Harness Powerful Calendar Productivity!

The cal­en­dar, one of the tools amongst those we used to man­age pro­duc­tiv­ity is often abuse.  Plan­ning is intrin­sic in our behav­iour.  It requires self-discipline.  It must be part of our habit.  When the cal­en­dar is abused, instead of achiev­ing pro­duc­tiv­ity, we stum­ble with man­ag­ing mul­ti­ple cal­en­dars, hurt­ing our over­all pro­duc­tiv­ity.  It doesn’t mat­ter if you pre­fer low tech paper cal­en­dars or high tech elec­tronic ones; it is not impor­tant with the design or the type of spe­cial entries you can use with the cal­en­dar.  The most impor­tant thing is that you are most com­fort­able using, the faster in using it and the most con­sis­tently you can keep up with it. Read the rest of this entry »

Absorb Information Faster Than Your Peers!

Part of per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity is to be able to absorb infor­ma­tion fast and process it.  Your abil­ity to read fast there­fore is very impor­tant and has an impact of your over­all per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity.  Are you always stuck with the prob­lem of catch­ing up with other co-worker’s speed in read­ing or absorb­ing infor­ma­tion?  If part of the job is read­ing tons and tons of doc­u­ments, the fol­low­ing rec­om­mended tips will be use­ful for you to over­come slow­ness in read­ing.  We need to begin by set­ting up the right envi­ron­ment for absorb­ing infor­ma­tion. Read the rest of this entry »

Plan the Day and Week!

The value of plan­ning can­not be under­es­ti­mated.  Every­day, we are immersed doing some form of task or the other.   We need to work effec­tively and pro­duce out­put on time.  Daily and weekly plan­ning are essen­tial to cre­ate enough time for us to man­age our time at work and at home.  Plan­ning include time for work, busi­ness, fam­ily and health con­cerns.  Plan­ning allows us to have a clear path for our­selves that main­tains a bal­ance of work and play.

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5 Simple Steps to Handle Tasks Effectively

Every­day we are bom­barded with numer­ous tasks.  Our plates are usu­ally over­flowed with spaghetti-ed tasks.  Some­times, far too many that we alone can cope.  How can we stay effec­tive and pro­duc­tive then with so many tasks requir­ing our atten­tion?  The answer lies in two things: that is time and pri­or­ity man­age­ment.  We know that we have lim­ited amount of time in a day.  There­fore, it’s essen­tial to fully opti­mize our­selves for full effec­tive­ness.  Fol­low­ing is the 5 sim­ple steps you can do to han­dle tasks effec­tively. Read the rest of this entry »

9 Reasons We Don’t Do What We Should

Be it if you are an employee or a man­ager, there are times that you are not doing what you should be.  The worst thing that can hap­pen is that you are ALWAYS not doing what you should be doing.  This is def­i­nitely no good and this is def­i­nitely bad news for every­one.  You don’t deliver any pro­duc­tive out­put.  You laze around.  You get screwed by the boss… In all aspects of our lives, we have nine things that put us to a stop when we want to get some­thing done.  What are they? Read the rest of this entry »

Why Do We Don’t Do What We Should!

Why are we not doing the things we should at work?  What can be stop­ping us from pro­duc­ing pro­duc­tive out­put in our daily work?  From another angle, what can be the things that are block­ades for your co-workers in deliv­er­ing qual­ity work on time?  We’re humans after all…  But we seemed to be unpro­duc­tive every­day and hop­ing to pass the dreaded day through with lit­tle excite­ment.  There must be some­thing that is just not right for us to get things out on time.  To get us achieve some down-right pro­duc­tive, right?  What can they be? Read the rest of this entry »

Put One Thing at a Time!

On a con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, in our mod­ern day, the per­son that can per­form mul­ti­task­ing seemed to be the most pro­duc­tive per­son in office.  On a daily basis you’ve got to work on mul­ti­ple things at one go.  We are bom­barded from mul­ti­ple projects at one shot.  We get unplanned requests every day.  What’s worst, there are already fewer peo­ple in most orga­ni­za­tions than ever before, and most of us have more work heaped on us that before.  So you are pro­duc­tive.  Right? Read the rest of this entry »

10 Ways to Superb Email Productivity!

One of the biggest prob­lems we are fac­ing today is han­dling big quan­ti­ties of infor­ma­tion. Our tech­nol­ogy and access to infor­ma­tion is elec­tri­fy­ing but it is a double-edged foil. It fills our minds and our lives with mud­dle.   The chal­lenge is to sort, fil­ter, orga­nize, drop and assim­i­late the big amounts of infor­ma­tion we are exposed to on a day-to-day basis. So what are we to do? Here are a cou­ple of things I have proven to help me man­age my mail bet­ter. Read the rest of this entry »

9 Simple Tips to Super-Productivity

We’ve agreed that a day we are given a 24 hour pay-check.  We are not able to deposit this for another day to use nor can we add an addi­tional 1 hour to the pay-check.  With only 8 ½ hours in the work­place, that’s all we’ve got to play with in the day at work.  We want to be super-productive, deliver work on time and avoid over­time.  We can be super-productive by min­i­miz­ing the unnec­es­sary.   How do we become super-productivity in the work­place? Read the rest of this entry »

Power up Your Personal Productivity

Have you ever won­dered that there are so many things to do but yet so lit­tle time to use?  Have you always been busy at work?  Have you always been say­ing, “I’m busy”, “not now…” or “I do not have enough time!”  At the end of the day, you feel there is no sense of achieve­ment from a long day at work and you have no clue about it.  Have you always envy the per­for­mance and time man­age­ment of your co-workers? (Or you sim­ply don’t care).  Do you want to power up your per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity and improve your time man­age­ment like your co-workers? Read the rest of this entry »