This has been a hell of a year. COVID has put a stress on most working people, if it left them employed at all.I've been working at home since March, and there is no sign of returning to the office. Yet our team is thriving. Someone recently asked me why I thought that was the case. And here are the…
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In the recent reader survey, several people asked me how I managed to get everything done and have so much energy. Today's episode divulges my secret.
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The Pareto Principle has been much abused in productivity circles. But I recently saw something that blew me away. Someone suggested that if 80% of the results comes from 20% of the work, then it must also hold that 64% of the results comes from 4% of the work. Umm, no.So I'm going to put on my math teacher hat…
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Eating frogs? Ick! Well, if you eat a frog first thing in the morning, nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. And that applies to productivity as well. Brian Tracy's book, Eat That Frog! puts some basic productivity principles he's used for success into terms of how to find the frogs, and swallow them down.
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This episode debuts the segment format: Segment 1: Antelopes, Mice and Energy ROI Segment 2: The Pickle Jar Theory Of Time Management Segment 3: Tying it All Together
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I've believed for a while it is possible to be over-systemized. At the point where our productivity systems, whatever flavor they are, begin to take up more time than they save, they have crossed the threshold and have run up against the Law of Diminishing Returns, where at some point, each additional unit input yields less output.So where is the…
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I've been buying Amazon books since 2009. That's a whole lot of books. And while writing a recent article on backlogs, I realized that I have built up a huge backlog of unread books on my Kindle.How many, exactly? Well, there's no easy way to tell.Because Amazon doesn't have a way to export your purchased book lists from their system.That…
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I was having to decide, time after time, what I was going to do every single time I looked at my tasks. It was draining my productivity as surely as a thousand tiny cuts would drain my blood. So I needed to revamp my task system.
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There are experts everywhere. Some are self-proclaimed, some lauded by others. But before we give credence to their words, we really owe it to ourselves to begin by checking out the expert's credentials.How much can you trust your "expert"? How much can a person teach you? Do they have any experience in what they are teaching? All valuable questions.
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How many times have you started something just to be stopped by having to fetch needed material or run to the store or do another task first? Wouldn't it be nice just to have everything ready to go? It would certainly help us get started faster.
