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7 Steps for Turning Inefficiency into Goal Achievement
I’ve been wanting to write this for a while now because I began taking note of something interesting about myself this summer. It seems that I and many others have a bit of trouble focusing and being productive during the hot summer months or what is known as the summer doldrums. This is not merely a summer phenomenon. Many times during the year I am my own worst enemy when it comes to accomplishing what I’ve set out to do because I get sidetracked easily and I enjoy being engrossed in busy-ness of working in my business that I often forget to work on my business. I am speaking of my particular case and business goals but you can apply this to any goals or aspirations in your life.
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August 20th, 2010 / 
Productivity
5 Tips to Improve Your Memory
Guest Post by Louise Baker
We live in an increasingly complex world. Every day, it seems we are asked to remember more things – passcodes for various accounts, anniversaries and birthdays, tasks to complete, and more. While organizational tools such as day planners and PDAs can help keep track of it all, it is still important to remember much of this information. If you struggle with data recollection, you may feel like you can’t do anything to improve your situation. You may think that you were born with a bad memory, and that you are stuck with it. Fortunately, that is not the case. Memory is just like any other thinking skill – there are things that you can do to improve you ability to remember things. Below are five simple tips that you can use to improve your memory. Read the rest of this entry
15 Comments / June 30th, 2010 / Productivity
Creativity 101: Making Ideas Happen
“The truth is, creativity isn’t about wild talent as much as it’s about productivity. To find a few ideas that work, you need to try a lot that don’t. It’s a numbers game.” – Robert Sutton
Do you ever wonder what makes a person creative? Have you ever thought about what it takes to make great ideas a reality? For the past few years I’ve been fascinated with what makes the most effective companies and people of our day successful.
22 Comments / May 7th, 2010 / Productivity
Celebrate Your Success
I recently received an email from one of our readers. The email went on to list an admittedly impressive number of goals he was able to accomplish over the last year or so. He received a 4.0 GPA in his first semester of college, lost 14 kg, began running 3 days a week, and cut down on his excessive gaming. Because I’m also freshman in college this year, the list made me smile and I couldn’t help but feel great for him.
But there was one problem: Despite his impressive accomplishments, the tone of his email was somber and sad, because like many, he wrestled with the endless cycle with self improvement. Even though he reached all his goals he was empty on the inside.
59 Comments / February 5th, 2010 / Productivity
5 Things I’ve Learned On My 6-Week Challenge
As many of you know, just over four weeks ago I started a six week challenge. My challenge came about when I found that my productivity had dramatically dropped and I wanted to try cutting out the distractions from my life. Those ‘distractions’ ended up being Instant Messaging, Facebook, Alcohol, Television and Internet gaming.
Although I’m still on the challenge, I feel that I’m far enough along to have learned some lessons about myself and I’ve been through enough to see if this type of challenge is going to help me in the future. To cut a long story short, I don’t recommend this challenge to anyone (even if you’re trying to be productive).
34 Comments / November 4th, 2009 / Productivity
Back to Basics: I’m Now Using Timetables
When I’m finished with this post, it will be the third article written today and right now it’s only 1:30pm. I honestly can’t remember a day when I’ve wrote as many quality articles in such a short amount of time. There are three things that I can attribute to my productivity today.
The first is that I’m using an awesome Mac application called Self Control (more on that later) and the second is that I’m not longer being pestered by Diggy on Skype (it’s actually the other way around). The third reason, and the most important, is that I actually set myself a timetable for today.
61 Comments / October 27th, 2009 / Productivity
How to Get Passionate About Boring Tasks
I recently opened up to you guys and allowed you to ask me anything you want. This wasn’t some ego trip so that I could claim guru status, but I noticed that the majority of times people emailed me, they apologised in advance for ‘wasting my time’.
Therefore, I wanted to make it clear that people shouldn’t feel bad for asking me questions, and the post was a chance for people to do so. One thing that surprised me was the number of comments and emails I received about how to enjoy things that you don’t. How to get through a chore you hate but have no choice but to carry on doing.
46 Comments / October 21st, 2009 / Productivity
Breaking Free: Challenge Update #1
I’m currently on day 8 of my challenge to remove all of the restraints and time wasters in my life (television, IM, idle web surfing, alcohol etc) and I have to say, things are going very well. I’m finally happy with what I’m managing to get done each day and my productivity is through the roof.
I actually can’t believe it has been over a week already. It seems only yesterday that I wrote the original blog post. If the following five weeks go this fast, this challenge could turn out to be a lot easier than I expected.
59 Comments / October 2nd, 2009 / PluginID, Productivity
How to Make Goal Achievement 100x Easier
Without a doubt, the biggest goal I have achieved so far in life was quitting my day job. Leaving the rat race is not easy, especially in this economy, and I’m proud of my achievements. Now that I’ve ‘made it’ in this area though, I’m not staying stagnant. I have income goals, subscriber goals and goals not related to my business.
First of all, I’m pushing myself to learn a new language in as little as three months. Secondly, I follow a strict training regime in my quest to get big and muscly. These are two goals which aren’t achievable overnight, and will take both hard work and dedication to get the results I want.
55 Comments / September 16th, 2009 / Productivity
Why Last Month Was The Most Productive Of My Life
A few months ago, I realised my productivity had taken a turn for the worst. I had just came out of a long stint which involved working 7 days per week in order to stabilise my online income and once my goal was achieved, things started to go downhill. I think my lack of action came as some sort of rebound affect to the immensely long hours I had previously been putting in.
My turning point came one evening when I set myself a very simple task. My task was to note down every single productive action I had taken that that day. Of course, it didn’t include eating food and chatting to friends, but things like writing blog posts, sending emails, and that kind of thing.
65 Comments / July 6th, 2009 / Productivity
