Posts Tagged ‘energy’

The Power of Ritual: Conquer Procrastination, Time Wasters and Laziness

Life is wasted in the in-between times. The time between when your alarm first rings and when you finally decide to get out of bed. The time between when you sit at your desk and when productive work begins. The time between making a decision and doing something about it. Slowly your day is whittled away from all the unused in-between moments.

The solution to reclaim… » Continue

January 22 2008 | By Scott H | Tagged: energy, habits, procrastination, Productivity, ritual, time | 28 comments»

20 Foods To Snack On For Enhanced Productivity

(photo from here)

Most people eat to lose weight, get healthy and build muscle. There are some people, however, who snack correctly in order to enhance their productivity. The following is a list of 20 foods you can eat to improve your eye-sight, improve your performance, energize your brain and keep your day on track.

Avocados. These keep you from bloating up after a big lunch and are

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January 22 2008 | By Kavit | Tagged: energy, exercise, foods, health, Lifestyle, Productivity | 69 comments»

Top 5 Ways to Double your Energy (Without Caffeine!)

It’s one of the most common complaints on the planet and it comes in many forms:

“I just sat down, you get up.”
“I’m too tired, too achey, too frazzled.”
“Can’t a person have 5-minutes to just chill out?”
“I’m burned out.”
“I’m feeling a little… run-down, weak, lazy”

While there may be other contributing factors…
Lack of energy plays a pretty major role in all these excuses.
Over the last ten years, motivated largely by the… » Continue

January 18 2008 | By Jonathan | Tagged: energy, exercise, health, meditation | 32 comments»

What You Didn’t Know About the World’s Top Three Productivity-Enhancing Drugs

There are things people consume to stay awake longer, become more energetic or somehow increase productivity in other ways. They are usually things that people enjoy consuming – often in large volumes. Coffee, Coca-Cola (and other caffeinated soft drinks), and tea are the global big three productivity-enhancing drugs of choice. Most users think they are such great products that they can’t get through the day without. We suggest that… » Continue

January 8 2008 | By Tatsuya | Tagged: caffeine, drugs, energy, fitness, health, Productivity | 37 comments»

8 Tips to Create a Day to Recharge Your Motivation

It’s easy to recognize when you’re physically tired. You haven’t slept normally in days or even weeks. You can’t remember the last time you saw the inside of a gym. And enough caffeine is racing through your bloodstream to keep a small elephant alert.

When your motivation is down, the effects can be worse than physical tiredness. You can’t concentrate, you procrastinate and become as lazy as… » Continue

December 13 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: audiotapes, depression, disappointment, drive, energy, enthusiasm, motivation, Productivity, rest | 7 comments»

11 Tips for Nuking Laziness Without Becoming a Workaholic

Rest is important for productivity. Trying to work straight without recovering your energies leads to a wandering attention, procrastination and, in extreme cases, death. But when does “recovering your energies” just become an excuse to waste time? How do you draw the line between constructive rest and laziness?

I don’t believe this question has an easy answer. The most productive people I know have a… » Continue

December 11 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: energy, lazy, Management, procrastination, Productivity, recovery, rest, time | 29 comments»

The Top 4 Misapplications of the 80/20 Rule

Eighty percent of the output comes from twenty percent of the input. That is basically a summary of the Pareto Principle, or as it is more commonly known, the 80/20 Rule. The rule comes from Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist who noticed that 80% of Italy’s wealth was in the hands of 20% of the population.

The 80/20 Rule points out the imbalance of effects. Just as… » Continue

December 6 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: 80/20, 80/20-rule, effective, efficient, energy, Lifehack, Management, pareto, Productivity, time | 28 comments»

15 Tips to Restart the Exercise Habit (and How to Keep It)

It’s okay, you can finally admit it. It’s been two months since you’ve seen the inside of the gym. Getting sick, family crisis, overtime at work and school papers that needed to get finished all kept you for exercising. Now, the question is: how do you start again?

Once you have an exercise habit, it becomes automatic. You just go to the gym, there is

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November 6 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: diet, energy, exercise, fitness, health, life | 76 comments»

Getting Rid of Yesterday: How to Start Your Day Fresh

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sometimes we start a day with the previous day still in mind. We think about the mistakes we made in the previous day, how things went wrong, and how we felt bad about it. No wonder it becomes difficult to focus on the current day. And since we cannot fully focus on the day… » Continue

October 30 2007 | By Donald | Tagged: attitude, effectiveness, energy, focus, happiness, life | 18 comments»

6 Rules to Work Less and Get More Accomplished

It’s impossible, right? In order to get more done, you need to invest more time. Working ten hour days will make you more accomplished than a colleague that only works seven. Studying three hours a day will get you better grades than the guy who skims through a few chapters before the test. More work = more results.

I disagree. Working smart beats working hard… » Continue

October 23 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: 80/20, 80/20-rule, energy, energy-management, goals, pareto, parkinsons, perfectionism, Productivity, time-management | 45 comments»

13 Tips to Actually Enjoy Exercising

Is staying in shape always something that gets bumped to the bottom of your list? I know many people that complain about not having enough time to exercise. I think they are lying to themselves. The real problem is that they hate exercising, so it will never be a priority.

I used to hate exercising too. Going to the gym, running and most forms of physical… » Continue

October 18 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: diet, energy, exercise, fitness, health | 33 comments»

The 7 Energy Sinkholes (and How to Avoid Them)

Energy sinkholes are situations that repeatedly drain your energy and stress you out. There are plenty of good reasons to invest your energy, so don’t waste your attention on a sinkhole. Unfortunately, it is often hard to see sinkholes since they rarely cause a drain all at once. Instead they slowly leech away at your lifeforce until your stressed, depressed and apathetic.

The best way to get… » Continue

October 11 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: Communication, energy, gtd, procrastination, Productivity, relationships, tasks, time, to-do, work | 45 comments»

15 Tips for Surviving a Task Explosion

A task explosion happens when you are suddenly faced with more tasks than you are used to. I’ve faced many times where you suddenly need to handle twice as much work, with twice the pressure. Stress levels rise, and you might feel about ready to snap.

I’ve prepared a survival list of things to do when you get caught in the middle of a task explosion. Hopefully… » Continue

October 4 2007 | By Scott H | Tagged: energy, gtd, procrastination, Productivity, tasks, time, to-do, work | 20 comments»

Managing The 4 Dimensions Of Energy

Can you name four different facets of energy that will get you through your work day? Do you know how you can better manage that energy so you work, and play, better?

President and founder of The Energy Project in New York and a co-author of The Power of Full Engagement Tony Schwartz says the key to productivity is managing your energy, not your time.

The first level is physical. That’s… » Continue

October 2 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: energy, workplace | 2 comments»

How To Manage Your Mental Energy

Let’s face it, we can’t always be focused, working dogs all day and every day. What helps is knowing when our energy levels are high and when they aren’t and how to better spend the energy you have.

Spend your energy on the right things (for you) in the right way (for you) and end up with even more energy to do the things you love to do! It’s an… » Continue

September 25 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: energy | 4 comments»

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