Category: Productivity
How to Improve Productivity Despite the Threats
As time becomes more and more scarce, learning how to improve productivity and stay on top of your work becomes essential in order to lead a balanced life. As we take on more responsibility at work and in our personal lives, we demand more from ourselves but we don’t seemRead More
How to Stay Alert & Refreshed: 6 Ways
We all know what it feels like to stay up too late and struggle to stay alert the next morning. Some common causes for tiredness in the workplace are keeping odd hours, a bad diet, too much or too little exercise, caffeine addiction, alcohol abuse and, poor sleeping patterns. ItRead More
How to Keep Motivated During the Dog Days of Work
It’s a story to which many people can probably relate: A few months after I started at a new job, the excitement of the new opportunity had begun to pass, I had finished my first few major projects, and the arrival of summer began to divert my attention elsewhere. Suddenly,Read More
Review: MindMaple — Generate Awesome Ideas with a Mind Map
For many, one of the most stressful things about work is just that—all the work. In such an up-and-down economy, businesses don’t always have the size of staff they need, so employees are forced to take on extra roles and juggle extra responsibilities. Even if your work is simple andRead More
Effects of Information Overload & How to Deal with it
You come into the office and have 30 emails waiting. Keeping your head above water is difficult, as it seems like the minute you answer one, you’ve got a dozen more waiting in its place. You attempt to clean your inbox every evening, only to arrive at the office with it filledRead More
Why You Should Throw Away Your To-Do List
I’ve never been good at to-do lists. For me, a to-do list is more a theoretical approach than an actual tool. No matter how many times I’ve tried to put a daily to-do list into practice, it never becomes routine. They’re too easy to ignore. They nag me only justRead More
10 Ways to Become Stressed Starting a Business
I quit my job in 2011 to build my own business. I was in for a bumpy ride – and I knew it. In an effort to obtain results at any cost, l adopted work habits that stressed me out and impacted my productivity. Thankfully, I have pruned every oneRead More
How to Work Better
Whether they are working in the same position for three months or five years, most people strive to know how to work better. Keeping your job is integral to the way you’ve built your lifestyle — without your weekly paycheck, you would never be able to make that car paymentRead More