerful Strategies For A Fabulous New Year Although the start of a new year is a fairly arbitrary thing, it offers a priceless psychological gift – motivation! Don’t waste this gift! Take advantage of the January 1 effect to get started the way you want the year to continue. If you’re [...]
Procrastination is one of those perennial problems. It seems everyone suffers from it at least some of the time, and there’s no one solution that always works. But there are a few solutions that are pretty reliable at breaking you out of the procrastination rut. In fact, I think these are about the best procrastination busters there are. Procrastination Buster #1: Do Anything Often we procrastinate because we want to [...]
Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ~ Thomas Carlyle Have you been putting something off? Maybe you’ve been meaning to: Begin working toward a goal? Get organized at work? Declutter your home? Start a project? It might be tempting to wait until some mythical perfect time. Perhaps when: You have more time (yeah, that’ll happen) [...]
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People in my Facebook Community will know I’m a big fan of Brian Tracy’s Eat That Frog. How To ‘Eat That Frog’ For Greater Productivity Eat That Frog is a time-management idea that encourages you to: Identify the most important task you could be doing each day (your frog) Do this task first, before you do anything else Continue doing this task until it’s complete (eat your frog). I love [...]
Jun
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Are you always looking for time-management tricks as a way to get more done each day? You can also increase your productivity by improving your focus, so that you get more done and more effectively, with whatever time you have available. One way to become more focused as you work is to pull up the drawbridge – my metaphor for cutting off distractions, online and offline. And an important part [...]
If you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and stressed as you go about your work each day, there’s a good chance you’re aiming for a perfect state, a goal of ‘having everything done’. This is a mythical state that can never exist in real life. Unless you’re a hermit who has eschewed modern life, the reality is that you will never have everything done. There’ll always be more things to do, [...]
Do you feel you spend a lot of time being busy, doing stuff, working on things – but at the end of the day you haven’t achieved very much? Would you like to get more things checked off every day? Here’s a little mind trick that can help you shift your focus and get more done. How To Get More Stuff Done The trick to getting more done is to [...]
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Having a place for everything and every thing in its place is a wonderful way to keep your space organized. But you can also apply this same principle to regular tasks, as a way to keep your time well organized, too. This has several benefits: You save time by not having to schedule regular tasks each time You avoid stress by not having to remember regular tasks You create good [...]
Oct
Here’s a little trick to keep your brain working on your most pressing projects – even when you’re not. All you have to do is expose yourself to your current challenge just before you head off to lunch, the gym, a meeting, an errand, the shower, whatever. For example, Writing a blog post for your business? –> Sketch a draft, or even just a title, before you go. Want a [...]
Aug
Here are some interesting and useful articles I’ve discovered recently.
Overcome Procrastination
Ideas to help you stop procrastinating, from organizing queen Julie Morgenstern:
How do I stop procrastinating
Even though this site is all about helping you move from procrastination to action, there are times when procrastination can be a smart move. We all have a drive to procrastinate – a resistance to getting down to the important things, a pressure toward more trivial tasks. The strength of that compulsion is an asset we can use to boost productivity, improve time management and simply get more done. Here’s [...]
May
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An unrealistic to-do list undermines your effectiveness in two ways: Having too many tasks distracts, overwhelms and confuses you – taking focus away from items that matter Inability to complete items de-motivates you and reduces your self confidence. Give your productivity and motivation an instant boost in this mission – by decluttering your to-do list. Remember: you only need 30 minutes for the basic mission. Extended Options are below. If [...]
3 Steps To Getting More Done By Saying No More Often Graciously decline requests that don’t fit your priorities. How? 1. Instead of ‘No I can’t’, try No thank you Sorry, I’m already over-committed My strengths are in [insert area of priorities]. 2. Role play your response to build confidence. 3. Remember – you can serve others best by focusing on areas where you have most to give. This [...]
Dec
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You may not be thrilled with the way you manage time in your business life. On the other hand, you may not want to invest precious money, energy, thought and – yep, even time – into finding a whole new time management system. If you’d just like to get more done in your business day, follow the 5 easy steps in this mission. PS Next week: Time Management: How To [...]
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