Tag Archives: Productivity

Screen Real Estate, Productivity, and Idiots

Ran across these thoughts on how minimizing your screen real estate might actually boost your productivity: Having a big screen is a good excuse to stick a Twitter client here, mail client there, have list of files pane constantly open, … Continue reading

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Why Your To-Do List is Hurting You

Interesting thoughts from the Harvard Business Review: Stop making to-do lists. They’re simply setting you up for failure and frustration. Consider the to-do lists you’re currently managing: how many items have been languishing since Michelle Bachman was leading the field … Continue reading

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Why Sharing Your Goals Dooms You To Failure

If you want to accomplish something, it makes sense to tell people about it.  After all, you might be able to collaborate with someone already working on something similar, or gain some ideas and insights from someone who has done … Continue reading

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Productivity Tips, From 1932

Despite, or in fact because of, the 80 years of technological advancement, these tips are even more relevant today.  Courtesy of Henry Miller: COMMANDMENTS Work on one thing at a time until finished. Start no more new books, add no … Continue reading

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It Will Be There Later

A quick tip on preventing procrastination: Whatever it is you want to do, whether it’s check email or facebook, or read the news, or play a game, or whatever, recognize that it will be there later.  The news will always … Continue reading

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The First Thing You Do When You Sit Down At The Computer

What’s the first thing you do?  Check your email?  See who needs you?  Whose problems need solving?  Maybe you “warm your brain up” by checking news, or gossip, or sports, or playing a game. (hint: you’re really warming your brain … Continue reading

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Productive Procrastination

Everyone needs a mental break at some point during the day.  It’s biological: mammals are programmed to experience two intensely sleepy periods during the day, the first between 2 and 4 am, and the second between 1 and 3 pm. … Continue reading

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You Are Not Too Busy

Richard Branson owns and operates more than 400 companies under his Virgin Group.  He sells everything from music to trips to space. He sets world records on sailboats and hot-air balloons. He appears in movies and television shows.  He writes … Continue reading

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Hemingway’s Productivity Hack

One of the things I’ve made an effort to get good at is to do the little things as I notice them.  As soon as I notice something that needs to be picked up, or put away, or moved, or … Continue reading

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On Being Prolific

Picasso created somewhere between 50,000 and 100,000 pieces of art during his life.  If we take the low estimate and assume he starting making real art at about 6 years old, this means he had to create about two pieces … Continue reading

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How To Get Anyone To Help You Do Anything

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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The Necessity of No

Most people saw the iPad as a revolutionary, unexpected device.  Some people thought it would never sell, or that it was a useless, stupid device. But, journalists and people on tech blogs and forums had been clamoring for Apple to … Continue reading

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Beat Procrastination By Being Self-Centered

If you work any sort of normal job, you’re probably forced to do a lot of stuff you’re not terribly enthusiastic about doing.  Paradoxically, this work can often take longer because we tend to lose focus.  We stall, we procrastinate, … Continue reading

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Why Motivational Speakers Don’t Motivate

Dr. Jim Taylor, who has a PhD in psychology, says the “inspirational-industrial complex” is a sham. Why, you ask? Because the inspiration that comes from other people is manufactured from the outside. This “synthetic” inspiration simply can’t last long because … Continue reading

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