Entries Tagged 'Productivity' ↓

It is one thing to get your life to a point where it is functioning well, and you are keeping up with everything. But what happens when a disruption enters the picture? Family visits, business travel and sports camps can seriously de-rail a household schedule. Here are some strategies for coping:
Strategies for Coping With Schedule [...]

Mark Forster released the version 2 of Autofocus this past weekend (for complete instructions, see Autofocus 2 Time Management System (AF2)).
I am very hopeful about these modifications because they are specifically addressing problems I was having with Autofocus v.1, namely urgent and important tasks getting buried in the lists.
Check out the new system. I found [...]

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

Not all projects are created equal. Yet many of us routinely pile things onto our already over-full plates without stopping to consider if the project needs to be done at all, or if you are the best person to do it.
And just because we are all individuals, each person [...]

Fridays are tip days at SimpleProductivity blog.

For a long time, I felt that if a book had been published, it had merit. And if I wasn’t “getting it”, the fault was mine.
Not so anymore. I have decided, like Agatha Christie, that I could do better. Unlike her, I haven’t. Yet.
But in the mean time, I [...]

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

Have you ever gotten so far behind in something that it would be easier to start over than to catch up?
I recently realized I had a few hundred podcasts to listen to, and the list was growing bigger each week. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy them, I just [...]

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

Reader Janet asked about productivity for new moms (see Contest Announcement: Contest #1).
It brought a smile to my face, because I remember so well my expectations. I was off work on July 1, the baby was due July 14, and then I had 8 weeks of maternity leave. I [...]

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog.

Nothing is more frustrating to me than having to research contact information more than once for someone. Yet I found myself having to do this repeatedly because I wasn’t doing a good job of keeping track of my contacts. Here are some strategies that you can implement to help [...]

The movie The Bucket List is a movie where two terminally ill men fulfill a list of desires before they “kick the bucket”. It’s also become a buzz word in terms of personal development: people are being encouraged to make bucket lists and then move toward them.
Bucket lists differ from David Allen’s Someday/Maybe list in [...]