We are currently looking for an Official SelfGrowth.com Guide to "Productivity". If you have expertise in Productivity and your own website and/or product for this topic, please review this form for complete details. The Official Guide Position is part of our Premium Placement Package
Jugglers fascinate me. Not the run-of-mill, three-balls-in-the-air type, but the ones I call the Master Jugglers. I love the guys or gals who can toss torches, chainsaws, balls and small animals all at the same time. Well, maybe not the small animals part, but you get the point.
In a ... Views: 1301
What do piles of opened mail, bags of stuff in the trunk of your car waiting to be returned to the store, and opened but unprocessed e-mails in your inbox all have in common? They are all things that have been started but not completed. Uncompleted tasks can weigh us down – rather than being ... Views: 1300
Best Face Masks for Men We Swear By
Feeling great and looking healthy are always going to take work. When you have the right tools available to you, though, it is not going to seem like much work at all. This is why it is so important to find the right facial mask.
As a man, you may find ... Views: 1299
If you want that your employees become more productivity maybe it is time for you to stop blaming your team and start rolling up your own sleeves. Sometimes, yes, it is your employees’ lack of essential skills the cause of tasks not getting done, but, on many occasions, you could have done ... Views: 1299
I heard a quote from the CEO of E-Women's Network, Sandra Yancey, recently that really jumped out at me. She said: "Until you know what's important to you, you'll never be able to tell what's necessary and what's a distraction."
This made me think of two crucial tools I've seen help ... Views: 1299
Change is an unavoidable event in a person's life. There is no getting around it. The question is will you change by design or default? Will your change be for better or for worse?
As long as you live, move and breath you will be confronted with the need to make the changes necessary to ... Views: 1298
One of the biggest struggles for an entrepreneur is how to get focused. I think it's in an entrepreneur's DNA to have to contend with the focus monster. It is, however, imperative that you create a system for being able to focus on the most important tasks (high value) in order to reap the ... Views: 1297
I know you are committed at least on some level or you wouldn't even be reading this article. But seriously, how committed are you to make your business really be a success?
By being successful I mean how much money are you really making (and keeping) and how many people are you helping?
I ... Views: 1296
I was speaking with a client earlier today who related a story to me about a river in Louisiana that was jammed full of logs. Nothing was moving in or out. Many strategies were employed to loosen the jam but nobody was able to clear it. Everyone and everything was stuck. Finally someone came ... Views: 1296
Having written two bestselling books that consist mostly of questions (The Little Book Of Big Questions and Instant Insight), I have a lot I could say about this subject. Yet, in essence what I want to convey is that by asking yourself specific questions on a regular basis, you can ... Views: 1294
Study after study in which we say “Thank you” to our customers reveals that they both spend more money with us and tell their friends about the exceptional service and products we deliver. Volumes of books chronicle how employee productivity zooms skyward when appreciation is expressed. (The ... Views: 1293
Time management tools are designed to help you stay focused on the tasks at hand.
Time Management ToolsWith all the distractions that are around in today’s modern world, one of the hardest aspects for many people is to stay on task.
Cell phones, Facebook, Twitter, and socializing are just ... Views: 1292
Knowing your market is essential to your business success. Understanding demographics enables you to do incredibly targeted marketing.
The demographics of your market are their geographic location, age, gender, family status, income, buying behavior, buying preferences, etc. Analyzing the ... Views: 1291
How many hours do you spend in meetings, in a typical week? If you include the ‘proper’ scheduled meetings (including 1:1’s), and take a guess at the impromptu ‘Have you got a minute?’ conversations that always take longer than that, it probably adds up to a sizeable chunk of your working week. ... Views: 1291
• Do you want to become more assertive and successful in your work relationships?
• Do you want to feel healthier, get fitter, and feel more optimistic about your life?
