Info, info, info, info, info, info, info, info….everywhere but not a drop to think?
Are you bobbing, almost drowning, in a sea of information?
Take this article, why are you reading it? Don’t go away just yet, I have my own simple answer at the end.
We have reached the point where the productivity experts are just adding to […]
“It’s better to train your people and have them leave than it is to not train them and they stay or they don’t get training and they leave.” - Phil Gerbyshak
OK, so it’s no shock I’m a HUGE proponent of training. I write at 3 blogs frequently (Slacker Manager obviously, Make It Great! and Joyful […]
Are you traveling this holiday season and thinking you may not have enough room in your bag for all the gifts you’re sharing with family and friends?Check out Monica Ricci’s fantastic travel hack: stuffing your dress shoes inside your sneakers. Monica warns this may not be suitable for those with really expensive dress shoes, though I would […]
Have you ticked your boss off and don’t know what to do? Oh yes you have, that’s why you’re here.
Thankfully, Brad Isaac shares his best tips in 5 Ways to Disarm a Grumpy Boss:
It is Monday Morning. You walk into work and your boss is grumpy. What do you do? Do you skulk off to […]
Are you making a bundle?
Of course making a bundle of cash may be quite helpful but today’s post is on bundling our work and activities together for increased efficiency.
Do we allow our work to scatter over the day and avoid the efficiencies of making bundles? For example, think about gathering wood for a fire. If you […]
Are you ready to grab GEMO and go with it?
This September, I have accelerated my accomplishments on a lot of projects and new initatives because I found GEMO.
GEMO is an acronym for Good Enough, Move On. It helps avoid perfectionism, dithering, delays, and other productivity traps and snarls.
Here is how you practice it. You work at something, you […]
Are you asking the most important question about how to use your time in the present moment?
In the 1990’s, I conducted courses and groups at the University of Manitoba on overcoming procrastination. I used a variety of approaches to help people overcome procrastination, including time management.
This was before the age of Getting Things Done and was […]
Where does your weekend go?
Are you a Saturday Slacker? Or a Sunday Slacker?
I encourage you to look at how you spend your weekend.
Do you use the weekend to get away from work - rest and recovery?
Do you use the weekend to work?
Does the nature of your work change on the weekend?
Is your weekend planned or […]
“Recent research shows that 70% of white collar workers are unhappy with their jobs, ironically they are spending an increasing amount of time working.”
~Dan Miller, 48 Days to the Work You Love
If you are not satisfied with your current employment situation, then I highly recommend this book. Miller has laid out some easy-to-follow steps that […]
Here is a snippet from the New Scientist:
If you want a robot to move more gracefully make it as lazy as possible. So says Oussama Khatib of Stanford University in California, who is looking ahead to a future in which humans interact more closely with robots, and where we will expect them to move more like […]
Journaling is an excellent way to track your activities, capture thoughts and ideas, and generally empty your head when necessary. Almost all of the popular productivity techniques involve some sort of “brain dump” or “mind like water” philosophy. The dilemma comes to separating work from home. I’ve heard it advocated to not separate them, but […]
My laptop was running slow (as usual) and I was cursing Microsoft - usual too :) .
I tried various tweaks including turning off fancy graphics and deleting temporary files.
Final step - defragment the disk.
This is where i met my nemesis - it took 4 hrs and 26 minutes to defragment a 40GB disk - […]
By now we’ve probably all suffered the ill effects of poor email habits. Whether that’s the premature punch of the send button, or the too-quickly written screed drafted in anger, or the mistaken “To:” recipients, we’ve all been there and felt the sting.
Adding some strategy to these hard lessons is a new ChangeThis manifesto by […]
I’ve got 5 invites to Skitch for the first five commenters. Skitch is a Mac-only image tool that rocks pretty hard. It’ll do quick screenshots, framegrabs, etc. It also hooks into iPhoto nicely and has all the basic image editing tools you probably need. And it’s pretty.
Leave a comment if you’d like to check it […]
This is a question for any fountain pen aficionados out there: how do you jumpstart your ink flow after letting your pen rest overnight (or a couple of days)?
This has always bothered me, and I’ve tried a variety of solutions. The “lick it” trick (over and over until the ink flows freely); the dip in […]
Paving the path of least resistance, so you don't trip and fall.
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