tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27067369858030901842024-02-07T02:51:24.755-05:00All Things Time Management & ProductivityBased on the new release Organizational Strategies for the Overwhelmed. Mission of blog: help readers manage their time to gain a life; to build a quality life through the lens of time. Bring a time management workshop to your organization - www.joanncorley.com This blog is now on The 1% Edge Portable Coach App - available on all smartphone platforms.JoAnn Corleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351862967107737286noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2706736985803090184.post-36296692642748267022014-08-25T10:01:00.000-04:002014-08-25T10:01:07.087-04:00Do Your Co-Workers Consider You a Digital Downer?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ever heard of the song, "Don't Drag Me Down?" It does exist though you may not have heard it and I guarantee you that's how some colleagues feel about their fellow co-workers in the area of digital competency!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you negatively impact other's time because of your lack of digital proficiency? I know there are many that could answer yes to that question. With technology, (i.e. working digitally) being front and center in our work lives, it's now an imperative to be skilled in the use of certain key components.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am what you consider a "non-tech" techie. I'm not a coder. I am though, someone enjoys technology, who thinks there is cool factor to it and someone who wants to embrace anything that can impact people's lives for the better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am also someone who is an adopter in the sense that I am not in denial about the role it plays in business and more specifically in the lives of the everyday worker. So I expect myself to learn and become competent in the use of key digital tools and functions. <b>In my view you're either an adopter or a resister and resistance impacts time and productivity for yourself and others!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Do you resist assimilating technology (digital tools) into your life? </b>If so, <i>you will be left behind</i> as some of the things I am about to share with you, <u>grade school kids know how to use with great skill!</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So what should you consider as being the fundamentals of digitally competency? Well there's a list, but I'll start with 3 that have the most impact:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1. Email</b> -- Whatever program (email client as they say in the tech world) you use, know all it's capabilities. I say in my <a href="https://www.joanncorley.com/Getting_Things_Done.html" target="_blank">time and organizational management seminar</a> most of us know only how our email functions based on when we first started using it. So if you use Outlook for example, do you know <i>all</i> it's capabilities and how you can utilize them to be more efficient in it's use?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Additionally, have you created a customized system by which you manage your email? I say customized because it's going to be different for everyone. News flash... there is not "one way" that everyone <i>should </i>handle email. We all have different thinking and decision-making styles, which I address in my book <a href="http://time-management-training.blogspot.com/p/learn-about-book.html" target="_blank">Organizational Strategies for the Overwhelmed</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2. Using a Browser</b> -- I know for some this may sound ridiculous, but trust me, I know folks who don't know how to use a browser and know little of it's full capabilities. So let's start with something as simple as when you download a document, where does it go and how do you retrieve it? Do you know what browser applications and extensions are and which ones can help you in the work you do?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>3. Information Management -- </b>Once the world wide web was born, we entered the information age and when mobile capabilities were introduced, we moved into the age of information explosion. Many of us search, access and manage information (or try to) on a regular basis for a variety of reasons. If you're like me, in the beginning, my most common phrase was, "Now where did I put that?" Then the search began as I tried to find it. Two minutes went by...five minutes went by -- "oh yeah, there it is!," I'd proclaim in the heat of frustration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of many helpful information management functions now available is tagging (this is the new word for the old school word "indexing"). You simply attribute certain key words to <i>anything</i> so that you can find it quicker. I use a Mac and tagging is now an integrated element of it's operating system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Additionally there are ways you save information through your browser with a simple right click and then be able to access it from all your devices. Also <b>from a browser,</b> you can send an email, share it on social media, save it to an information management application like Evernote, and even send it to Kindle. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the way, I see a browser as an essential digital partner. It's capabilities go way beyond, "this is how I get on the web." The one you choose to use and the capabilities it offers can make all the difference in your digital efficiency. And yep, different browsers have different capabilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For some reading just this list, it might feel a bit overwhelming. My suggestion is to start with one thing -- one area (like the theme from my professional development blog <a href="http://www.the1percentedge.com/" target="_blank">Brand Me! -The 1% Edge</a>) and then make it a goal to learn and apply one new element once a month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And here is the exceptionally good news, just about anything you need to learn in this regards can be found on YouTube...and it's free!!! So there! Now, no excuses for increasing your digital competency to save time and increase your productivity for yourself and others! Commit to no longer being a digital downer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I consider time and organizational management 1 of 5 individual </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">employee</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">as well as management </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">core competencies -- </span><a href="https://www.joanncorley.com/Employee_Competencies.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">learn more here</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok...that may sound like an odd question. It makes more sense to me initially because I just wrote a blog post on my professional development blog <a href="http://www.the1percentedge.com/2014/08/is-it-time-to-surrender.html" target="_blank">The 1% Edge on the power of surrender</a>. It occurred to me that the ability to accomplish what I suggested in that post impacts time and productivity management.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How much time do we waste fighting reality?...and in that fight cause chaos that we then have to spend time cleaning up? Then consider the ripple effect to other people's lives and time. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I reflected on this question and a myriad of examples came flooding into my mind. Man...the amount of energy spent that could have been redirected and used more constructively is breath taking!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I invite you to read the post on surrendering - through the lens of time and productivity management. Give thoughtful consideration to whatever truths resonate in your life and respond with a plan that will help you achieve more of the life you really want!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Post: <a href="http://www.the1percentedge.com/2014/08/is-it-time-to-surrender.html" target="_blank">Is It Time To Surrender?</a></span><br />
