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Stay on Track for Productivity

Success

You can mark these blocks on your email calendar—Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar, for instance—so it sends you reminders to stop and start. Check that Facebook page, start following a couple of interesting threads and BOOM! This article was published in May 2013 and has been updated. Sidestep time traps.

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How to Create a New Client System in 5 Steps

Office Organization Success

>> Strategy sessions (on your calendar every week). >> Instead they will kid themselves that it’s more important that they [update their website / connect on Facebook / fill-in-the-blank here] rather than ASK a client to have a strategy session with them. c) 2013 Tracey Lawton.

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Why you secretly want the apocalypse to happen

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

Business owners get sucked into the idea that the calendar will tick over and suddenly… something will happen. Have you caught yourself dreaming about how 2013 “will be different”? We want to indulge ourselves with fantasies about how amazing our 2013 will be. Go check your Facebook feed.

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Coming Christmas Day: The Front Nine

Productivityist

After all, even though the book discusses how you can start the new year anytime you want, the beginning of the calendar year is a great time to remind people of that. Featuring a foreword by Cal Newport (author of So Good They Can’t Ignore You ), the e-book is now available for pre-order through the iBooks Store for just $4.99.

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2012: My Year in Review

Productivityist

I will think about quitting Facebook thirty-eight times, but will not actually pull the trigger. I bought some nice bourbons and whiskeys this calendar year, and made sure I followed through on this in other areas as well. I got better with this in 2012, but I can do much better in 2013 and beyond. How did 2012 treat you?

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Getting Into Drafts and Launch Center Pro

Productivityist

By keeping the ones I use ( Tweetbot , Riposte , Facebook, Google+, Path, etc.) In my case, that meant removing/deactivating all social networking, communication, and calendar-type apps. Dispatch is my email app of choice and Messages works just fine for those purposes and I don''t use Drafts for calendar entry.