Have you seen the classic movie – Jurassic Park? A wildlife amusement park, created to be structured and safe, suddenly turns chaotic and dangerous for the visitors due to small unrelated and unpredictable incidents. Does your productivity suffer the same eventuality? Mine certainly does! I will start the day with great intentions of working through my to-do list. But before you know it, some tiny unplanned event will crop up, like a phone call (I don’t avoid) or the urge to finish laundry … [Read more...]
How to Boost Your Productivity With the Paper Notes Hack
Do you get easily distracted? I certainly do. I‘m always googling random things and taking notes every time I have an idea. Which is often. However, as a startup founder, it’s important for me to maximize the time I spend focusing on important tasks. Writing articles, working on our website, and creating product pitches all require uninterrupted deep work. Context switching does not help productivity. My challenge has been to tame my 'monkey mind'. Paper Notes Hack This is when I stumbled … [Read more...]
About Time: Benefits of Tracking Time and How to do it Effectively
We’ve all had those days where minutes quickly turn into hours and yet your work stays on your desk - undone and waiting for the next day. So what’s really happening to your day? Many people don’t realize how much time they’re frittering away on a daily basis. That's because they really have no idea how they are spending the hours, minutes and seconds in each day. What's the solution? Time tracking. Tracking your time need not be a major ordeal. You can start on a small scale—say, just for … [Read more...]
This 30-second Hack will Make Sure You Complete Your Task
Remember that task you planned to do today? Yes, that one! But somehow it’s the end of day and you didn't get around to doing it. Maybe it was a small task like: Returning a call Responding to an email Making that expense report Or, may be it was a bigger one like: Setting a brainstorming session with yourself Completing the presentation Finishing a book or starting one Somehow you never seem to complete your tasks... Do you know why? Tasks which don't have a … [Read more...]