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Here’s a great time management tip or time management strategy that can really save you time!</div>
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<strong>Overwhelmed by a large project? Having a hard time getting motivated? Finding yourself procrastinating?</strong></div>
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Ever heard the expression or question, “how
do you eat an elephant? “ The answer? – one bite at a time. Well that
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procrastinating, or having a hard time getting motivated. You’ve got to
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Usually looking at, focusing on one step and
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the light of getting something done. Once you write out actionable,
reasonable steps your emotions become diffused and your brain begins
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<strong>Coaching Tip: Break it down, focus on the first small step and give yourself the one minute challenge!</strong></div>
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A Messy Environment Makes It Harder for You to Focus on a Task</h2>
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In an experiment, people who sat by a messy desk that was scattered with papers felt more frustrated and weary and took nearly <strong>10% longer</strong> to answer questions in a color-and-word-matching task, in comparison with those who were seated by a neatly arranged desk, say doctoral candidate Boyoun (Grace) Chae of the University of British Columbia and Rui (Juliet) Zhu of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of <span class="il" style="background-color: #ffffcc;">Business</span> in China. A disorganized environment appears to threaten people’s sense of personal control, and the threat depletes their ability to regulate themselves, the researchers say.<br />
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8 TIPS TO CREATE A RELAXED AND ENJOYABLE WORKSPACE TO IMPROVE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY</h1>
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<span style="color: #373737; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It’s amazing how many people neglect to make their workspace
enjoyable given that it is a place you spend about one third of your day. In
fact many people spend more time in their offices than they do at their homes.
How then should you leave your office as uncomfortable as possible while you
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has been proven that a relaxed office atmosphere contributes to more <a href="http://blog.ngcareers.com/category/productivity/"><u style="text-underline: #262626;"><span style="color: #3477c6; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">productivity at the workplace</span></u></a>. Your
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Below are some tips from <a href="http://www.stevepavlina.com/" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.1s linear; border: 0px; color: #418cd1; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s linear; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Steve Pavlina</a> on how to turn your office/workspace into an enjoyable space. Note that the rule in designing an enjoyable workspace is that you do only what you like and are comfortable with.</div>
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1. Choose Peaceful and Relaxing Colours to Create the Right Ambience</h3>
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To make your office look appealing you should start with the colours of the office. Colours and lighting tend to have an effect on a person’s mood. Pavlina advises trying to find out the emotions that your current office settings invoke in you. He suggests stepping into your office while paying attention to your sense impressions.</div>
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He says you should go with your own taste and emotional preferences and not try to copy what works for someone else as you try to redesign your workspace. For example a particular programmer prefers working in a dark room without windows and says he loves it that way. Different things work for different folks when it comes to having a nice office ambience.</div>
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Try whatever works for you; new furniture, photos, wallpapers, artworks, flowers, etc. if you have the authority you can also change the lighting in your office to reflect what you really want.</div>
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<b>2. Clear Out the Cluster</b></div>
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Most times disorganised workspaces mirror the person occupying the space as stressed and unorganised. A cluttered workspace hardly helps your focus and will rather hamper your productivity.</div>
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It is advisable to go for a clear and minimal office arrangement. Put files and documents away in a file cabinet until you need them. Keep only things related to your current task on your desk. Having a free work environment does wonders for your feeling and when you feel good about where you work you do better.</div>
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3. Add Plants and Flowers</h3>
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Use living oxygen-generating plants in your office if you can. Pavlina advises using life plants and not fake ones. Water them regularly. He insists that when you see the plant blossoming your mood directly will respond positively each day you enter your office to work. Nice plants and flowers around the office will certainly do more good than harm and may even bring some luck <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://blog.ngcareers.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif" /></div>
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4. Add a Good Smell</h3>
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Have your office or workspace smell good; it will certainly lift your spirit. Find sweet smelling scent candles or scents. Certain scents like lemon and lavender have significant good effects on productivity.</div>
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5. Play Relaxing Music</h3>
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Pavlina says you should experiment with various styles of music to discover which suits you and has good positive effects on your stress level and productivity. While for certain work you might want total silence good music can keep you going through some tasks smoothly.</div>
