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How To Banish Procrastination Once And For All

Allwork

Tim Pychl, psychology professor and member of Procrastination Research Group at Carleton University, Ottawa, interprets procrastination as “an emotion regulation problem, not a time management problem,” associated with feelings of anxiety, unworthiness, and stress. The benefits of coworker accountability are tremendous.

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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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Why You Need to Get to Know Tags

Productivityist

Tags have long been used within apps -- especially task management applications like Asana -- to help with searching and to add context to action items. Keep in mind they can be used to identify items that are based on location (home, office, project) or for things as unconventional as energy levels, emotions, or days of the week.

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Creative Uses for 3M Post It Notes

Stephanie LH Calahan

In my Power Office! Workshop I introduce my custom-designed post-it pad to help people layer their decisions and easily activate their incoming and inactive paper piles. Whenever I need to create a new training workshop or a new talk, I use Post-its to help me generate an outline. A Low Tech Task Manager. Pile Pizzazz.

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Working From Home a Challenge

On The Job

But here is one thing I know for sure: As soon as my butt hits the chair in my home office, I will have visitors. But should I finally manage to contain the four-legged animals, the two-legged ones soon take up the challenge. For some reason, home offices often are an afterthought. It begins with breathing.

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How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work – A personal interview with Bonnie Low-Kramen by Karen Mangia for Thrive Global

Bonnie Low Kramen

She was also a gifted manager of people. Even if more robots and AI are being used in the workplace, humans are still needed to manage them. The biggest challenge will be to fully engage the at-home workers and the in-the-office workers, avoiding conflict between the two groups. She would say, “Find ways to tell me yes.

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Assessing Projects

Productivityist

Essentially, this project went from Pursue to Punt because I removed it completely from the task manager I use. I''ve spoken about my comedy background on several podcasts -- most recently The Better Guy Show -- and I still had a slew of them sitting in the Pause category in my task manager. Various Comedy/Fiction Projects.

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