How Scheduling Downtime Improves Productivity
Do you know that having downtime is important for boosting productivity? Here's why and how to use downtime for productivity.
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The Importance of Reminders (And How to Make a Reminder Work)
Why are reminders important to productivity? Here's why you need reminders and how to make a reminder effectively for boosted productivity.
Back to Basics: Your Weekly Review
No matter how organized you are, how together your system is, how careful you are about processing your inbox, making a task list, and working your calendar , if you don’t stop every now and again to look at the “big pic
Back to Basics: Your Calendar
One of the first things people do when they make the decision to “get organized” is buy some kind of calendar. It might be a dayplanner, a desktop “blotter-pad” calendar, a Palm or Blackberry, or some other kind of devic
3 Techniques for Setting Priorities Effectively
Is setting priorities are great challenge for you? Here're 3 effective techniques to help you set priorities and boost your productivity.
How to Use Parkinson's Law to Get More Done in Less Time
Parkinson's Law is all about getting more done in less time. If you want to up your productivity learn how to use this idea to your advantage.
How to Be On Time Every Time
In my last post, I talked about why being punctual matters . The short version: people who are habitually late (or are late even once, when it counts) project incompetence, self-centeredness, and even a lack of integrity
Punctuality Counts
For years, I could be counted on to be late. Got a lunch meeting at 11:30 am? Dustin will be there at 11:40. Got a class at 9:00am? Dustin will be there at 9:20. Is there a meeting at 6:00 pm? Dustin's there by 6:30. Wor
8 Ways to Be Ruthless With Your Time
There are a million and one demands on your time and, whether or not those demands are legitimate, it’s hard to carve out the time necessary to take care of your responsibilities. You have to be ruthless with your time —
5 Ways to get out of faffing mode
Faffing - The art of doing something without achieving anything” Faffing affects all of us, in all areas of life and it means doing something without achieving an outcome. It affects business, personal life, writing, int
How to Maximize Efficiency by Grouping Tasks
There’s a metaphor many of use on a daily basis that compares our brain to a car or a bicycle with gears. I need to shift gears or my head’s in the wrong gear for this indicates that the human brain, for the sake of effi
30 Tips to Rejuvenate Your Creativity
Recently, we asked the readers what their tips for staying creative were. Sometimes creativity flows from the heavens, but other times, as we all know, it’s like drawing water from a stone. The following are the best tip
Audiobook Review: David Allen's "GTD > Weekly Review"
One of the most difficult demands that David Allen's Getting Things Done makes on followers of his system is to set aside a couple of hours a week for a weekly review. It's hard enough to find the single block of uninter
12 Steps Closer to Your Ideal Work Day
What would an ideal workday look like? While there might not be a single answer across the board, all of us can relate to the fact that many of our workdays are not designed for optimal productivity. We complain about to
6 Lessons on Making Smooth Transitions in Life
Last week I started working on my new job as a lecturer. The job is pretty flexible, but it takes quite a lot of time for preparation, especially because I'm relatively new to some subjects. Since I'm still adapting to t