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 »

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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STOP ALL the Interruptions!!

We often get inter­rupts at work.  And times they can be very counter-productive when we put aside our cur­rent tasks to address the inter­rupts.  Part of our time spent on inter­rupts hurts our per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity.    Many inter­rupts are avoid­able with advance plan­ning.  The bet­ter you plan ahead, the fewer the “crises” will arise.  Think, are all inter­rupts urgent?  Some­times, sit­u­a­tions can be han­dled at a later and some­times it gets “resolved” by its own.…  How do we get our­selves to han­dle inter­rupts effec­tively? 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 »