If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves. ~ David Allen

How Can You Successfully Manage Your Time

March 29, 2013 Leave a Comment

time management

What is one thing that you as a person will never have enough? What you think about this question? Probably the answer of many of you will be enough time.

You will always have only 24 hours in your day, and you need to do everything that you need to be done in that 24 hours.

Because of that time management is important part of your productivity. As you already know productivity is a measurement that will present the quantity of the work that you have done in a specific time.

The biggest question today’s modern and successful people continuously are asking themselves is how they can successfully manage their time. Because of the importance of time management on one side, and a dynamic environment of our work on other side, this question becomes more and more important for entrepreneurs.

Here are some tips that can help you in your efforts to become your own master of your destiny when it comes to time management.

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[Infographic] Top 10 Time Killers

March 16, 2013 Leave a Comment

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I am hardly working to improve my productivity no matter where I work and in what type of context is based my particular working tasks. In the last several months, I succeed in increasing my productivity especially in decreasing time that I spend in email processing and on social medias.

Implementing different productivity tools and processes I was able to decrease time that I spend on email processing from four hours weekly to two hours weekly. That is cutting of ten hours monthly, only from one thing – email processing.

Here is an excellent infographic from OfficeTime explaining top ten time killers and how to fight them.

The starting point in everything that will enable you to increase your own productivity is to know how and why you spend time on specific activities.

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7 Important Productivity Questions

December 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

What is Productivity

When we talk about productivity, we talk about our personal and business goals and their achievement.

If you succeed to achieve that goals in the time related to them, you can say that you are productive.

We start with something. Work to achieve our goals and validate the end results according that goals.

Because of that, I think that we need to answer seven important questions that will have the high effect on our productivity. If we have very clear answers, we can succeed in managing our work to be more productive.

What are that seven questions?

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Rest Your Brain to Increase Productivity

December 6, 2012 Leave a Comment

BrainSometimes, we can’t do stuff because simply we feel that we can’t. In many cases, this situation comes because of fatigue of our brain.

Do you find yourself in a situation when you try to read something, and you reading, but your brain doesn’t process what you read?

Do you find yourself in a situation when you need to write something, but the words can come into your brain to be transferred on piece of paper? Or, at the end of the day when you feel that the work you do is not doing good?

When something can’t be done, it can’t be done.

What is the solution for this problem?

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How to Measure Your Productivity?

December 5, 2012 Leave a Comment

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How you know whether you are productive or not?

Productivity is the output as results per unit of input as a labor, equipment, and capital.

Another one explanation of productivity can be how much work we have done in specific time unit. For example, how much products we produce in one day, or how much articles we write in two hours, or how much words we can read in one hour…

Every day we make a list with lot of things that we need to do for that day. If your workday is 8 hours if you finish everything on your list, you can say that you have very productive day.

But, it is not true. What, about our wrong expectation for our working day? What if we can do more than the list of tasks for the particular day?

If we take into the consideration other things, we will have very different view of our own productivity. For example, I work from 09:00 AM until 17:00AM, for particular day I have five tasks on my to-do list, and my day looks something like this:

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14 Tactics to Avoid Distractions When You Are Working

December 4, 2012 Leave a Comment

Productivity Steps

Distraction is one of the biggest enemies of your own productivity.

Do you find yourself in a position when you start working on something important for you, or your business and you stop with the work because simply in your office come your colleague to ask for something, or you receive the sound for newly received message, or you find something interested on the net…

Someone else priority is not your priority. You have your very own priorities.

The most important question today, when we live in a distraction based environment with so many gadgets, is how we can affect to eliminate distractions.

Here, I want to present 14 possible tactics that you can use if you want to enter the battle with distraction.

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Stress-Free Productivity – TEDx Talk

December 3, 2012 Leave a Comment

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Very useful presentation by productivity guru and coach David Allen at TEDx Talk where he talks about stress free productivity.

Can we have really stress free productivity? I think we can.

I have really enjoyed to watch this video and learn something new.

Weekend Productivity Tools December First

December 1, 2012 Leave a Comment

Weekly Productivity Tools

Each week I want to share different productivity tools, articles, or ideas that I find in the previous week. You can find all earlier published post about weekly productivity tools here.

Today, we are witnesses of high technological effect of our everyday life. That means that we use different technological solutions to stay on top of our to-do list. We use different technological solutions to be more productive, to remember everything, to learn more and more…

I want to learn, to try different things, to test different options to become more productive person.

This series of posts on My Productivity Tools is the place where I share different resources that I find and think will be useful in increasing my own and your productivity. I encourage you to check the links also try tools to see how they can affect on your personal and professional life.

Excellent productivity stuff that I chose for this week:

  • Rescue Time. Rescue Time is the tool that measure everything that I do on my computer and categorze the work as productive and unproductive work. The tool can be customized according to my own selection of productive and unproductive work. I can easily see where I spend my unproductive time and think about the strategy to decrease it or eliminate it. All in all this is the excellent tool.
  • Marc Andreessen’s Productivity Trick to Managing Your Own Psychology. This article talk about Anti-todo lists which you can use every time you do something useful during the day. You simple write it down in your Anti-Todo List all your accomplishments
  • How to Get Away From Your Tight Schedule (And Still Get Things Done). Excellent article explaining our true about very tight schedules that we make to ourselves. Such schedules, instead to be tool to improve our productivity becomes the tool that increase our stress level. Here, you can find a useful blueprint for creating solid scheduling practice.

If you missed something, here are the posts titles from this week at My Productivity Tools:

[Infographic] Work is Not a Place, It’s a State of Mind

November 30, 2012 Leave a Comment

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The technology around us in our everyday life change the way how we do the work, and how the work process is accomplished by us.

You can’t separate anymore working at work from working at home. The complexity of work tasks needs more complex processes.

How you are doing your work? Is it accomplished only at work as a place, or home as a place? Or it is done in combination work and home?

Look at this info graphic, courtesy of Compliance and Safety, about work as a state of mind.

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Goal Set up Mistakes

June 5, 2012 Leave a Comment

Goals

Can you be a productive person without achieving your goals? The answer is probably not.

Can you know are you a productive person without goals that you need to achieve?

Everything that you do have connections with some of your goal, and because of that they become important part in building your own productivity.

But, as human beings we can make mistakes. The important thing is that we need them, and we need to work toward their achievement. On the other side if we have wrong goal, our productivity will suffer. Is there something achieved as unimportant for us can to become something that will increase our productivity?

The mistakes that you can make when you set up your goals, and that can decrease your productivity are following:

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