4 Productivity Mistakes You Don’t Know You’re Making
There are a lot of people talking about what you ought to do to be more productive, or which fancy tools and apps you should use to get more things done. However, there aren’t as many people talking about what you shouldn’t do to try and be more productive, or which activities will make you [...]
How to Tell if You are Really Tired or Just Being Lazy
You already know that you are supposed to take breaks. The studies have spoken: taking breaks improves productivity. This comes as great news for most of us — who doesn’t want to be encouraged to take breaks? – but putting the science into practice requires putting in some thought. Choosing to rest rather than keep [...]
Productivity Not an Indicator of Employee Engagement, New Study Finds
Ideally, we’d want the highest performing employees to be the most engaged with the company; the ones that are motivated to give 100% and would think their company is a great employer. However, this isn’t the case. New analysis from employee engagement survey firm Leadership IQ reveals just the opposite. In 42% of the organizations [...]
How to Build Good Habits
Habits are powerful. Maybe more powerful than you think. Habits become more deeply ingrained than the color of our hair, both a blessing and a curse: a blessing in that they enact gradual changes upon us without demanding our full attention; a curse in that they can also be nearly impossible to shake. Become the master of your [...]
Productivity Is As Close As Your Next Batch
“Batch.” When you hear that word, are you thinking chocolate chips? Because I sure am, but thinking past the next batch of cookies, you’ll find that batching is a highly useful tool that can help you be more productive in your work or personal life. Batching refers to grouping like tasks together and doing them [...]
Improve Your Productivity by Reducing Decision Fatigue
From the moment that we wake up, we are making decisions. Will I hit the snooze button? Neurons start firing off. The more mental energy that you expend on making decisions, the less you have for the tasks remaining throughout the day. This is decision fatigue. Left unmanaged, decision fatigue can impair productivity. Paring down [...]
5 Web Apps to Improve Your Productivity as an Independent Contractor
Independent contractors face some unique challenges. Without an in house IT department, marketing team or accountant, a freelancer shoulders all of those responsibilities for themselves. Many freelancers do everything they can to avoid the administrative half of their job, but like a xenophobe in the city, there is no escaping it. Luckily there are a [...]
You Think You Have More Going On Than You Actually Really Do
When I talk to people who are really busy with life, I see some things they have in common. The major thing is, they think they are more busy than they really are. Having kids in the equation throws a lot of curveballs in the mix but there are a lot of ways to productively [...]
Working from Home as a Productivity Boost
And How to Pitch it to Your Boss Tech giant Yahoo is the major enterprise making headlines regarding its new work-from-home policy, or its new lack of one. However, according to Families and Work Institute’s 2012 National Study of Employers, 63 percent of employers now allow at least some of their employees to work [...]
You Say Tomato; I Say Productivity
What’s round and red and productive all over? A little tomato timer task master that is the heart of popular productivity booster, the “Pomodoro Technique.” Yep, that Italian tomato that makes delicious marinara is also making people more productive — 25 minutes at a time.
