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The Most Important Trait To Boost Your Productivity

Productivityist

To receive a free copy of the Career Advancement Toolkit, join the Project Management Hacks email newsletter. The key to advanced productivity lies in the power of learning. Back in 2011, I took the time to learn new techniques in Microsoft Excel through a course. The value of learning is very clear.

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How I Get My (Blog) Ideas

The Marq

You need to have a regular schedule that's non-negotiable and dedicated to this activity. During this time, I know I'm not doing anything else: no emails, texts, browsing (unless I'm researching), or phone calls. I have to at least bring back what I’m learning in each block of time and make some notes or actually write an article.

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How to Wrestle Deadlines and Win (Even When You Think You Can’t)

Men With Pens

Keep reading to learn how.). Your email inbox won’t implode, don’t worry. You have five days to finish an ebook of 20,000 words. Don’t leave it until the day of the deadline and then email to say you need more time. For example, say you can have 15,000 words of the ebook completed by Friday.

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77 Things I Did In 2010

Brilliantly Better

Wrote 4 Ebooks In One Month. But the whole process was fun and I learned a lot about how to measure your effort when starting such a task. I confess now that the game took only 15 hours of coding (including some learning of Lua). I used mainly to learn and test the AppStore submission process. In no particular order.

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How To Invest In Yourself (And Why)

Brilliantly Better

Maybe you think you’re a brilliant negotiator, but that may be just an inconsistent cloud in your ego. I learned tons of stuff about project management , programming, getting things done , negotiation, financial planning and a lot more. , but rather “where’s my opportunity spot?”. Facts analysis involves another person.

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The Subtle Comfort Of The Discomfort Zone

Brilliantly Better

Over the years I slowly learned the subtle science of feeling good in my discomfort zone. For that, I had to learn Objective C from scratch and implement myself all the functionality I needed. For instance, in my social life (again) every day spent at the office is a day of learning. We’re somehow friends. Well, I dont.

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How To Train Your Brain

Brilliantly Better

It also monitors your energy levels sending stimuli of hunger (that would be the equivalent of re-fueling the planes), it does long-term planning (equivalent of upgrading the equipments and planes) or makes estimations (learning by example, for instance, after a plane collision). Let’s start talking about the how. Well, I dont.