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Mindsets and Perspectives

The mindsets or “inner game” that you have about life and abstract concepts are the foundations of successful time management. Here are our perspectives on popular (and not-so-popular) productivity and success perspectives.

5 Questions to Help You Discover Your Purpose

Mindsets

One of the more common email requests we get is from readers wanting to know how they can uncover their purpose, or story, in life.

Flow, Validation, State and Productivity

Mindsets

One of the most common questions when it comes to productivity and time management is “How can I get in flow?”. What people are talking about here is that state of peak performance – those times when you’re working or enjoying something, and time has this stillness to it… and you’re enjoying what you’re doing ...

The 5 Working Styles of Asian Efficient People

Mindsets

Something we’ve observed recently at Asian Efficiency is that different people we know have very different ways of working and that there are things we can learn from each of them.

5 Life Lessons from Tucker Max for Achieving Success

Mindsets

Vince Wong of Project 1% recently directed me towards a transcript of a speech given by Tucker Max. Regardless of popular opinion of Tucker Max and his antics, he makes some excellent points about mindsets, goals and habits. They were a great reminder for me to start off 2013, so I thought I would share.

Are you a go-getter or a procrastinator?

Mindsets

Here’s a simple question: are you someone who gets stuff done or are you admittedly a procrastinator? We all like to think that we are do-ers and get stuff done. Deep down inside, do you really believe this? Do you really see yourself as someone who starts and finishes things?

Diminishing Returns – Working More Does Not Mean Getting More Done

Mindsets

Throughout his life, Henry Ford ran a lot of productivity experiments to determine how to get the highest dollar value out of his production line and his employees. In an interview in 1926, Henry Ford concluded that forty hours a week is the optimum number of hours for employees. What he found is that when ...

Applied Opportunity Cost

Mindsets

Opportunity Cost is a concept from economic theory that describes a cost that is measured in the value of the alternative forgone. Simply put, it’s what you’re potentially missing out on by doing something else. This is a very important concept for efficiency and productivity, especially when you realize the numerous ways it can be applied ...

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