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Productivity

What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast

One of the big differences between the most successful people we’ve met and others is how they use their morning. Used well, the time before breakfast dramatically increases your productivity. *** Mornings are an under-utilized tool …

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Your Environment Shapes Your Decisions

When it comes to making decisions, your environment matters. Just as it’s hard to eat healthily if your kitchen is full of junk food, it’s hard to make good decisions when you’re too busy to think. Just as the kitchen …

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Much of What You’re Going to Do or Say Today is Not Essential

If you’re a modern knowledge worker, your typical day might look something like this: you go to work, read and reply to emails, attend meetings, grab a coffee, have lunch, attend more meetings, catch up on emails, and finally head …

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The Science of High Performance

Research shows that knowing what you want to accomplish is more important than performance … at least at the start. But once you know where you’re going, you can accelerate progress by religiously implementing these steps. 1. …

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The Most Productive Change You Can Make In Your Working Habits

In an increasingly interconnected world, finding focus and enabling time to do work is becoming harder and harder. Demands are outstripping our capacity at an alarming rate. It’s time to start thinking about how we work. Rather than …

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Master Productivity: The Proven Eisenhower Matrix Method

The Eisenhower Matrix is a powerful tool that helps you work on the most important thing and get more done. Let’s explore how it works so you can put it to use today. Dwight Eisenhower wasn’t only the 34th President of the …

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The Psychology Of The To-Do List

Ten years after David Allen’s bestselling productivity book Getting Things Done, scientific research caught up. We now know why the popular system is so effective. The key behind GTD is writing everything down and sorting it effectively. …

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The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time

Tony Schwartz, author of Be Excellent at Anything, remarks that the biggest cost to splitting our attention among various activities is to productivity. He offers some advice on getting back on track: do the most important thing first in …

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Increasing The Productivity of Computer Programmers and Engineers

If you want to make your computer programmers and engineers more effective give them “privacy, personal space, control over their physical environments, and freedom from interruption.” Via Susain Cain’s Quiet: The Power of …

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The Cognitive Consequences of Having Information at Our Fingertips

Many of us have constant access to information. We are so used to looking up the answer to any question immediately that it can feel like withdrawal when we have to wait. Of course, storing information outside of our brains is nothing new. …

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The Focus to Say No

The difference between average and exceptional results is found in the things you don’t do. Everyone can say yes to great opportunities, but only someone focused will say no to average opportunities. You can do anything, but you can’t …

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Multitasking: The Costs of Switching From One Task to Another

You may think that as you juggle emails, my-book, twitter, google, work, life, the phone and casual web surfing that you’re really doing all of that stuff at once, but what you’re really doing is quickly switching constantly …

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The High Cost of Distractions

We tend to think that other people get distracted but not us. We’re different. We’re better than average. We can do more than one thing at a time and still be amazing. Not so. The always-on world of 24/7 bits and bytes is …

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