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Research extensively and build your playlists accordingly for your use at various times. Personally I have discovered that various music types appeal to me at various times and depending on the type of work. Having diverse and carefully created playlists will prove useful as you play the right music for your work at any time.</div>
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Better still you could subscribe to any of the decent music streaming platforms like Iroking and play what you want at any time.</div>
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The distribution of the music within your office also matters. Have someone do the right connections with sound systems that soothe and inspire instead of disturb.</div>
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6. Get a Decent Chair</h3>
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You will probably do most of your work on your seat so Pavlina advises you make it very comfortable but not too comfortable. Simply go to the nearest office supply store and find what suits you.</div>
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7. Add a Portable Fan</h3>
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Even with air-conditioning in your office you may have need for a movable fan near your desk to circulate the cool atmosphere and make you a bit more relaxed. You can find good ones at the home appliances stores around.</div>
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8. Establish Uninterrupted Periods</h3>
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There should be periods each day you should do block any form of interruption be it from colleagues, phone calls etc. This should be during periods when you are at the peak of your energy and need to work on your most serious tasks and duties.</div>
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However note that some jobs require more solitude and concentration than others; a programmer certainly needs more quiet periods than say a receptionist.</div>
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The above tips should get you delivering your best in the most accomodating office/workspace ambience.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Summary</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: What you focus on will impact your productivity and thereby your time. This is critical time management strategy...continue to read and learn why.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Makes sense. The long-term contracts provide some stability and predictable cash flow. They assist in getting closer to his clients. They also help him to borrow funds more easily.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">So far, so good.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">When I asked him how many of these long-term maintenance contracts he has already, he couldn't tell me. He didn't know! He said he's been too busy to track the number of such agreements.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Wait a minute! If this type of agreement is so important to Mike's growth strategy, how can he not know the status?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The fact is that most owners and CEOs know what's important to their enterprise, but can't (or don't) measure those things.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">You've heard the old maxim: "You can't manage what you don't measure." You have also likely read the story of the "Hawthorne Effect".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">They figured out that the productivity gains were not related to the brightness of the lights, but to the act of measuring. </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">They were paying a lot of attention to the effectiveness of their workers. And guess what? The workers responded by working more effectively.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">What do you pay a lot of attention to? What are you constantly measuring, asking your employees about, talking about and looking at?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">When your team knows what's truly important to you, they'll likely pay more attention to those things, too.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Focusing on two or three key business metrics does something else for your behavior. It triggers your Reticular Activating System. Your brain is assaulted by thousands of messages each second. Everything you see, hear, smell, feel and touch is a message entering your brain. The Reticular Activating System filters through all these messages and decides which ones will get page one treatment - that is, arouse the brain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">One of the things we've learned from working with entrepreneurs is that you tend to pay attention to the things, which are important to you at the time. If your currently dominant thoughts are about creating a new brochure, you'll start seeing other brochures. You'll hear conversations about brochures. You'll pick up ideas relating to brochures and even notice colors that would be attractive for the new brochure.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">From a practical point of view, this means that, if you want to solve a problem or achieve a goal, keep it at the top of your mind. Think about it, talk about it, write about it and imagine it completed. This is one of the reasons why affirmations work so well and why it is important to review your goals frequently.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode'; font-size: 11pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Chances are, you'll get what you're looking for - improvements in these areas. Count on it!</span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Editor's Note: I curated this because decision-making is a key element of time management and productivity! Managing decision fatigue is a great time management tip!</span></h1>
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5 Ways to Inhibit Decision Fatigue for Maximum Productivity</span><span style="font-size: 2.25rem; font-weight: 400;"> <span style="color: #999999; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 29px; text-transform: uppercase;">BY</span><span style="color: #999999; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 29px; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span><span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #999999; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 29px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a class="entry-author-link" href="http://ridiculouslyefficient.com/about-marissa-brassfield?rel=me" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">MARISSA BRASSFIELD</a></span><span style="color: #999999; font-size: 0.75rem; line-height: 29px; text-transform: uppercase;"> </span></span></h1>
