8 Steps to Improve Your Productivity

8 Steps to Improve Your Productivity

Improving productivity saves you valuable personal resources, including:•    Time spent •    Money invested•    Energy expended•    Emotional capacity consumed It’s important to take steps every...
Reaching a Deeper Understanding

Reaching a Deeper Understanding

Each of us is different. There are great similarities amongst all persons and many productivity principles and techniques can be applied by us all, but each of our individual algorithms for optimum productivity will be different. A personal inventory is required to...
Let’s Get Organized!

Let’s Get Organized!

This will look different for each person. And it does not necessarily mean cleaning up. The idea is to organize your space to best fit your work, play, and creative style. Doing so can optimize how quickly you find and retrieve needed information and tools. Here...
Smart Tips for your Smartphone

Smart Tips for your Smartphone

Today’s smartphones are remarkable devices that can add real value to one’s life. But if mismanaged, smartphones can be a productivity killer. Consider the following best productivity practices to have your phone work for you and not against you. Configure your phone...
Seek Isolation for Concentration!

Seek Isolation for Concentration!

Finding it difficult to focus? Sometimes a little space is all you need. Isolate yourself from too familiar or too comfortable surroundings. Studies show that your local coffee house can be a tremendous place to get work done. How can that be? The cacophony of...
Practice the s.t.a.r. technique

Practice the s.t.a.r. technique

Maintain situational awareness of task surroundings and circumstances Improve task focus by consistently practicing the STAR technique—pausing to Stop, Think, Act, and Review—before executing a given task or each of a series of tasks Have a questioning attitude Stop a...