Time Management & Productivity Blog Posts

Using multiple email addresses

Why you need multiple domain email addresses

Use different domain email addresses to filter and sort your email. Info@ is always useful and acts as a default for your website. Most websites will let you create at ...
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Book Review on Mind Mapping

Book Review: Mind-mapping – Tony Buzan

One of the best tools I ever learned was mind-mapping.  Years ago I picked up a book by Tony Buzan and read about mind-mapping.  I've used it in my corporate ...
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Don't go over your meeting time

How to keep a meeting to time.

How often have you experienced this situation?  You've arranged a meeting for an hour and then the meeting somehow manages to run on for another half hour or sometimes longer. ...
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Quality or quantity when networking

Networking Tip #24 Quality or Quantity

There often seem to be two main debates on networking and your contact lists - the "Quality vs Quantity" debate and this applies to most of the main social media ...
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Do you feel lucky or unlucky?

Are you lucky or unlucky?

Watching Derren Brown's The Secret of Luck on TV at the weekend and a thought provoking programme about how essentially, we make our own luck. Full of Derren's usual mix ...
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Does networking actually work?

Networking Tips #36 Does it work?

I often get asked what I get from networking or if it really works. If you've read through the rest of the series of networking tips then you'll already know ...
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What to do when your cold calling is ineffective

Ineffective Cold Calling

Cold-calling - two words that fill most people with dread - either making those calls or being on the receiving end of them. Having just been on the receiving end ...
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Getting your to do list done

What are you putting off?

If you have a tendency to put things off or leave things to the last minute, don't worry - you're not alone. We all do it and for various reasons. ...
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How to listen at networking events

Networking Tips #35 Keep your eyes and ears open

You never know when you might see or hear a piece of information that might prove useful or open up an opportunity for you or someone you know. This is ...
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Dealing with deadlines

How to manage those last minute deadlines

Do you sometimes feel that your time management would be great – if only it wasn’t for everyone else? You’re working on improving your own productivity, you’ve changed some of ...
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