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How is it that a bright, motivated professional can procrastinate day after day, month after month, and year after year? Because procrastination works. It keeps you from having to do the task that you just hate to do. Well here’s the news, folks, you can break the habit!
1.  Can you pay (a reasonable sum) to [...]

Tags: delegate, Delegation, procrastination, procrastinator, Productivity, projects, put off

How is it that a grown woman/man can procrastinate day after day, month after month, and year after year? Because procrastination works. It keeps you from having to do the task that you just hate to do. Well here’s the news, folks, you can break the habit!
1. Keep a procrastination log. (You’ll enjoy this because [...]

Tags: procrastination, procrastinator, Productivity

If you want to write a “top ten” list to help people be more productive, just do the following:
Title your set of tips, e.g., “Top Ten Productivity Tips to Help You _________.”
Write an introduction. Your introduction can be one sentence or a full paragraph. It’s just a little introductory piece that prepares everyone for the [...]

Tags: blog, Productivity, tips, write, writing

Keep your email OFF for long periods of time each day.  And note:  This is not an anti-email post.  It is a pro-productivity approach. 
We have all ignored priorities while we fiddled away your day…on distractions such as email.  Believe me, I know this because I’ve done it myself (more than once!!)
Let this post enhance your [...]

Tags: email, priorities, Productivity, time, timer

Hold on to your hats. Here’s a pronouncement that flies in the face of what has become common practice – and if you do this, your peaceful productivity will increase immediately. Are you ready. Here it is:
Keep your email OFF for long periods of time each day.
Yes, that’s what I said – and [...]

Tags: batch, email, productive, Productivity

A great question was submitted by a Life of E’s member:
One of the things I find it hardest to handle as a boss is giving negative feedback. By that I mean telling a student or employee that they are not performing to par. I have a crew of three – one rock solid employee, one [...]

Tags: employees, feedback, Productivity, work ethic

 
In addition to the ASAR folder discussed in yesterday’s post, another one to help keep your inbox unclogged is “Waiting For” – and you use it for any email that you are not yet finished with because it has at least one more action associated with it, but you can’t go further with the action [...]

Tags: action, email, Productivity, time, waiting for response

The main idea for you to keep in mind is that you are consciously and very deliberately DECIDING to DEFER. So, now, here’s the question. What do you do with those emails that you’ve deferred?
What most people do, unfortunately, is leave them in their inbox, which is a poor solution. These emails just pile [...]

Tags: action, email, inbox, overwhelm, Productivity

Allen, David. Getting Things Done, The Art of Stressfree Productivity
The minute Amazon.com alerted me to this book (pretty much the day it came out) and I saw the title, I bought it – and that was YEARS ago. I was ready for it and it has made a huge difference for me. It’s not a [...]

Tags: amazon prime program, David Allen, Productivity, stressfree

In yesterday’s post, you learned how to set up folders.  Today, we will talk about how to structure your folders.  Let’s get a visual image first.  
Imagine your file cabinet.  When you open it up, you might see 10 folders in there.  That’s all fine, but if you started stuffing each individual folder with several folders and [...]

Tags: email, folders, organization, Productivity