When it comes to putting together your daily work schedule, things can seem pretty straightforward: You have so many hours you have to put in at the office, and projects you have to complete, for things to go smoothly. With that in mind, the process of putting them in order – with your most important [...]

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Most of us have pulled all-night work sessions at some point in our careers. For most of us, the habit usually begins with a cramming session in high school or college, supposedly to help us make it through the test or paper that we were not prepared for. Eventually, it becomes something we get used [...]

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Regular readers of my articles will already know that they should begin each day with a plan. Hopefully, all of you are thinking a little bit about what you want to accomplish well before you sit down at your desk first thing in the morning, and it is a habit that’s helping you make better [...]

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Talk to any of the highest-performing executives, and they will most likely tell you they have a system for productivity. It might revolve around a certain piece of software, a filing system, stack of index cards, or something altogether different, but all of the biggest achievers use one. What you should learn from that, however, [...]

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Of course, the holidays are not traditionally a time to concentrate on productivity, and we may spend December thinking about our families, celebrations, and possibly some upcoming time off of work. Most of us will still have work responsibilities during that time, however, and the last thing you need in January is a bigger list [...]

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Time management and productivity training is an interesting field. On the one hand, things are changing all the time: The tools, distractions, and priorities that people set for themselves change with new career paths and technologies. Meanwhile, a lot of what goes into “getting more done” boils down to a few key concepts that don’t [...]

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When it comes to time management and productivity, sleep can be a tricky thing: Without enough of it, you can’t do your best work. And yet, one of the best time management tips you’ll find – and one I am quite fond of – is to get up a little bit earlier to exercise or [...]

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One of the  ironies of the “information age” is that there’s so much data out there that it is hard to actually learn anything, much less concentrate on it for very long. In fact, some experts think that, with so much information and so many facts coming at us all the time, the art of [...]

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A lot of us went to the summer thinking about all of the things we were going to accomplish… only to eventually watch those goals dissipate away with the long days and summer sun. I have written in the past about the letdown that often comes toward the end of January or the beginning of [...]

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One of the toughest things about the process of learning time management and being more productive is that it rarely ever works out the way you think it will, or the way an author describes it in a book. It is not as if you jot down a set of ideas, or attend the time [...]

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