• Are you ready to free yourself from procrastination, and start freeing up time to do the things that really matter to ... Views: 1290
"Dream big, Sparkle more, Shine bright"
Lately, I’ve been finding it hard to find time to work on my music, to come up with new stuff and practice songs for gigs. I have even forgotten to spare time to have fun with music and to experiment with it, me busy being caught up with school work and ... Views: 1289
You've followed a dream to motivate others to achieve their goals by establishing yourself as a coach or trainer. You may even have evolved a speciality - weight loss or life coach perhaps - and have a handful of clients. What are the tools you need to succeed as a coach? Next to your training, ... Views: 1289
In a designer’s jargon, to clip an image means removal of undesired entities from the frame in order to make the end result spellbound. There are many scenarios in which a portion or background is clipped right from commercial grounds to personal portraits. There are galore of image editing ... Views: 1288
I specialize in Time Management and Productivity Maximization. It would only be fair to say that dealing with Time management issues is easier than production issues. The main reason is that when you are dealing with time, the concerns are the same for everyone. When you develop a way for ... Views: 1288
You have invested thousands of dollars in programs and trainings. You are working your butt off on your business day in and day out. You follow the instructions to a T. You do everything by the book. Sometimes you make a few sales, get a few clients… sometimes you don’t. There seems to be no ... Views: 1287
Forgiveness in life
Is forgiveness a sign of weakness? Does unforgiveness hurt you? Does forgiving someone benefit you?
Every person should learn how to forgive, which really means when you think of someone that upset or hurt you, you wish him or her good and prosperity. When you don’t ... Views: 1286
Has your to-do list grown overnight?
Yes, it’s “the most wonderful time of the year”…and yet many of us miss the wonder of it all due to the overwhelm at work that accompanies the holidays.
Here are 3 ways to cure your holiday overwhelm at work starting today:
Focus on Positive ... Views: 1284
Recently, I delivered a keynote presentation about business growth, “Fence Posts to Trees,” to the top forty emerging leaders of a U.K.-based pharmaceutical company. I ate with one of their five senior VPs during the meal that preceded. He lives in Scotland, commutes to London weekly, and ... Views: 1283
I don’t know how it always seems to happen so quickly, but here we are welcoming in yet another new year. I often ponder how life must really zip by quickly for people who are disorganized, since they are often running late, in a frenzy looking for misplaced things, or in a panic because they ... Views: 1282
If managers are serious about their organizations' survival, then they must build and cultivate a staff of invested and knowledgeable Millennials. The underlying problem is that most managers do not understand how to engage their Millennial employees effectively.
Millennials work, think, and ... Views: 1282
The improvements of the internet and the tools for entrepreneurs and all professionals, that have less than mediocre technical skills, has made all the difference in enabling entrepreneurs to build businesses without breaking the bank. On the flip side, however, is that all the new technology we ... Views: 1280
The age we are living in is such that we require devices to purify our water so that it is safe consumption. A direct result of the pollution in the world, water purifiers have seen a rise in demand. Technology has given us three different types of purifiers which we see in the market: UV ... Views: 1280
John lives an average life, waking up at 7 am every day. He immediately switches on the radio as he wakes up, filling his brain with all sorts of random pointless distracting input. He drives off to work with the radio blaring away in the background. This allows him to stay tuned out of his day ... Views: 1279
They come in all different shapes and sizes. Some are monumental distractions and time-wasters. Others are opportunities that seem almost too good to pass up. The one thing they have in common is, you and me and other entrepreneurs who constantly have their radar up and attract these things ... Views: 1278
Get Your Act Together or Admit that you Just Don’t Get It by: David Brooke
As the cliché goes, you can kill someone with kindness. If you expect kindness from this article, stop reading now.
You’re a mess. And you’re a mess because you can’t stop thinking about ... Views: 1278
For sustainability in a complex ADD world, the key is focused engagement. What the business community knows today is that old ways are not sustainable and you can no longer execute without engagement.
