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I’m a couple of days into this first experiment. Here’s what I’ve done so far: – Switched my Outlook account to ‘offline’ – and kept it offline since new year’s day. – Created an ‘Out of Office’ message saying I’ll be back on Friday. This will remain in place now for a month! – […]
Read Graham’s introduction to his year of experimentation, here Welcome to my year of extreme productivity. Do you remember “No email fridays“? The idea that for just a day, we could stop checking, pick up the phone to each other, reduce unneccessary communication and, er, get some real work done? Well, my January is going to […]
Graham Allcott, from Think Productive UK explains his plans for 2013 – a year of productivity experimentation. Have you ever experimented with your productivity? Let us know in the comments Happy New Year. There’s a famous story of a boy who every day, walks home from school past a huge church wall, twice as tall […]
Our brains have evolved a lot since we were monkeys, but one thing has hardly changed: the lizard brain. A term popularised by Seth Godin in his brilliant book Linchpin, this part of our brain still remembers what it was like to need to survive, to blend in, to not […]
Attend our effective meetings training The unique facet of a meeting is that you have all the people that matter in a room together, and you can eyeball them. This means that you can really get a sense of the nuances, politics and potential commitment of all the key […]
You probably have a few items on your to-do list that have been hanging around for a few weeks or even months. These items are not pets. There are no prizes for keeping a long list. What is stopping you from actually making progress? Maybe it’s other higher priority work getting in the way? But […]
One of the worst things you can do is make yourself always available. It’s an invitation to some of your biggest enemies: distraction and interruption. Keep out of the limelight until you’ve got something you need others to hear. Avoid too much of the social chit chat and time-wastery that goes on in so many […]
I recently had a week off in Croatia. I try my best to make sure a week off actually means a week off and luckily, the wifi was so bad there, that our phones and iPads weren’t picking up all the emails coming in. So when I got home, refreshed from a great few days […]
How do you avoid being a zombie all morning then panicking in the afternoon wondering “where did the time go?” Here are some things that I’ve found work for me: