One of the most effective ways to get more done is to find and eliminate productivity bottlenecks. What do I mean by bottlenecks? These are simply the limiting steps in a process. If it takes you ten ...Full Article
If you’re anything like me, you probably have a whole stack of books sitting around that you’re really going to read some day. Yeah right!Sure, it would be nice to get some more reading done, but let’...Full Article
Have you gotten good at organizing your tasks in a to-do list, but have trouble actually executing them? You’re not alone.Getting things on your to-do list actually done is difficult because it’s real...Full Article
Ever encountered a project where only one decision needs to be made before you can finish the project? It may only take you a few hours to finish the project once that decision is made, but invariably...Full Article
Computers have the potential to vastly increase our personal productivity. They are also, of course, capable of becoming vast time-sinks, sucking our productive moments away in a haze of frustration a...Full Article
Lets say you are wrestling with a tough issue - maybe at work, at home, with your children or in your social life. You have been stuck for a while and you cant seem to make a breakthrough. You want to...Full Article
Everywhere you turn these days people are complaining about too much information . The phrase “information overload” gets more than 1.5 million hits on Google. (This post makes it one more!) Everyone ...Full Article
I read lots of books. I follow several blogs. I take classes. I’ve learned enough new information I want to incorporate into my work that I know I haven’t got a chance of remembering it all. There hav...Full Article
Sometimes I think I’m the shyest person on the planet. Back in the days when I was interviewing for jobs, I had a sad tendency to work myself into a tizzy about whether I was going to make a good impr...Full Article
Productivity. We spend more time reading about it, talking about it, writing about it, thinking about it than actually making it happen. We complicate it with a disjointed system of hacks that don’t r...Full Article
No matter what business you’re in, the odds are that you spend at least some time in appointments. Your appointments may be big group meetings, one-on-ones, or even job interviews. You may even be ski...Full Article
Backing up your data is an essential part of digital life and protects you from losing important information. But when something goes wr...Full Article
Networking online is very similar to networking face to face. You’re ultimately trying to connect with people and forge relationships. The only real difference is that you’re using slightly different ...Full Article
It seems like your computer has been losing speed lately. In fact, its almost as if it keeps slowing down all the time! Though you hate waiting around for long periods of time for your computer to cat...Full Article
For anyone who doesn’t understand why learning a foreign language is a good idea, read 5 Great Reasons to Learn a Foreign Language. Everyone else, let’s get started.Note: I don’t claim that following ...Full Article
What would an ideal workday look like? While there might not be a single answer across the board, all of us can relate to the fact that many of our workdays ...Full Article
As a freelance writer, nothing annoys me more than a client who tells me, “Oh, just get it to me whenever you can.” I hate it! I need deadlines in order to schedule and prioritize my work. I do what I...Full Article
There was a time when it was easy to keep up with your family – they lived down the road, on the block or nearby in the city.That time passed decades ago, with technological advances in transport and ...Full Article
All of us want to be useful to others in some way. We want to feel needed, competent — like we’re making a difference, in some small way. Some people, though, are insanely useful. They are the go-to p...Full Article
Following on from Skellie’s excellent Web Worker series, in this post I’m going to outline some of the most common challenges faced when you work from anywhere and how you can overcome them.Since my h...Full Article