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Decision fatigue — the phenomenon of making poorer decisions after long decision-making periods — is a huge productivity pitfall. <span id="more-841" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span>Essentially, your mental energy deteriorates after making decisions all day. Judges suffering from decision fatigue might <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/work-in-progress/2011/09/07/avoiding-the-dreaded-decision-fatigue/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">rule against</a>prisoners up for parole, while a shopper at the grocery checkout line might break down and buy a piece of candy.</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 2.5rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Make important, expensive or mission-critical decisions first.</span> It isn’t always possible to postpone a decision until the next morning; to inhibit decision fatigue, tackle the toughest items and issues first.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 2.5rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Avoid back-to-back meetings.</span> Expend all your mental energy at meetings, and you’ll have none left when you return to your desk.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 2.5rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Recharge throughout the day.</span> <a href="http://ridiculouslyefficient.com/2011/09/29/is-your-diet-sabotaging-your-productivity/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">Snacking wisely</a> and <a href="http://ridiculouslyefficient.com/2011/11/05/emotional-refueling-recharging-to-unlock-work-productivity/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">emotional refueling</a> are essential for long-term productivity; another way to recharge during the workday is through brief <a href="http://ridiculouslyefficient.com/2011/10/28/meditate-efficiently/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">meditation sessions</a>.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 2.5rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Get perspective on your goals.</span> It’s much easier to prioritize decisions when you have a firm grasp of your team’s goals and expectations.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: disc; margin-left: 2.5rem;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Recognize when you’re mentally tapped out.</span> Self-knowledge is an <a href="http://ridiculouslyefficient.com/2011/11/05/self-knowledge/" style="-webkit-transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out;">effective productivity tool</a>; in terms of inhibiting decision fatigue, a good defense is sometimes your best offense.</li>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode';">Here’s an example. Let’s say that you’d like to improve the relationship with your significant other or even your boss (which I guess is a “significant other” in a different kind of way), and you receive a communication tip that teaches you how to listen more effectively. When applied, effective listening will improve that relationship significantly because the person will feel heard….and the number one psychological need a person has is to be heard.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode';">The key - it's just a little something over a period of time that turns into a significant something. 1% is very small! …now that’s the power of one!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode';">Consider as you work through the power tips offered in this handbook, what ONE thing, action, behavior, thought process, you could focus on to make this a reality in your life?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="gig-counter-text gig-share-counter-text gig-counter-text-right gig-share-counter-text-right" id="shareBarDivTop-reaction5-count-value" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border: none; float: none; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; left: 1px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: auto; zoom: 1;">2K</span></div>
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People who enjoy what they do are far more productive than those who do not have passion for their work. Have you ever been so engrossed in what you are doing that when you look up, you discover hours have passed in what seems like minutes? Such joyful immersion is key to productivity. Denis Waitley reminds us, "Happy people plan actions, they don't plan results."</div>
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How you think is often more important than that you think, or even what you think. The characteristic separating the good from the great, the highly successful from the folks who are just getting along, is their ability to think about themselves as successful even while on the journey to greatness -- however "greatness" is defined for you.</div>
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An important skill is to think without acting: To plan. What do you want to be known for? What do you want to do? What is possible? Change begins with what you tell yourself and others. Change your outlook and you change what is possible.</div>
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Listen to what you are saying. Are you speaking in positives? "We've come through worse than this before so I know we'll be fine in the end." Or negatives? "Sure the sun is shining now, but the forecast calls for more rain by the weekend."</div>
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Here is a 15 minute exercise to determine how you are thinking now so you know what is working, and what might need updating. Respond honestly to the following prompts:</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Money is…</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Coaches are people who…</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Goals are…</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Work is…</li>
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How you respond gives you a window into how you see the world. Below are responses I've received from others who have done this exercise:</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Life is good / Life is hard</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Money is what I use to create opportunity. /Money is the root of all evil.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Coaches are for people who are moving. / Coaches are for people who have money.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Goals are necessary to achieve more. / Goals are nice, but I am always busy enough.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Work is what I do to express myself. / Work is never over.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;">Organized people are productive. /Organized people are anal-retentive.</li>
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Do you have a perspective on a certain aspect of your life that might be worth changing? Improvement doesn't mean something is wrong to begin with. It indicates a move toward something new and possibly better.</div>
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<b>Note: </b>I am starting to write and curate on tools and processes related to information management. It's initially addressed in my book and it's just becoming an ever growing need. Organizing your information so you can find it is truly a time management and needed productivity tip, as well a 21st century professional competency!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: large;">A Brilliant Way to Organize Feedly or Your Favorite RSS Tool</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Find yourself too busy to read all the blogs and publications that interest you? Don’t have time to keep on top of the news in your industry?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.whatisrss.com/" style="color: #2c6495; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="What is RSS?">RSS</a> is a great tool for keeping up with all the blogs you know you should read, without spending all day on your computer. While RSS <em style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">sounds</em> complicated, it’s actually really simple, and it goes a long way toward making your life easier. It also saves you time, and we can ALL use more of that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Let’s be honest: Being smart about RSS makes you look good.