Planning
Make sense of your to-do list – Part 2
Your to-do list can quickly become overwhelming. Here are a few more ways to help you keep control of your list. Apply the 80/20 rule You’ll get 80% of your results from 20% of your activity. Remember this when prioritising your list. How will this task contribute to your end goal? Use an App There…
Read MoreMake sense of your to-do list – Part 1
You’ve got 50+ things on your to-do list. You’re feeling totally overwhelmed and don’t know where to start or how on earth you’re going to get everything done. You’re too busy to write a list. It’ll take too much time, you’d rather just get on with it. You could spend all your day planning instead of ‘doing’.…
Read MoreHow to Survive Christmas
Christmas can be stressful – particularly with all the added pressure that gets piled on at this time of year. You’ve fought your way through the crowds of Christmas shoppers to grab the best bargains and stressed over the size of the gifts and whether you have enough. Families who rarely speak to each other…
Read MoreStart Your Day With A Morning Routine
Whether it’s a daily ritual of your morning tea or coffee, reading the papers, meditation or a morning run, how you start your day is important. A good morning routine will help you to be more organised, more productive and more focused for the rest of the day. Here are a few ideas to get…
Read More7 Ways to Create Resolutions and Habits for the Year
So how are your New Year Resolutions going? We’re three weeks in to the year and no doubt, like many other people you’ve started the year with good intentions. Perhaps you’re going for a dry January and giving up alcohol or you want to kick start your health by joining the gym, giving up smoking…
Read MoreIs your to-do list full of projects?
Many people add tasks to their daily and weekly to-do lists which are actually a major project in themselves. For example: Complete report … Arrange meeting/event … Create system/process … In reality, they’re not one task but a series tasks that need to be completed. This is one of the reasons those particular items often…
Read MoreThe More Time You Have, The Less You Do
There are many reasons why we procrastinate and it’s not always due to fear, laziness or having too much time. Some people work better when there’s the pressure of a deadline to meet – even though meeting that deadline puts them under enormous stress and they end up working long hours to meet it. If…
Read MoreAnd now it’s Wimbledon
I might not have been glued to the World Cup but now Wimbledon is on – I have something to watch. There’s potentially more of an impact to office productivity, because the games are on during the working day. Here’s how I organise my time when I can, so that I can watch a few…
Read MoreHow To Double Your Hours
If you could increase the number of hours, you could increase your productivity. You’re workload is limited by the amount of hours you have available. One hour of your effort achieves one hour of results. Delegate a task and one hour of effort can achieve several hours of results. You have your own skills and abilities…
Read MoreThe simplicity of pen and paper
There are any number of apps available that promise to organise your to-do list, capture notes, help you to be more productive, plan your day … While technology is great, it can tie us down or even make us less productive, as you spend time attempting to get the latest app to sync with the…
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