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So you’ve just written a couple of ideas down for a book you are currently working on, an essay you’re writing, or even a report that is soon to be due? However, you have finally come to the conclusion that they are bad ideas and you must get rid of them, immediately. What if I…

This time last year, the Outreach team at Think Productive Headquarters launched the very first ‘Productivity Ninja’s Unorthodoxy Challenge’: thirty-one daily challenges throughout the month of July, aimed to help budding Productivity Ninjas inject a little unorthodoxy into their everyday lives, and inspire them to think outside of the box. We were overwhelmed by the…

How many of you log into your emails as soon as you get to work? Okay, once the kettle has boiled? For most of us, checking our emails is a habit of daily routine and something we have trained our brains to do before starting any other task. Why? It’s easy, doesn’t require much brain…

When it comes to email, weapon-savvy ninjas know that there are a ton of web tools available to help you get your email management system to operate in exactly the way you want it to. Whether you’re a lover of Gmail, or true to your Outlook account, we’re sharing some of our favorite email tools…

For most organisations, email is the most popular form of communication. We send and receive tens, sometimes hundreds, per day, and in most cases, the more we write, the less thought we give to what we are writing. We might be great communicators, but it’s possible that we don’t always come across how we think…

There’s no denying that we all love a holiday, what’s better than spending a couple of weeks sunbathing down the beach or exploring a new city? What we don’t love so much is that nag in the back of your brain that you’ve forgotten to do something important back at work and that you absolutely…

It is so easy for everyone to proclaim what one needs to do in order to attain success, but how many people in this world actually do the ‘doing’ more than the ‘saying’? We are all guilty of falling into the latter from time-to-time, continuously putting things off that we’ve said we would do yesterday,…

We all know the feeling: we get to work, turn on our computer, open up Outlook and… despair as we watch the emails flood in. It seems that much of our working life is now governed by our inbox – but it certainly does not have to be this way. Here are my top five…

It’s time to face the facts: email isn’t always the most effective, fast, and reliable form of communication. If your inbox becomes cluttered with menial updates that you’ve been CCd into, and important emails become lost in the mess, it might be time to consider your other options. Ultimately, it comes down to this: your…

Are you constantly faced with an endless invasion of emails piling up in your inbox? Does it ever get so out of hand, that you don’t even have the time to read through it – which potentially means you could be behind in receiving important information – or even missing out on them altogether?! Perhaps,…

Many people know the trap of “just quickly checking emails” to then find themselves 2 hours later still piling through, while they should have finished a different task in the meantime. A lot of people like to schedule times throughout the day during which they work through their emails. When using this method, however, it…

Following our post on our favorite tips and tricks for using Outlook, we thought we’d do the same for all of you Gmail users out there! 1. Undo send At one point or another, most of us will have accidentally hit the ‘send’ button before finishing composing an email, or will have noticed a typo…