Tag: Productivity
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Getting Back on Track After a Bad Month
This month at Think Productive we’ve been having open conversations about being Human, not Superhero, which is one of the theories in our Time Management Training workshops. We all have bad days, bad weeks, even bad months. Sometimes it can feel like everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Whether that’s in your personal…
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How to Make Time to Be More Productive
Our Time Management Training has helped thousands of people around the world to feel less stressed and more productive. However, it is often the case that people’s workloads are so relentless that it feels like there’s no time to stop and set up systems that will make life easier and work better. It’s not easy…
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How to Stay Calm Under Pressure
Four different project deadlines are approaching. You have eight urgent emails in your inbox. One manager is asking you in person why their project isn’t completed, while another is sending you a direct message online asking you to prioritize their task. Another co-worker asks over your shoulder if you want to go for a walk…
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Boost Your Brain Power
You might have heard of, or even tried, brain training apps or read self-help books that have claimed to enhance your thinking potential as well as teaching you aspects of time management training. You may have even seen movies like Equilibrium and wished there was a way to boost your brain, so it uses its…
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What Can We Learn From Unorthodox People?
At Think Productive, we like to incorporate a certain amount of ‘unorthodoxy’ into everything we do – from the way our team works, the way we interact with our followers and clients, right down to our time management training. We do that because to us, what really matters is the result – creating a community…
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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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Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time
If there is one ultimate truth in life, it is that time will go on, and the clock will continue to tick. Our world is very reliant on time. We schedule our day around our timed activities. We plan dates with friends and loved ones, go to bed at a certain hour, and measure our…
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How to Make Yourself Work When You Don’t Want to
There are times where the idea of work can send shivers down your spine. You’re not in the mood, you’re not prepared mentally and essentially, you’d rather spend the day curled up in bed. Everyone has days on which they must force themselves into ‘work-mode’, despite the urge not to. If you have never had such…
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Agile Ways of Working
Agile methodologies are ideal for software development and IT projects, however they are also relevant in the field of management. These methods are taking root among developers, who are constantly being interrupted. The variety of tasks and having to deal with emergencies complicates the prioritization of their daily work. Management’s response is to strengthen the discipline…
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Failure Can Fuel Motivation
Failure is often interlinked with motivation. Although, the link drawn is usually a negative one, in which failure is perceived to lead to a decline in motivation, opposed to an increase. It can also be said that those who are highly motivated, experience failure more often as they are consistently testing their boundaries and trying…
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A Slice of Cake for Motivation?
Most of us enjoy to indulge a little when celebrating successes and offering a slice of cake to meeting attendees will definitely increase the turnout rate, but as Productivity Ninja teams, is an occasional slice of cake really the driver of our motivation? The answer is probably “not really”. The slice of cake in itself is…
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How Yoga Can Give You Energy and Motivation to be Super Productive
Perhaps one of the most powerful ways yoga helps to improve motivation is by quieting the voice in your mind that says “it’s not possible”. Being dragged down by your own harmful words causes self doubt which can lead to taking no action whatsoever. Even in the act of attempting challenging poses, you will realize…