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">So what is RSS, exactly?</span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Before we dive into today’s hack, here’s a quick RSS explainer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">In simple terms, RSS allows you to aggregate new posts from all the blogs and publications you want to keep up with in ONE place. Rather than hop around to a million different URLs to catch up on news while you sip your morning coffee, you can hang out in your aggregator and easily browse new entries. Think of it as a sister to email but without the spam; <strong style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">all the important stuff comes right to you.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I used to recommend Google Reader because it was the simplest RSS tool around. But Google has eliminated its Reader, forcing us Google Reader disciples to find an alternative. My <a href="http://www.socialexis.com/the-team/" style="color: #2c6495; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Socialexis team">Socialexis team</a> now uses <a data-cke-saved-href="http://feedly.com/" href="http://feedly.com/" style="color: #2c6495; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">Feedly</a> — and for more than keeping up with industry news. We also use it to find blog and social media fodder for every one of our clients, making it a vital part of our workflow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">If you’re new to Feedly, here’s an <a data-cke-saved-href="http://jessicalawlor.com/2013/03/google-reader-alternative-how-to-use-feedly-to-read-blogs/" href="http://jessicalawlor.com/2013/03/google-reader-alternative-how-to-use-feedly-to-read-blogs/" style="color: #2c6495; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self">easy-to-understand guide</a> from Jessica Lawlor about how to get started.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">But my goal here isn’t to convince you to set up RSS. Instead, I want to give everyone who’s already sold on the value of aggregation a better way to use Feedly or whatever RSS tool you prefer.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span id="more-6686" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span>Most of us typically set up our RSS tool haphazardly, just sort of throwing lots of blogs and news sites into our reader. If you’re savvy, you might organize your Feedly into folders by topic.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here’s a way to take it even further, a tactic that’s especially important for those of us who are so busy that we’ve gotten into the habit of neglecting our Feedly:<strong style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> organize by <em style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">importance.</em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">You can do this in two ways.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The first is my preferred method. In addition to organizing feeds by topic — I have folders for careers, journalism, social media, entrepreneurship and marketing — I also create a folder called “Don’t Miss.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">That folder includes all the blogs I absolutely don’t want to miss, the ones I want to see even when I have a lot of other tasks on my plate. Feedly allows you to put blogs into more than one folder, so <strong style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">you can file your top choices <em style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">both</em> in a topical folder <em style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">and</em> in your “Don’t Miss” folder.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">That way, even during weeks where you’re running from one event to another, you can easily pop into your Feedly and browse new posts from the publications that are most important to you. <strong style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">This is a great way to ignore a lot of the noise on the Internet and focus only on what you care about.</strong> Kind of like the <a href="http://alexisgrant.com/2012/09/19/use-this-twitter-technique-to-make-big-things-happen/" style="color: #2c6495; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Notice-Me List">Notice-Me List</a> you create to wade through Twitter noise.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Brilliant, right? (If you think so, <a href="http://clicktotweet.com/UVcUH" style="color: #2c6495; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">click to tweet this idea</a>!)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">The second way to do this is to <strong style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">avoid topical folders altogether and organize by importance only</strong>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Create several tiers of folders — Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 — and file all your publications wherever they belong, with Tier 1 being most important.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Whenever you have time to pop into your reader, start with Tier 1, to make sure you get through the important information first. When you have extra time (or, let’s face it, are procrastinating), you can move onto Tier 2 and Tier 3.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">No matter how you approach it, this system of prioritizing will help you be more efficient, so you can <a href="http://alexisgrant.com/2013/06/24/how-to-be-more-productive-and-accomplish-the-big-things-that-really-matter/" style="color: #2c6495; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Be more productive">accomplish the big things that really matter</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><strong style="line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Would you try organizing your Feedly this way?</strong> Do you have another way to organize your RSS tool that we should all know about? </span><br />
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JoAnn Corleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351862967107737286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2706736985803090184.post-63591756386720650112013-08-17T09:40:00.000-04:002013-08-17T09:32:25.501-04:00Managing Email is Managing Time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b>Are you managing email or is email managing you? </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18px;">I do believe this is another of the competencies I mentioned in the introduction of my book that needs to be developed. <i>Effective email management is a skill!</i></span></h3>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">If you can manage your email 1% better - you’ll create more time to get more work done. </span></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">With the suggestions to follow, find your 1% edge.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">With that in mind, I recommend you adopt this mindset regarding email:<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Email is a tool to manage the virtual experience. It is a tool to work with people through a process to get to a result --(so is text and the phone for that matter).<o:p></o:p></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Be more specific, informative, & directive when using and writing emails.