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Want more tips? Listen to Tony Robbins' Time of Your Life. Seriously. (Hey Ben, how did you like Tony?) Mega tips on time management which gives you the time to FOCUS on the RIGHT THINGS and get the job done.
Within 10 seconds of hitting submit here, my email goes off. One more thing. No Blackberry, no Twitter, no MyBlogLog. Dead serious. Do or do not. No "try". No pretending.....
Hope to see your productivity tips on your blog...
Google Alert saves me so much time as I don't need to go searching out there for relevant topics, things, or just to check if someone has copied something of mine online. Google Alert tracks it all for me!
My No. 1 Productivity Tip is to do the most important thing first. Use your diary to block out the time and don't let anyone or anything distract you.
I hope you will and tag others to keep the idea spreading...
Thanks for stopping by!
Empty your inbox (both paper and electronic) every day. People have a tendency to leave items there as a reminder that they need to act on them, but too often they just get buried and forgotten. Instead, enter the action on your to-do list and put the email or document in an appropriate folder to be referenced when you’re ready to work on it.
I definitely leave too many emails in my inbox as "to-dos" so what I'm doing now is setting a goal to tackle 10-20 older emails/day with the hope of clearing things out soon enough, while keeping on top of newer emails.
Thanks for the nudge! There are some great posts coming out of this project... mine is all about clarity (you should see the trackback soon, I'm guessing).
Great idea — and thanks again for asking me to contribute!
Todd - I'm glad you like the idea and hope you'll participate as well...
Tip added to my blog (thanks to Janet Barclay for the tag) and email sent.
There are a lot of great tips here! (My tip is in the blog post linked from this comment.)
Cheers,
Alex
Lovin' this...
http://demystifyingtechnolgoy.blogspot.com/2007...
Adam - Monk at Work - tagged me with this very interesting Meme. Already found some very useful tips being 'spread' around the blogosphere.
Just published my own contribution to the meme
Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)
Every trackback or email I get about a post will result in links back though, so hopefully we keep some form of master list!
My tip has to do with maintaining productivity in the midst of interruptions, posted over at my blog. With two lovely links to you, so please enjoy!
Lexi
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Productivity Tip for Students (From the Other Side of the Fence)
One Is A Productive Number
http://www.productivitygoal.com/2007/05/one_is_...
My love/hate relationship with the kitchen ended when I started planning meals. Usually done on the weekend, with pen and paper in hand, I sit at the kitchen table with my recipe books (or use Recipezaar — I swear, it’s saved my marriage on numerous occasions) and plan all my meals for the week ahead. From that, I make my grocery list and go shopping. Not only does this save time, it also saves money and prevents the frustration of going through the aisles and not really knowing what to buy.
You can read the entire post here: http://blog.cristinafavreau.com/2007/05/ultimat...
I look forward to reading the e-book.
Definition: Figure out what you want, get over your fears,see past society’s “expectationsâ€, and figure out what it will really cost to get to where you want. It can be surprisingly cheap, costing less than what you’re paying now.
Elimination:is about Time Management, or rather about NOT managing time. Instead, apply the 80/20 rule to focus only on those tasks that contribute the majority of benefit. Also apply it ruthlessly to all aspects of your life to eliminate the small minority of factors that waste 80% of your time. Forget time management, focus instead on getting the really important and results-producing tasks done.
Automation is all about building a sustainable, automatic source of income. This is a section that is, practically speaking, aboutBusiness and Business Management. The trick is to avoid is building a business that requires your presence, because that just burns up all your time.
Liberation: Once you’ve successfully automated your lifestyle,liberate yourself from your geographical location and your job. It’s a lot easier than you think, once you’ve gotten through the previous three steps. With mobility comes the ability to leverage economic advantages across the world. (Source).
And read more here: www.fourhourworkweek.com
It has a book available at Barnes&Nobles.com.
Thanks for this wonderful post!
That and my Ical
GP in Montana
This was all started by the Instigator Blog to ask each of us our #1 productivity tip.
Here's a blog article about this idea:
http://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/2006/09...
I'm still a Gmail addict but getting better. And I appreciate the link...
Having seen my productive capacity land me in burn out a few times, I've learned to approach productivity more strategically.
Read my contribution here:
http://maryanncopson.typepad.com/evenstar/2007/...
Productive capacity leading to burn out...too productive which results in doing too much which results in burn out?
The ideas of burn out and productivity are most certainly intertwined and well worth further discussion.
Greetings ben and all productivity players I've found with innkeeping or any other endeavour... the more i have to do , the more I can do
Just another day in the life of an innkeeper
Great project. I was tagged by Roger Carr and have contributed my post at http://www.WorldWantingPeace.com
Thanks,
David Perdew
“There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.â€
-Peter Drucker
As a student of human behavior, I have always taken an interest in how decisions beget decisions. Life presents you with options. Each decision you make influences the options you have later. Some decisions close options. Some reveal options you didn’t anticipate.[...]
I was tagged by Kivi Leroux Miller at Nonprofit Communications.
Go to http://www.everydaygivingblog.com/2007/05/kivi_... to read my contribution.
Thanks,
Roger Carr
I saw this on a friends blog and just posted my tip on my blog.
http://www.fosterscreations.us/blog/blog.html
Each day I save the text files, error investigations, screen shots, document drafts, etc., in that days folder. At the end of the month, they are moved into a archive folder labeled temp/2007/05. It's a digital notebook.
More important files are saved in our CM system.
My productivity tip is based on my own experience, which is that quality is more important than quantity. What good does it do me to do a bunch 'o stuff, if it's the wrong stuff?
So, here's the tip: whenever thinking about doing something, ask yourself a question: "Will doing this help me find, know, feel or achieve something that's important to me?"
If not, why do it? If so, why not do it?
Warmly,
Erika
Thanks
Giselle