Category: Productivity
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Resisting Remote Work?
Do you resist or reject remote work? Are you a leader or supervisor who insists on having all staff in the office, adhering to strict inflexible office hours every day? Requiring butts in the seat so you can keep an eye on them? Why? Do you think your co-workers are inherently lazy? Won’t be as…
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Are you busy?
I’m up to my eyeballs with work. I’ve got too many irons in the fire. I’m trying to stop all these plates from spinning out of control. My plate is full. I’m overloaded. When you hear or read these phrases, do they conjure up in your mind thoughts of peace, calm, a balanced schedule, life,…
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Goals or Objectives?
Goals, objectives, are they one in the same? I think there are some distinctions between the two. Objectives may have a goal component to them, but objectives are efforts or actions intended to attain or accomplish a purpose, while goals focus more on a certain result. For instance, a goal could be to lose 30…
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Is it about Process or Habit? Yes!
In both my personal and professional life, I am a process person. I am a creature of habit and get the “hives” or break out into a cold sweat when things are chaotic, cluttered, or out of order. Now, making sure all the screws on light switches and electrical outlets in my house are facing…
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Simply Simplify
The word simplify means to make something less complex or complicated, plainer and easier. You may have heard the story that during the height of the space race in the 1960s, The U.S. spent millions to create a pen that would write in space while the Russians simply used a pencil. It’s a great story,…
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AI ChatGPT … aye yai yai!
There is no question that AI and ChatGPT is one of the most powerful and disruptive technologies to come on the scene. AI is already having and will continue to have a powerful impact on our world for many years to come. AI is being met with much anticipation, but also with anxiety and a…
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Nomophobia…That’s how bad it’s gotten!
2 hours and 54 minutes. That’s the average time Americans spend on their phones each day. In 2022 we will spend nearly a month and a half, that’s 44 days on our phones! 47% of users admit they are addicted to their phones. I’m a sucker for gadgets and when mobile phones came on to…
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Edit and Eliminate
Whenever, I write a blog post there are always more words than what makes it into the final version. I must be relentless to edit and eliminate much of what I write to stay within my desired word count, but more importantly to focus on and fine tune what I want to communicate. When filming…
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Transitioning from email to more focus time
In a previous post I asked, “Is email eating your lunch?” today I want to share how I transitioned from email to more focus time and greater productivity. I work for an organization that relies on and uses email extensively. So, when I decided to change how I engaged with email I had to be…
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Is email “eating your lunch?”
Remember that iconic voice from AOL that came on the scene in 1989? “You’ve got Mail.” People would rush to their computers, eager and excited to find out who was sending them a message. Thirty plus years later the average worker checks their email 11 times an hour. One 2019 study estimates the average worker…
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