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There are a million and one demands on your time and, whether or not those demands are legitimate, it’s hard to carve out the time necessary to take care of your responsibilities. You have to be ruthless with your time —
Faffing - The art of doing something without achieving anything” Faffing affects all of us, in all areas of life and it means doing something without achieving an outcome. It affects business, personal life, writing, int
There’s a metaphor many of use on a daily basis that compares our brain to a car or a bicycle with gears. I need to shift gears or my head’s in the wrong gear for this indicates that the human brain, for the sake of effi
Recently, we asked the readers what their tips for staying creative were. Sometimes creativity flows from the heavens, but other times, as we all know, it’s like drawing water from a stone. The following are the best tip
One of the most difficult demands that David Allen's Getting Things Done makes on followers of his system is to set aside a couple of hours a week for a weekly review. It's hard enough to find the single block of uninter
What would an ideal workday look like? While there might not be a single answer across the board, all of us can relate to the fact that many of our workdays are not designed for optimal productivity. We complain about to
Last week I started working on my new job as a lecturer. The job is pretty flexible, but it takes quite a lot of time for preparation, especially because I'm relatively new to some subjects. Since I'm still adapting to t
Time wasters and procrastination may be affecting your productivity. Here are some rituals to help you conquer procrastination.
Productivity is one thing that we all strive to be excellent at. Although we all have different ways of being productive, sometimes the simplest things can make us more productive than ever. Here are 50 simple ways (that
Following the herd is a sure way to mediocrity. Patti Wilson I don't know about you, but one of the things I'm afraid most in life is mediocrity. For me, life is too precious to be lived in mediocrity. Life is a golden o
As both a teacher and an office supply junkie, I always have plenty of dry-erase markers handy. Which is a good thing, because I use them all the time -- usually without a white board anywhere in sight. Here's just some
I love index cards. I'd like to blame Merlin Mann and his hipster PDA for this obsession, but I don't use a hipster PDA and still I find myself unable to pass the index card rack at Office Depot without stopping for a lo
I'm not a big fan of mind mapping, though I concede that it does have its uses. Recently, I learned of a different approach to brainstorming that seems both more practical and better grounded in the way the mind works th
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 bette
Gideon at Scholastici.us had some advice for students recently, saying that when it comes to scholarly reading, there really is no substitute for hard work, for actually sitting down and reading . Most the time in school
