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

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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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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Organize Yourself Because of These 8 Benefits

May 31, 2012 Leave a Comment

Get Organized

Are you highly organized person or someone who leaves disorganization to affect your productivity?

Organizing ourselves needs investment of our time and efforts in order to become more organized persons. Investing now, or today and feel benefits tomorrow. Do we need such an investment?

The question is something that many people ask themselves. But, you can’t find some type of investment that will bring you immediately benefits.

One thing is true: if we become more organized we will benefit from the system that will organize us.

Here are some of the benefits that you can experience if you invest to organize yourself and become more organized.

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What You Need to Do Before Create To-Do List

May 17, 2012 1 Comment

Goals

To-do lists are one of the most important tools in making us more productive persons. But, as everything else if we use them in the wrong way, there will be a danger that can hurt us.

To-do lists tells us what we need to do today, what is most important for us and when we need to start doing something.

Because they are important tools for our productivity, we need to prepare ourselves for appropriate using them.

What you need to do before start creating to-do lists?

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Where Your Most Productive Work Happened?

May 15, 2012 Leave a Comment

Highly Productive People

Many times I ask myself where are the places of my most productive work. Why that places allow me to be more productive?

Are we most productive at our workplaces?

When I think about the situations when I worked for larger organization what comes to my mind is:

  • While I am working on something, I receive email with the subject urgent from the manager as something important for them.
  • While I am working on something, I receive a phone call from my manager to go in their office to talk about something important for them.
  • While I am working on something in the office, one of my colleagues needed help from me about something important for him.
  • When I sit down to continue with my work, its time for the scheduled meeting.
  • While I am working on something in the office, again there is something important for someone else that I will need to do.

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What You Need to Do if You Feel Overwhelmed by the Work

May 11, 2012 Leave a Comment

work

I know that we always want something more. We need to do more, to make more, to produce more… I don’t think that someone else asks for us about that, but that’s our own expectation. It is in our nature that we will never be satisfied with the current situation.

And, that’s ok, until we become feeling overwhelmed by our own pressures for more. The most dangerous part is that in such a situation where we pressure ourselves, we can lose more of what we have now.

On the other side if we can become more productive we can make more things in the same period.

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