Setting and meeting your deadlines is a huge part of whether or not you are productive or not. Setting deadlines and achieving them is an art that you can learn with some patience and practice. However, common mistakes can quickly derail your productivity and leave...
If you find it difficult to manage your time and get your tasks done during the day, you may need to start utilizing a time management technique known as time-boxing. Time-boxing requires you to allot chunks of time to each of your tasks. Once your...
There has been plenty of discussion about how a calendar can fit into one's productivity system. The general rule is that you add scheduled appointments to your calendar, and your tasks should be placed into the task management system that you use. However, what often...
If you have ever worked for yourself or worked alone, you will at some time notice you lack focus. The kids, the TV, Internet, and some times just the complete silence take you out of your prime zone. Maybe you are like me and you...
On my Mac - I have a small program that allows me to clean up extra added weight to my computer. These are useless files and items cached in my browsers that make my computer slow. Extra language files and essentially a bunch of stuff...
I declare today a ME Day. I am sure you are asking yourself, "what in the world is a ME Day?" Well, let's start here. Most small business owners spend a lot of time taking care of others. I mean you have clients/customers and you have...
Any time of the year is a good time to look through and check over your social networks. For me, the beginning of the year is a logical time to rebrand and freshen up my social networks. What I'm looking for, is to see whether my...
How often do you check your email? Every hour? Every few minutes? Or is it every time that little “unread” number pops up? If you suffer from email overload, that little number can make you crazy – and plenty unproductive as well. But a little discipline...
This by far has to be the best $15 I've spent on an app, in a very long time. Anti-Social is an app that has increased my productivity at least 40% since I got it. If you're like me, or you work in the social...
My friends, I think I've finally found it. I have finally found the productivity app that will solve a lot of the issues I have been having with my efficiency. Let me tell you I am now using the Dragon Dictate. It has taken a...