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When structuring your day, try to align your tasks with your energy level. Here are some thoughts on how to do it.…
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If you truly want to be productive you must get disciplined about prioritizing tasks. Here are some thoughts on how to get started.…
Western society has become consumed with being busy. Most of us feel guilty if we’re not always on the go. The challenge is that busy doesn’t necessarily make you money, nor does it mean you get more done. The real question is not how busy are you, it’s how productive are you?
The first step toward becoming more productive is gaining clarity on what it is you need to accomplish. Once you are clear on your tasks, the next step is to prioritize them. Steven Covey popularized a system for prioritizing tasks. He divided them into quadrants:
1. Important and urgent [i.e.:…
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Those of us in western civilization have become consumed with being busy. When it comes to busy vs productive we realize that busy doesn’t pay the bills. Here are some thoughts of how to turn busy into productive.…
On the last blog, I discussed the Pareto Principle, suggesting that 20% of your time accounts for 80% of your productivity. Today, I want to talk about ways to get more productive utilizing technology that most of us already own: smartphones and tablets. We will focus on using apps to increase productivity.
For iPhone users, the Reminders App, which is already on your iPhone when you buy it, is the single greatest smartphone tool for getting things done. It’s a simple to-do list with the ability to remind you of deadlines, set alarms, and prioritize your tasks. If you are behind the wheel, you can even use Siri to verbally input items.…
In 1906 Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto created the 80/20 Rule after observing that twenty percent of the people owned eighty percent of the land in Italy. Today we refer to it as the Pareto Principle. In the corporate world, regardless of your industry, 20 percent of the customers account for 80 percent of the business and 20 percent of your time accounts for 80 percent of your productivity.
Recently author Perry Marshall suggested that the Pareto Principle is actually exponential. If you take the initial 20 percent and use the 80/20 rule it works again; meaning the 20 percent of the 20 percent which amounts to 4 percent represents 80 percent of the 80 percent which works out to 64 percent.…
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