What’s holding you back? What do you have to do right now, that you know you have to do, but you just can’t bring yourself to do it? What project is sitting on your desk, calling to you, that you know would make your life better, but you just can’t do it? It feels like …
A lot of training materials these days are delivered through video. I don’t know about you, but I can read a lot faster than I can watch a video. Don’t you feel like you’re wasting my time watching training videos, no matter how valuable it is? What if you missed a lecture and need to …
It’s a strange phenomena you see every day: people will compete to show how busy they are. It’s like they attach a sense of significance to being busy. How many times have you answered the question “How is work/business?” with “really busy” or “flat out” as if that were the end goal? Isn’t the end …
There’s a great tool I’ve used for years to force myself to focus on one thing at a time: the Action Machine by Derek Franklin. I choose my one to three things to get done that day (see this post for more on that) then set the order of the focus blocks. A “focus block” …
You know the feeling… you’re thinking about so many things, they’re swirling around in your head, you just can’t concentrate. The simplest solution to this is to just write them down. I know you’ve probably heard this advice many times, but maybe this time it’ll click 🙂 Take five minutes and with a pad and …
A strategy I use every day is to pick one to three tasks that I will complete on that day. These are relatively important things that if I complete them, I will be able to say “today was a successful/productive day”. I try not to decide on those tasks at the end of the previous …
This will be nothing new to anyone who’s done research on improving their productivity, but it’s a great habit to get into. If you’ve never tried this, just do it for a day and you’ll be amazed at how much you get done. Thanks to Andrea Warner for today’s tip: Get yourself two egg timers, …
I use a couple of tools to manage my time – Simpleology and Action Machine. On Simpleology, I brainstorm the things I need to do each day and go through the daily target praxis. Once I
I was checking out the latest on Jack Humphrey’s site when I came across this post about Ubiquity. Ubiquity is in my opinion the next quantum leap forward in browsing. While its still in its infancy, Ubiquity has massive potential for good AND evil. What is it? Basically, it is an addon for Firefox (works …