Tag: time management
Monotasking: Focus on One Thing at a Time
No matter how much you have piled up on your desk, and regardless of how bad-ass a multitasker you are, you can only do one thing at a time. Remembering this is one sure-fire way to increase your productivity, ease your mental load and knock things off your to-do listRead More
Productive Working Hours: What Are Your Best Work Times?
Although most offices operate on 9 to 5 (or 8 to 6) working hours, not all workers work best on this timetable. Night owl workers prefer to burn the midnight oil, working late into the night when there are no distracting coworkers and their brain is at its sharpest. I,Read More
Productivity Web Apps Bundle on the Cheap
The popular lifehacking site, the aptly-named Lifehacker, delivered some fantastic news today that we just had to share! The website AppSumo is offering a bundle of the professional level of web-based productivity apps such as Evernote, Remember The Milk and RescueTime (the last of which was used to calculate theRead More
Why You Shouldn’t Underpromise and Overdeliver
“Underpromise and overdeliver.” Have you ever heard this brief bit of business philosophy at work? It has to do with consciously managing the expectations of your clients and customers. The idea is that you set a comfortable scope and timeline for your service, and then “wow” them by delivering theRead More
Finalizing Your Fridays
The week is coming to a close…only a few hours left. You’re either madly rushing to get the things done you set out to do this week, or are in the midst of planning what you’d like to accomplish next week. (Or perhaps you’re doing both.) Not everyone finishes upRead More
Time-Saving Tips for Life Stuff
From reading the posts and comments throughout WorkAwesome, it seems that a common complaint of many of the writers and readers is a lack of time. Hopefully this is because you are too busy with work and raking in the financial benefits that come with this. Perhaps you’ve got aRead More
How to Find More Hours in the Day
We’ve all wished for more than 24 hours in a day, but short of developing the powers to bend the laws of space and time, that’s not going to happen. But one thing we can do is bend the ways we use the hours at our disposal. If you lookRead More
Keeping Track of Your Tech Devices
Yesterday I realized that I had 5 portable devices to recharge and a drawer of tangled cables from which to get each of the 5 recharge cables (each device has its own). My TV remote and cordless phone seemed to need new batteries and the hand held vacuum was outRead More