You need to make a decision today.
You know it. And you probably even know your choice.
Yet, it has been put off for some time.
You need to make that decision today.
Starting Your Week Unprepared? Make Sure You Look at Your Personal Dashboard
Do you know what’s coming your way this week?
Much of the stress and surprises headed your way can be avoided.
A quick check of your personal dashboard can help you know where you are going and what you need to do.
TMN Productivity Chat with Mike Vardy
Today, I have a productivity chat with my friend Mike Vardy of the Productivityist.com
In it, we talk about Mike’s new book, the “why” of productivity, and of course, many time management tools and tips. (Links below)
Can You Stay on Task for 5 Minutes?
We live in a world of distractions.
Cell phones. Email. Text messages. Notifications. Pop-ups. And more.
How do you get your work done if you are constantly being interrupted?
I’ll bet you don’t make it through this post without something buzzing, ringing, flashing, or distracting your attention.
7 Ways Your Time Management Is Putting You At Risk
I worked with an individual whose time management was destroying him.
His work reputation was that of a slacker who didn’t get anything done. People did not want to work with him. They were afraid to rely on him for tasks, and important projects were given to others.
In fact, he was on the verge of losing his job.
His relationships were not strong. Others stopped inviting him to events, because he often failed to show up.
His health was suffering because he never had time to exercise or get to the gym.
This individual’s disorganization was destroying him on all fronts… work, personal, and health.
What about you? Is your productivity putting you at risk?
Stop Meeting and Start Working
How many meetings are on your calendar today?
Take a moment, and count them.
Now, add up how much of your day will be spent in a conference room or on a call.
Better yet, how much of your day is left to get work done?
The 10 Productivity Problems Your Company Is Ignoring
What makes your company less productive?
Chances are, your employees know the answer to this one.
They are quick to respond with issues like endless meetings, overflowing email, and more.
And yet management wonders why work isn’t getting done.
Is your company ignoring productivity problems in the workplace?
Pick 5 Little Things To Change Your Life Today
Do you have big goals?
Big things that you want to change in your life?
If so, I want to shift your thinking today. Because, often we get caught up in the big changes.
We lose sight of the little things and don’t consider the impact that even small steps can make in our lives.
Today, I want you to change 5 little things in your day.
4 Rules for Optimizing Your Time Investments
This is a guest post by Hillary Rettig. Hillary’s latest book is The 7 Secrets of the Prolific: The Definitive Guide to Overcoming Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Writer’s Block (Infinite Art, 2013). You may follow her on Twitter.
The wisdom of investing your time, versus spending it, has been well established. You want to do that as much as possible because your investments–e.g., relationships, self-care, education, and a passionate vocation or hobby—yield a profound return in terms of productivity and happiness. Expenses, in contrast, yield no such return and often subtract from your health and happiness.
However, the division between investments and expenses isn’t always clear. Here are four principles that will help you live as much as possible in the investment realm…
Great note-taking app this week from John Gruber and the team at Q Branch.
It’s called Vesper. And it is a simple, minimalistic, and beautiful app to collect your ideas, notes, and pics.
It allows you to take notes and organize them by tags, which I find more efficient than constantly trying to file notes by folders, etc. It also allows you to attach pictures to notes, which can be very handy.
Vesper is vying against the Drafts App for me. Drafts is more feature rich and has markdown formatting. (Ironic, that Gruber’s app doesn’t support markdown… since he basically created it.)
One note: There is not currently any sync feature. No Dropbox, iCloud, or Evernote export. This is perhaps the one feature keeping me from switching to it full-time. Hope to see this added in a future release.
Are you looking for a clean and frictionless app to collect your ideas? Give Vesper a spin. I am currently using it to collect blog post ideas and topics for my next book.
Get Vesper in the App Store.