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">So what is specific, informative and directive? <i>Tell people what to think, how to behave, and what to expect </i>as specifically as possible.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">For example - have a format or template that you use on a regular basis. If someone sends a request for something and it doesn’t have all the information, send it back with specific instruction on exactly what you need at the exact time and date you need it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">In some cases you already to do this.<b> </b>When I’m conducting a seminar I ask, “How many of you have your out of office reply on?” Many raise their hand. Then I ask then to share what it says. Many will say, “I’ll be out of the office on x day returning on x date. If you need assistance call x at extension 3560.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Here’s the overriding point to remember: </span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">e-mail like voicemail is a tool to manage a virtual experience and relationship in the context of trying to execute work. It’s about managing behavior, results, <i>and </i>expectations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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JoAnn Corleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351862967107737286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2706736985803090184.post-243173377868457142013-05-23T11:23:00.000-04:002013-05-23T11:24:18.509-04:00Want To Maximize Your Time? - Think Differently About It<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b></b><i>Remember - What you think will dictate how you behave.</i><br />
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You know, we toss around the words "time management" a lot these days. And you can certainly find plenty of information on how to do it better. It is one of the most searched keywords on the web. And as I work with people on getting results and being productive it's sometimes treated as just one more thing to deal with in our professional and personal lives.</div>
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BUT...it's much more important than "just one more thing." With that said, I want to suggest a couple of new ways to view the subject of time management. Why? <b> Because our relationship to time will make all the difference in how we use it, our degree of life satisfaction and ultimately how our lives unfold.</b><br />
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<b>And that's the first mindset suggestion -- see yourself as having a relationship to time. Yes, a relationship </b>and in this relationship you will treat it with love, respect, and care. I bet you've heard the phrase, "Respect my time." Many people don't respect their own time let alone others. You will be sensitive to it, aware of it, honor it and treat it wisely.<br />
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<b>This leads to mindset #2 -- let's reframed the phrase of time management and call it</b> <b>life management</b>. This is an essential time management tip! Time management IS life management! Personal time management IS personal life management. This just has a whole different ring, feel and level of importance to it -- in fact will create a different relationship to it.</div>
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In reality, time is life. One minute is a segment of our lives. You know…that’s a BIG DEAL. Five minutes go by – it can’t be captured again. It’s gone forever. Think about that. If we take that truth to heart I will venture to say we’ll manage our lives much differently.</div>
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How?… perhaps say no to the trivial more, not waste time thinking about things or situations we can’t change, assert our choice in how we spend our time at home, and create better boundaries with those who are not time aware.</div>
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Embracing this critical truth can impact so many meaningful areas. It's your choice and it all begins with a renewed mindset: I have a relationship to time and time is my life!<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007USYE4I" style="color: #be4f50; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Declutter Your Life From The Inside-Out</b> - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007SXUVBK" style="color: #be4f50; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Kindle</a> - <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/declutter-your-life-from-the-inside-out-joann-corley/1111472598?ean=2940014775038&isbn=2940014775038" style="color: #be4f50; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Nook</a></span><br />
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tracking productivity, it's really about tracking time usage. Time usage,
productivity, and getting needed results are not all equal. But I wanted
to bring attention to the tools of tracking time usage either via a software as
suggested or a browser add-on or extension. There are many offerings - check
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These tools are important because building time awareness is
critical to effective time management. Remember, you cannot change what you do
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<b>When It Comes To Productivity, Technology Can Hurt And Help</b></div>
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by <span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><a href="http://www.npr.org/people/96022165/yuki-noguchi">Yuki Noguchi</a></span></div>
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Even when people think they're buckling down, studies show
the average office worker wastes over a third of the day. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">(What do you think
about this statement?) </span>There's Facebook, of course, and the email from a friend
with a YouTube link. After all that, is it time to go get coffee?</div>
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Worker pay is the most expensive line item in the budget for
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But here's the silver lining: It turns out lack of
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Joe Hruska is pretty blunt about how much work anyone does
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"You're not getting 8 hours of productivity out of an
employee, even though you may have blinders on and that's what you
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Hruska is founder and CEO of <a href="https://www.rescuetime.com/"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">RescueTime</span></a>, a software firm that allows
users to sign up to see where they're spending their computer time. The data he
collects shows — at best — a worker is productive about five of those hours. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3d85c6;">(Productive
meaning active=not the same.)</span></div>
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<b>Productivity In A Shifting Workforce</b></div>
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I installed RescueTime on my own computer, and then awaited
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I confessed to Hruska that I'm scared what I'm going to
find, and wonder if it's an uncommon feeling. He says, "That is, in fact,
the most common reaction that people have."</div>
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NPR's Yuki Noguchi tried RescueTime to measure her
