Archive for the Techniques Category

How To Manage People Distractions

Posted on May 18, 2011 by

Nothing can derail productive time faster than distractions. Today I am going to look at people-caused some distractions and give you some strategies for handling them.

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How To Do A Productivity Reboot

Posted on April 18, 2011 by

Mondays are productivity days at SimpleProductivity blog. It’s amazing, isn’t it, that someone who spends so much time talking about productivity, and reading about productivity, should fall flat on her face in productivity, right? At least it is to me. (We’ll talk about expectations in a future article) It was [...]

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10 Things To Say No To

Posted on April 15, 2011 by

I am taking two weeks off from blogging. Enjoy this article from the archive! This article was originally published on 13 July 2007. When I re-published the article on saying no, I began to think about things I could say no to in my life. The original article celebrated an [...]

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5 Ways To Beat Procrastination

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

I am taking two weeks off from blogging. Enjoy this article from the archive! This article was originally published on 25 October 2007. There are many different ways that you can use to beat procrastination. In fact, whole books have been written about ways to get going. Here are the [...]

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Quicker Reboots

Posted on April 11, 2011 by

I am taking two weeks off from blogging. Enjoy this article from the archive! This article was originally published on 27 July 2007. In the article over at Lifehacker, Chris Brogan commented on how he could make a quicker reboot for life. I find this an interesting topic…and like Chris, [...]

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2 Basics for Getting Things Done Faster

Posted on April 4, 2011 by

I am taking two weeks off from blogging. Enjoy this article from the archive! This article was originally published on 19 June 2007. One of the ways to get things done faster is to set a tight deadline…and then pare down the task at hand to the bare essentials. The [...]

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My Take On Zone Cleaning: Or The 13 Zones

Posted on March 4, 2011 by

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. One of Flylady’s big ideas is breaking the house down into five zones and clean in the zone-of-the-week, one week in the month for each zone. Being the geek that I am, I had two problems with this system: no month contains five [...]

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Simplify By Solving Problems

Posted on January 26, 2011 by

Wednesdays are simplicity days at SimpleProductivity blog. Many times simplification is taken as about getting rid of “stuff”. While that is true, sometimes simplification is about changing the way things are done, or solving a problem. This distinction was brought home to me when I opened a cabinet a few [...]

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