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.

Diminishing Returns – Working More Does Not Mean Getting More Done

Mindsets
Diminishing returns

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 ...

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Applied Opportunity Cost

Mindsets
Two Doors

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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Effectiveness Before Efficiency

Mindsets
Hamster Wheel

One of the most common problems that people have when they discover that they can implement strategies and techniques for being efficient, is that they often do so at the expense of effectiveness. Effectiveness is far more important than efficiency.

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Keeping Focus: Separating Your Personal and Professional Lives

Mindsets
Laptop at the beach

A really common problem that a lot of entrepreneurs and business owners have, is that their work lives and their personal lives tend to blur together. For those of you fortunate enough to never experience this, it’s the feeling that you’ve never really left the office when you’re at home and that whatever you have ...

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Spending Versus Investing Time

Mindsets
Spending vs investing time

Here at Asian Efficiency we are obsessed with time. When you want to quantify how productive you are, the only metric you can really use is time. In order to improve your time management skills, you first have to start looking differently at what the concept of “time” means to you.

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Base Hits and Home Runs: Getting Projects Off the Ground and Finishing Them

Mindsets
Baseball on the beach

As an extension to an article we published a couple of weeks ago on Actions and Systems, we’re going to look at a particular subset of that time management paradox – how to get projects off-the-ground, and how to make sure they’re finished (preferably on time). Now given enough time, most of us can complete almost ...

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Strategic Planning or Guns Blazing: Different Ways to Get Things Done

Mindsets
Coffeeshop Girl

Today we’re going to look at a paradox about how things get done in reality. We all know people who are productivity nerds – they have systems, charts and lists for everything. Their lists are color-coded, tagged with shortcodes and they have lists that summarize their summary lists. Everything they do gets done in an ...

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