Category: Productivity
5 Tips for Remembering and Organizing Ideas
If you are someone who never runs out of new ideas but has a hard time organizing ideas and keeping track of them, here are five quick tips to help you preserve those random ideas you seem to get every other day.
Productive Kitchen Gadgets #3: Immersion Hand Blender
Being productive in the kitchen is a priority in our household. The next productive kitchen gadget that I would like to feature is the immersion hand blender. How often have you had to quickly blend up something? I use this gadget for mixing up a quick smoothie or a proteinRead More
Busting Your Performance Bottlenecks at Work
As a boss, I sometimes have to listen to a member of my team explain why something went horribly wrong. As as a business owner, I also have to ease the concerns of clients who have been burned by vendors in the past. And as a human being, I hateRead More
Get-It-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More: Book Drops Tomorrow!
For those that like their productivity advice with a dash of humor on the side, Stever Robbins (best known as the Get-It-Done Guy) has been at it for years. Whether you regularly visit his site or listen to his brief – but informative – podcasts, he delivers the goods withRead More
How to Smash Your To Do List When You’re Your Own Boss
An insidious curse haunts all business owners and it doesn’t matter what business model they use or how large or small their company might be. The curse is freedom. You’d think freedom was a blessing, and it is. It’s the ultimate goal of the successful entrepreneur. They want to enjoyRead More
5 Resources for Crowdsourcing Creatives
If you’ve ever been the position of needing a logo, a brochure or even a name for your new product, you know the value of having a sharp, creative mind at your disposal. But what if you had thousands? By the same token, what if you’re the person who alwaysRead More
Do You Use a Virtual Assistant?
Recently, we suggested outsourcing chores to add time to our 24/7 work schedule. Doing a little research I came across the blog about the book The 4-Hour Workweek, which we recently reviewed, and an account by AJ Jacobs, editor-at-large at Esquire magazine, about his experience outsourcing his chores. He startedRead More
Will Gmail Priority Inbox Change How You Manage Email?
Gmail is rolling out Priority Inbox as a way to help manage email. It remembers which emails you tend to open and sorts new emails accordingly. Some regular Gmail users should have received the invitation to start using the new tool, while those who use Google Apps can get access toRead More