productivity. Here are the results.</div>
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<i>Courtesy of Yuki Noguchi</i></div>
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I was only 68 percent productive. Hruska says mere awareness of where time is
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But productivity isn't just about saving wasted time or
eliminating distraction. Increasingly, it means adapting to a workforce that's
changing demographically.</div>
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The advance of tablets and Web-based computing makes it
possible for more people to work remotely, but that also makes interoffice
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Tim Bajarin is a technology analyst who says companies —
from IBM and HP to smaller startups — are grappling with how to make the
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productivity is the No. 1 IT project in any company," Bajarin says.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Read the remainder of the article here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04/30/179072692/when-it-comes-to-productivity-technology-can-hurt-and-help</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's another tool to check out: <a href="http://www.yast.com/" target="_blank">Yast</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The bigger picture: If you want to be more productive, get better results and make the most of your time, you'll want to get <span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Organizational Strategies for the Overwhelmed - how to manage your time, space, & priorities, to work smart, get results & be happy</i> - <span style="color: #0018eb; font: 16.0px Cambria; text-decoration: underline;">Kindle</span> - <span style="color: #0018eb; font: 16.0px Cambria; text-decoration: underline;">The Book</span> - <span style="color: #0018eb; font: 16.0px Cambria; text-decoration: underline;">Nook</span><span style="font: 16.0px Cambria;"> </span>- <span style="color: #0018eb; font: 16.0px Cambria; text-decoration: underline;">Audio Book</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Cambria;"> | You can bring </span><span style="color: #0018eb; text-decoration: underline;">The Seminar. to your organization as well.</span></span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Is Your Day Out of Control? - Here's One Easy Way to Get It Back</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Have you ever had one of <em>those </em>days? You start off with big plans to be productive.
Your calendar is filled with confirmed appointments. Then, nothing
seems to go right. Your computer crashes. Your cell phone battery dies
and your charger is at home. Someone spills coffee on your shirt just
before an important meeting. Your confirmed lunch appointment stands you
up. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Don’t worry. Your day is not a total disaster. In fact, you can save your sanity and salvage the day. You just need to re-<a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/focus">focus</a>, jump start your motivation and sense of productivity. All of those scenarios above cause you to feel as if your day has gone completely out of control.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><b>Jumping starting your motivation and productivity means regaining your sense of control.</b> A simple way to do that? Follow this simple piece of time management advice:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><strong>TIP: Keep quick tasks close at hand...</strong><br />
When time opens up in your schedule, like your lunch appointment not
showing up, you suddenly have time to handle other opportunities if
you’re prepared. For example, I carry notecards, envelopes and stamps in
my bag. When I find "lost time" in short unexpected moments throughout
my busy day, this allows me to write a few thank you notes, birthday
cards and other hand-written messages to clients, staff and others in my
network. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Getting something done in place of what fell through keeps me
feeling productive and the unexpected gesture makes me stand out from
the masses.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Additionally, in any work environment and on every "to do list" are something called <b>quick tasks -- tasks that are easy, effortless and can be executed fast. </b>If you quickly want to gain a sense of control, jump start your productivity, feel as if you really are getting something done seeing tangible results, start doing your quick tasks. It's amazing how quickly your mood will turn positive and your motivation will manifest into sustained momentum.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Curated and adapted from this article: 5 Steps to Rescue Your Productivity: <a href="http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226446#ixzz2RZQ7UPoh" style="color: #003399;">http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/226446#ixzz2RZQ7UPoh</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Also on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007SXUVBK" target="_blank">Declutter Your Life From The Inside Out </a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>An Important Time Management Strategy - Invest Your Time vs. Spend It</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are constantly in our culture hearing about investing money with the hopes of getting a return on investment. And certainly many who have taken that road have been rewarded handsomely experiencing some remarkable returns.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well the same can be true about time. <b>Time, like money is a commodity and can be spent or invested - you decide.</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love this time management tip and perspective because since time is your life, what we're really talking about is investing in yourself - investing in your life! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are 4 areas that most consider meaningful and important....and in which you'll want to consider investing in. These are areas that most want to increase the quality and longevity of and one of the fundamental ways of doing that is "taking the time" to do so. It's like <i>paying if forward for yourself </i>with a ripple affect to others.</span><br />
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<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Relationships</strong> – Despite the old cliché about “quality time,” relationships are all about “quantity time.” (Hat tip to <a href="http://www.briantracy.com/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4e9113; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Brian Tracy">Brian Tracy</a>.) It’s the <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">amount</em> of time that you invest that determines the relationship.</li>