However, a strategic business advantage comes from knowing there is a flow to the focus of ... Views: 1278
If you’re in the profession of wedding photography, you know that weddings are a disaster waiting to happen. Many people are unaware that it takes a lot of planning as a wedding photographer to get everything just right. For those that are just starting out, here are some techniques that can ... Views: 1278
Do you ever wake up feeling stressed just thinking about your day? Phone calls, emails, errands, and appointments. These days it doesn’t matter how early you wake up, the fact is you will already be behind schedule. Because time in our culture is moving so fast. It's like a race to get to the ... Views: 1276
Although I know how to change the own oil in my car, cook my own meals, and process my own photographs, I’d rather have someone else do it. That’s right, I’m a lazy idiot. The businesses that provide these services are making money off of me, but I’m also gaining valuable time by delegating ... Views: 1274
Busy work can be regarded as any task or assignment we engaged in that consumes our time but in the end shows little for our effort. The net result is a decrease in our personal or business productivity. Now if procrastination is your thing, great, but if you have goals and objectives you're ... Views: 1274
Clammy hands? Blank mind? Have you become an expert at creative avoidance? No one actually looks forward to cold calling, yet it’s a necessity for successful selling.
Happily, there are some simple cold calling techniques you can use to become much more comfortable, move past your fear and ... Views: 1274
There are three types of sacred spaces:
- A room
- A location for a specific item
- An interruption-free block of time
All three have the following characteristics in common:
- They are used for one specific purpose
- They are clutter-free
- They flow naturally with your ... Views: 1273
Learning how to increase productivity is the key to becoming successful at just about anything! In fact when you improve productivity you are also improving upon the quality of your life since you are now making the best use of time! This of course allows for you to do the other things that ... Views: 1273
Multi-tasking, maintaining or increasing productivity and peak performance demands are at an all-time high. The result, stress and anxiety are also at an all-time high. Today's economic demands and their undesirable side effects are the same whether you are in accounting, marketing, ... Views: 1272
You discovered your productivity trigger. You are more productive in that all-important first hour of your day. You set boundaries around technology intrusion on your productivity.
You are well on your way to doing more in one hour than most business professionals do in a month. But there is ... Views: 1272
The final weeks are upon us for 2010, and many people are left wondering how much of a shift for improvement they made over 2009. Here are just a few questions you can ask yourself in order to gauge your response…
* Was 2010 the year you broke through major barriers that previously held ... Views: 1272
I enjoyed some quiet time early one morning before the demands of my day started. All of a sudden, a bird began squawking just outside the window. At first I ignored it, but it loudly persisted so I got up.
As I stepped out on the porch, I saw the bird squawking at Maybelle, our cat, who sat ... Views: 1271
Ready or not, here it comes – tax season will be upon us sooner than we may like. Do you remember how things went last year as you gathered your financial paperwork? Will this year be more organized? Did you have to forego some deductions you deserved last year because you couldn’t find the ... Views: 1271
Teams and organizations are constantly plagued by project execution errors and failures. These failures create an execution gap -- a gap between what an individual and/or team plans to do and what they actually do instead. Just as retention rapidly degrades after learning, so does project ... Views: 1271
Designated home office and business development time are essential for the small business owner. This is the time you can concentrate on your business - plan for the week ahead, learn new skills or software and in effect allow you to serve your clients better and run your business more ... Views: 1270
We all know that productivity can help us to develop the ways for more wisely spending time in spite of hard times. As a person was productive, he or she could do many things without the direct help of others.
Studies say that to be productive is a very necessary thing in the life of a person ... Views: 1270
You have no idea what people can do for you, if you ask them to help you. And it all boils down to the fact of how generously have you networked with them, over the time you partnered with them. Despite the fact, there are so many marketers avoiding this simple, straightforward practice. ... Views: 1267
Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur or a self-employed veteran of business, operating a home business can be as rewarding as it is challenging. One of the major challenges you will face is keeping your home business organized amidst the chaos of working from home. Here are just a few ... Views: 1267
I see an oft-repeated situation with business owners. Typically it involves a spouse or business partner who is very concerned about cutting costs. This concerned person urges the business owner to spend less money, believing that if the business spends less money, then there will be more money ... Views: 1267
Achieving business success requires more than collecting advanced degrees and learning sales and marketing strategies. These things are useful, but we are so ‘dis-integrated’ in our thinking these days that we miss the forest (the big picture) because we are so busy trying to cut down trees ... Views: 1266