Meaningful Reading (And An Opportunity To Do Some)
The key part to consuming anything is whether or not it makes a meaningful change in how you act. That’s why reading in a meaningful way is so important.
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Mind The Gap: 2 Ways To Find The Holes In Your Productivity
Whenever you’re starting something new – no matter what it is – if you want to get better at it then it’s important to see the gaps. You need to first recognize where the holes are in your game and then do what you can to fill them. Whether you fill those gaps up with new approaches, tools that can handle them, or bridging them with existing approaches and tools, you need to fill them in order to improve. And your productivity is no different.
Book Review: How To Invest Your Time Like Money
Elizabeth Grace Saunders has written a time management book that values your time. Time management may be the wrong category for what this is. It’s more like strategic time investment – hence the title.
Start Taking Action: 12 Steps to Beat Procrastination and Finish What You Started
Timo is a blogger, author, and speaker who helps work-at-home professionals get stuff done fast so that they have time for living. To make this post even more effective, you can grab a special list of procrastination-busting tools right here! No matter how productive you are, we all have one trait in common: we all
Get Some Pomodoro Power
Are you one of those people who takes a look at the projects you currently have in progress and wonder how on earth you are going to work your way through them? The amount of work that can be completed in that Pomodoro is quite staggering, especially the first time you complete one.
Why Small Wins Can Make Or Break Your Productivity
Too often we focus on the big stuff that we’re trying to get done. When we come up short, we give ourselves a hard time. I’m not suggesting that you shouldn’t strive to achieve on a high level, but what I am suggesting is that you step back and celebrate the small wins because they go a lot further than you’d think in making or breaking your overall productivity and performance.
Review – BusyContacts for OS X
They gave us an alternative to the Calendar application with BusyCal, now those talented individuals at BusyMac have only gone and cracked it again with the release of BusyContacts.
Choose Your Conventions Wisely
Conventions are all around us. Conventions will guide our actions and rather than not choose any conventions, we can choose conventions to guide us in the right direction. Good conventions will eliminate a choice and bring focus to one thing.
How Preparing For Vacation Can Lead To A Proactive Life
My Small Sabbaticals set the tone for all of these things initially, but this vacation preparation – knowing I’ll be away for two weeks – took everything to a whole new level. And it’s a level I plan to stay at until I move ahead even further.