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Breaking Down Procrastination Habits
Productivity Ninja tactics and Time Management Training will help you reduce the amount of time spent procrastinating in the dark corners of the internet, but fact is: Some of us are more prone to procrastination than others, and we should acknowledge that this is just part of what makes us human. However much we’d like them…
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How I Stay Productive: Jack Wratten
Tech-savvy Productivity Ninja in training, Jack, shares his top productivity tips with us in this month’s ‘How I Stay Productive’ series. If any of the below Productivity Ninja Characteristics sound intriguing to you, make sure you check out our Time Management Training. Profile Occupation: Director of EIE.London and bloom.space Company: bloom.space Location: Bloomsbury What’s important about…
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Why Do Knowledge Professionals Obsessively Check Their Inboxes?
If I have to make a rudimentary estimation about the amount of times an average knowledge professional checks/refreshes their email inbox, I would say it’s more than 30 times during a workday. Research actually shows that it can be anywhere between 70 and 350 times a day. By thinking about this rationally (we are knowledge professionals…
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How to Use Airmail Like a Productivity Ninja
Airmail is an email application on both MacOS and iOS. It’s a popular alternative to the stock Mail offering on both platforms, mainly owing to it’s highly customizable nature and gorgeous aesthetics. (It’s no secret that the native applications are somewhat dull to look at!) Here, I’d just like to cover my five top tips for…
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Do Your Emails Result in People Doing Things? SADS Emails Are The Answer!
We are sure that there are some people who you email and you have a 50/50 chance or expectation that they will respond or carry out an action. That is partly about how they manage themselves and their email etiquette. What you write can make a difference to how an action is taken, or not,…
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Ways to Start Your Day (Without Checking Your Emails)
It’s another Monday. You boot up your computer, sip your coffee, and mentally prepare to dive head first into the day’s work. But first, the most dreaded task of all: emails. You may feel a sense of urgency to do it, but you know it’ll throw off your flow in the morning. Plus, the internet is…
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Getting Your Inbox BACK to Zero
If you have attended one of our Time Management Workshops or Email Training sessions, you have most definitely managed to get your inbox down to zero and are proudly carrying the title of Inbox Zero Hero. But even the most skilled Productivity Ninja is still human and not a superhero and therefore it’s more than…
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Best and Worst Ways to End an Email
Knowing when and how to respond to emails can be a real challenge at times. On top of that, people can’t see your expression or hear your tone of voice, so you have to be especially careful with what you write. The last thing you want to do is wind up seeming unprofessional at work.…
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5 Email Customization Tips for Productivity Ninja Outlook Users
Among the classic Microsoft Office products, Outlook stands out as being the most customizable one. Many websites will explain to you “how to create a rule” or a “search folder” or “quick step”, but knowing how to set one up isn’t going to make you a Productivity Ninja. The key is knowing which ones will save…
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Mental Health at the Workplace with Sam Jones
Research shows that 1 in 6.8 people are experiencing mental health problems in the workplace and evidence suggests that 12.7% of all sickness absence days in the UK can be attributed to mental health conditions. Although there is an obvious need for better mental health support in the workplace, most people still don’t feel confident to…
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5 Tips to Minimize Mistakes and Reduce Stress
It’s a never-ending cycle: You’re stressed out, so you make mistakes. Then, the mistake causes you more stress, which leads you to make another careless error. Try as you might to break out of the rut, you can’t — and you’re not alone. In 2015, the American Psychological Association’s annual Stress in America survey revealed more…
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Burnout Uncovered: What You Should Know
Dealing with stress at work is something everyone has to learn to live with, no matter what kind of job you have and no matter how many time management workshops you’ve attended. It also comes in waves — just when you think life is getting easier and your stress more manageable, something comes up and…
