The last two months of the year are about to begin. Our minds think this means we have eight more weeks to finish the year strong. Not exactly. Take into consideration family, friends and business functions that will be taking place in November and December. Add in some potential travel involved and realistically there’s six weeks remaining. You may even have a few days set aside for vacation. Now with your calendar nearby and a plan, you will be able to get more productive days out of … [Read more...]
How Do You Complete Each Day?
This is part two of a two part article on you having a productive day. If you missed part one, read it here. We all want each of our days to be productive days don’t we? So how do we complete each day? It’s going to summarize everything we accomplished today and prepare us for our day tomorrow. Take a moment and write out the various things you typically do currently for your end of day routine. Let’s look these items over. Did these review how you made out today with your … [Read more...]
How Do You Start Out Each Day?
This is part one of a two part article on you having a productive day. We all want our days to be productive days don’t we? So how do we start out each day? It’s going to set the tone for the rest of the day. Take a moment and write out the various things you do at the start of each day? If you have a to-do list for the day, or the week, and there are a few items that you would rate as difficult to do, or need some time to do, or you have been putting off doing them... these exact … [Read more...]
A Four Day Work Week – Really?
A four day work week is suddenly a hot topic – really? Covid-19 happened and it wasn’t fun for anyone. People who were able to keep a job and were able to work remotely did exactly that. Others who were on the front lines and are critical workers performed miracles throughout. In fact, many still do, every single day. Meanwhile there’s a wake up call especially in larger companies and especially in tech. This week Mark Zuckerberg actually sounded like a really seasoned CEO who wants a … [Read more...]
Does Time Influence Behavior?
Do you find that time influences your behavior? For example - How long would you wait for someone meeting you for a lunch or a dinner gathering at a restaurant? There’s no response back from your text. Not even the third one. Your voicemail messages were never returned. They had confirmed that morning – everything was on – all set to meet and looking forward to it. What is happening inside of you as five minutes goes to ten minutes, then to fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty and … [Read more...]
Would You Like To Improve Productivity?
It might be your own productivity. Improve the productivity of your employees or co-workers. Potentially improve the productivity of your teammates. The question one might ask is how? How do we actually improve productivity? One of the common topics that surface when this improve on productivity subject is brought up is ‘the internet’. This is the catch all for the use of social media and everything online while at work. An often taken approach which resolves nothing is to ban the use of … [Read more...]
