Productivity

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7 Tips to Avoid Distraction and Prevent Interruption

Oh how easy it is to be distracted when you’re working from home. True, you don’t have your coworkers talking about last night’s Dancing with the Stars or showing you photos of their children. However, you do have other distractions, like last night’s Dancing with the Stars and your very own children. How do you [...]

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Chaos: Getting Productivity Back in Your Business

A lot of businesses fail for the simple reason that they have no clear direction. If you go to work and don’t have a plan for what you want to achieve, chaos is inevitable. This is how you end up simply answering hundreds emails or phone calls during an eight hour day, and not getting [...]

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4 Websites for More Effective Outsourcing

Building a sizable website takes a lot of time and energy. You can’t do everything yourself because there are only so many hours in the day. Outsourcing portions of your work can save you time and money and it can also help you focus on the parts of building a website or a business that [...]

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Taking Intelligent (and Calculated) Risks

Taking risks is part of life, and it’s hard to succeed without ever taking any form of risk. It’s been said that “many a false step was made by standing still.” The biggest risk of all may be not doing anything and settling for a comfortable and boring existence. You grow when you take intelligent [...]

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7 Tips to Avoid Distraction and Prevent Interruption

Oh how easy it is to be distracted when you’re working from home. True, you don’t have your coworkers talking about last night’s Dancing with the Stars or showing you photos of their children. However, you do have other distractions, like last night’s Dancing with the Stars and your very own children. How do you [...]

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How to Organize Your Desk in a Few Easy Steps

An un-organized desk can significantly impede your productivity. If you can’t find an important file or even find a space for your laptop, you will waste valuable time looking for the file or just clearing off space. Worse still, not being organized can be demoralizing and foster procrastination. Fortunately, organizing your desk is possible – [...]

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Change Your Schedule to Increase Productivity

Change Your Schedule to Increase Productivity

Accidents happen. The accidental things in life are sometimes the moments you should be paying the most attention to. I can tell you without hesitation that I am a night person. I love the late-night clickity clack on the keyboard as my mind races towards the next project. I love sleeping in until 8 or [...]

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Develop Better Social Media Habits

Develop Better Social Media Habits

Most of us spend too much unproductive time in front of social media during the day. Like Alec Baldwin’s alien character in the recent Hulu Super Bowl commercial says, “What are you going to do, turn off your TV and your computer? Ha!” It’s sadly true. Television is one of the most unproductive habits you [...]

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The Moleskine Volant Mini – Should You Be a Paper Person?

The Moleskine Volant Mini – Should You Be a Paper Person?

I love paper.  There’s something about the silky-smooth pages of a Moleskine notebook and a high-quality pen that give me a warm and fuzzy feeling.  The Moleskine Volant mini is a relatively new (re)addition to the popular family of notebooks, and well-worth a look. If you find yourself out and about and needing to make [...]

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If You are Unproductive, Stop Reading Mashable

If You are Unproductive, Stop Reading Mashable

Are you following me on Twitter? You might ask yourself how a guy who eats and sleeps everything web-related could say “stop reading Mashable” in the title of an article.  Mashable is actually one of my favorite sites and I think after you’re done with this post, you’ll simply read Mashable differently – not stop [...]

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