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How To Banish Procrastination Once And For All

Allwork

Surrounding yourself with others hard at work creates the right conditions for focus, reducing the inclination to check emails and go on social media. Surrounding yourself with others hard at work creates the right conditions for focus, reducing the inclination to check emails and go on social media.

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The Cognitive Scientist’s Handbook to Working an Optimal Day

Success

One of ECHO’s most popular workshops is called Optimal Day. Instead of checking your email or Instagram the moment you wake up, fall into a productive morning routine that helps set the tone for a productive day. Think about what that routine looks like for you,” she says. And the cap for deep work each day is about four hours.

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Mad Productivity: Driving the Work so that it Doesn't Drive me Crazy

Virtual Moxie

I keep my email inbox empty and I never answer the phone unless I''m expecting a call. I don''t take or make calls outside those hours, and most of the time, I don''t answer email, either (see 1c for the exception to the email rule). I don''t attend/give teleclasses or workshops outside those hours. I keep my inbox empty.

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Why You Need to Get to Know Tags

Productivityist

With Evernote and several email apps also using tags extensively, those who''ve spent some time using apps that incorporate tags have had the ability to use them in a way that makes their workflow more efficient and effective. I''m also going to talk a great deal about tagging during my upcoming three-day workshop for creativeLIVE.

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It's Time to Kickstart the Year.Now!

Productivityist

The Ready Retreat Series digital workbooks focus on four different areas of personal productivity: task management, email management, idea management, and time management. The entire library of workbooks is valued at $20, and I’m stoked to be unveiling them as part of Kickstart the Year.

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Assessing Projects

Productivityist

Workshops, more books, and so on are ideas that have come to mind and I''d like to get them started sooner rather than later. 1 I have yet to create a project called "New Home Office" in OmniFocus because it''s still too far away to be in any category other than Pause. An Array of Products. Next up: Assessing Workflow.

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The 7 Links Challenge

Brilliantly Better

I read many more articles by Steve since then and I also attended his first workshop in Vegas, October 2009. Choosing A Printer For Your Home Office Use Reply 15 Ramblings of a Woman July 25, 2010 at 11:45 pm I decided to blog about this, and then turn it into a meme for encouraging links this week. Thanks for the idea!

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