You go to bed at night and set big plans to get up early the next morning and crush the day. Only when your alarm goes off, you press snooze each time. Or worse, you just turn your alarm off and sleep in for another hour or so. I’ve done this plenty of times so […]
If you want to be more organized and productive than you absolutely need to be — use a calendar. But let’s be honest here. Calendars, while essential and useful — aren’t exactly the most fun. You just add an event to your calendar and that’s it. How about some calendar planning tools? Fortunately, you can […]
Has anyone ever been excited about attending a sales meeting? Probably very few. Now try convincing your sales team to get pumped about an upcoming meeting during a pandemic. Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place. Thankfully, you can use the following hacks to ensure that your meetings will be fruitful […]
Ah, the corner office: your own private space to think and focus, free from those distracting ruffians you dealt with on your way up the corporate ladder. Not long ago, that was the dream of a middle manager. Here is how to optimize your productivity in an open office. The solo office is going the […]
With only so many hours in a day to get work done, running a successful, profitable business relies on staff members’ ability to focus on the tasks at hand. So it’s understandable that companies put policies in place to help workers stay productive. Here are four productivity-minded policies that do more harm than good. Some […]
As we’re all well aware, we’re living in strange times. As a result, our daily lives have become disrupted — including the routines that we’ve worked so hard to establish and maintain. That may not sound important with everything else going on. But, getting off track does have repercussions — namely negatively impacting your productivity, […]
As an entrepreneur, I’m always thinking about my business. Sometimes it’s just reflecting on what I’ve accomplished or the areas that need improvement. Usually, that’s not a problem. What is a dilemma, though, is allowing these thoughts to interfere with my personal life. One example would be — bringing stress home with me or not […]
There’s a reason the 9-5 job has lasted so long: It’s a standardized way to structure work, it keeps most workers in the same place at the same time, and it is easy to implement. Slowly but surely, that’s changing. Digital technologies have made it possible to conduct work without having everyone in the same […]
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation,” Will Durant, and not Aristotle, wrote in The Story of Philosophy in 1926. We “do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence — but rather we have these virtues because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by doing his actions; […]
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just wake-up and have a productive day without having a plan? It sounds liberating. But that’s just not how it works. I mean, it’s like building a house. You need a plan to determine the necessary materials if the foundation is sound, and the steps required to assemble […]
