Do either of these two scenarios sound familiar? You make a phone call to someone but they are currently unavailable. You leave a voicemail for them to call you back. You send an email to someone with a question or a concern. You look forward to hearing back from them...
What do you want to do if you want to grow some plants or flowers in a garden? First you buy some seeds, prepare the land, plant and water the seeds, watch over them and in time you’ll have a full garden. There’s no way around it. If you don’t make plans now...
This is one of those riddle-type questions that will surely bring up two camps of thoughts. Let’s take a look at both sides using a production line example. Yes, You Must Work Fast In Order To Be Productive If you want to churn out sheer numbers of something, it can...
We all work in different ways and perform better or worse under a host of different environments. Do you know the optimal conditions for you in which to produce your best work? Location, Location, Location Where do you work best for any given project? Obviously there...
When you think of a product, what comes to mind? A physical product such as a widget, a chair, a diamond, a written report, a cardboard box? If one is to be productive, one must produce. However, does a product necessarily have to be something that can be held in...
Some people are early birds, some people are night owls, and some people fall somewhere in between… It’s one thing to know what section of the 24 hour day in which you function best overall, but to give yourself a boost in productivity, consider figuring out when you...
Need help bringing order to email composition? That is, the actual composition of the body of an email? Read on for a few quick tips to help you streamline the process: Use the “edit” function. Part of the beauty of email is that it is a mini word processing system in...
The word productivity typically connotes activity. Sure you can be active, but just how useful is that activity if it does not help you in your attempt to produce something? Or even worse, what if that activity actually lengthens the amount of time it takes you to...
Sometimes we put our personal projects and tasks on the back burner in lieu of work and school. Have you ever had a personal task that you wanted to get to, but just seemed to drag on? I mean on and on and on? It’s time to put yourself first! Here’s a few ideas to get...
Want to find “lost” time in a day or streamline your daily schedule? Why not give this a try: think backwards to better your future. It is logical to think “forwards” in time when planning our daily routines. Do one thing at 9am, then another thing at 10am, then...