Productivity Tips and Tricks

Our articles on productivity, time tracking and everything else related to time management.

The Ultimate Guide to the “Don’t Break the Chain” Productivity Method

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Don't Break The Chain

Do you want to know one of the keys to success? It is doing the little things every day that most people will never see and that help you get closer to your big goal. Success stories might seem like sudden overnight successes, but people usually never get to see all the tiny things that ...

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Productivity Secrets From Our Twitter Friends

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Productivity tips from our Twitter friends

We share a ton of tip, tricks and techniques on time management but we are definitely not the only ones who know a lot about the topic. Last week I asked our twitter followers what their secret productivity tips were and we got a lot of responses. I want to share some of the best ...

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Leverage Points

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Helicopter Leverage

Leverage Points are the intersection of our strengths, high-value activities and wants. They are what we do to create results and do amazing things in lives. This article is going to break them down into further detail, and show you how to uncover your own leverage points, then make sure that you’re spending most of ...

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Pocket Times: How to Squeeze More Work in a Day

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pocket watch

Every day we inevitably have little moments of time that creep up on us, and are not set aside for anything useful. Think of the times when you were waiting for someone or standing in line somewhere. Or the time you were stuck in traffic that almost made you shoot yourself in the head (LA? ...

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Time Tracking: Why You Should Do It and Analyzing Your Data

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Stormtroopers WTF

As a follow up to our epic piece on Time Tracking (and why it’s the most important thing you can possibly measure in your life), here’s a follow up with yet more reasons as to why you should track your time, and what to do with the data once you have it.

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Covey’s Time Management Quadrants

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Time wall

Being able to prioritize is an essential skill and in order to be productive, you have to invest your time wisely. A great way to prioritize is by using the Covey Quadrant that was popularized by Stephen Covey. While the book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People explains in-depth how the quadrant works, this ...

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Time Tracking: The One Thing That Will Tell You Exactly How Productive You Are… Or Aren’t!

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Losing Track of Time

“If you can not measure it, you can not improve it.” – Lord Kelvin There is a precept that what you can measure, you can improve. And with the abundance of tracking technology available to us today, it can be easy to be overwhelmed by the number of things you have to keep track of.

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