<li style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Career</strong> – Too many people <em style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wait</em> for their job to hand them a promotion or next opportunity. Instead, go out and make it happen. <a href="http://timemanagementninja.com/2011/09/no-one-is-going-to-give-it-to-you/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4e9113; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="No one is going to give it to you">No one is going to simply give you</a> that new job, you have to go out and get it.</li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When I was growing up, one of my favorite game shows was Let's Make a Deal - and it's still on! One of the aspects of that show I loved was the ability to makes choices that would determine the destiny of the contestant - Door #1 - Door #2 or Door #3...oh the mystery of it all!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes, in certain areas of our lives, playing games to get things done is a useful alternative to "throwing the whip". The area of overcoming procrastination is one of them. So let's employ the game show theme of "let's make a deal' to this common time management challenge.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're finding yourself stuck rather than go negative by trying to force yourself to do something, (this by the way is trying to overcome your own resistance - not very pleasant) try the alternative of "let's make a deal." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's how it would go: Make a deal with yourself in this way. Tell yourself that you only have to do something related to the unpleasant activity for <b>1 minute</b>. Now 1 minute does not sound like a very long time, but honestly it is. It's a useful period of time when you want to <b>jump start your motivation with minimal resistance.</b></span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll say to yourself, "That wasn't so bad."</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You'll actually have gotten something done.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your negative energy will have probably shifted and you now may be feeling positive or least neutral.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And ultimately, you'll be willing to give yourself another "let's make a deal minute" to take another step forward turning that motivation into sustainable momentum.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That, in fact, is the value to this tip - <b>moving yourself from resistance to momentum </b>via a fun and incremental way. You can even promise yourself a reward! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look, I know we're all adults here, but sometimes we have to employ a child-like self-coaching tactic to get r' done. Have fun with this one and share the idea with others! This is a great time management strategy! (It's also a great technique for getting the kids to do unpleasant tasks as well.)</span></div>
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Ok it's almost the end of the 1st quarter. Yep, can you hardly believe it! April 1st is just around the corner? So how's it going? Well, I know for me I've got clarity on some things, made some decisions and now feel I'm in a place where I can employ the 1% principle of increasing my productivity.</div>
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So for my readers who are feeling the same, I'm presenting a <b>Time Management Tune-up Series</b>. The series provides simple time management strategies any of which when used consistently can help you get more done and reduce your stress. </div>
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This series is curated from the writer: Eric Barker - the source link is provided below. Remember to use the 1% principle. As a reminder it's just choosing one thing and doing it long enough to see tangible results. </div>
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Additionally, if you're a manager or team lead, this is a great series to present or use in your staff meetings over a period of time. I bet if you used these for a quarter, an entire team will raise it's productivity.</div>
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A curated series from: Eric Barker</div>
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<b>1) Have A Solid Daily Ritual - </b><b>Use Short Minute Rituals</b></div>
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Here’s a solid one from Peter Bregman that will help you maximize use of your time .</div>
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via <a href="http://www.blogger.com/18%20Minutes:%20Find%20Your%20Focus,%20Master%20Distraction,%20and%20Get%20the%20Right%20Things%20Done:" target="_blank">18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done:</a></div>
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<i>STEP 1</i> (5 Minutes): Your Morning Minutes. This is your opportunity to plan ahead. Before turning on your computer, sit down with the to-do list you created…and decide what will make this day highly successful…</div>
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<i>STEP 2</i> (1 Minute Every Hour): Refocus. …Set your watch, phone, or computer to ring every hour and start the work that’s listed on your calendar. When you hear the beep, take a deep breath and ask yourself if you spent your last hour productively. Then look at your calendar and deliberately recommit to how you are going to use the next hour. Manage your day hour by hour. Don’t let the hours manage you.</div>
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<i>STEP 3</i> (5 Minutes): Your Evening Minutes. At the end of your day, shut off your computer and review how the day went, asking yourself… questions like: How did the day go? What did I learn about myself? Is there anyone I need to update? Shoot off a couple of emails or calls to make sure you’ve communicated with the people you need to contact.</div>
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<b>Coaching Tip: </b>Now we know with the 1% philosophy, using even one of these can make a difference. How can you employ this your team?</div>
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The Discipline of Putting Things Away</h2>
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Author: Dana Byers</div>
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Failure in the area of putting things away means we keep items out “<a href="http://danabyers.com/2012/08/31/storage/" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #5826a1; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">just in case</a>“. Is it possible we don’t put things away because we’re indecisive? Or do we keep items out because we’re multi-tasking instead of focusing well? No matter whether you think having a cluttered area to work in sparks creativity or not, <strong style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have landed on the observation that I’m personally more productive when only the items I need for a specific task are before me.</strong></div>
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<a href="http://danabyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/3161095736_042f71a9d7_m.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Please Put Your Things Away" border="0" class="size-full wp-image-2773" height="133" src="http://danabyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/3161095736_042f71a9d7_m.jpg" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 4px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="200" /></a><strong style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Here are some areas in my family’s life where we’re guilty of leaving things out:</strong></div>
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<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">* Laundry: I’m good at starting a load in the wash, but putting it away is another story.</em></div>
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<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">* Dishes: Same story as laundry.</em></div>
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<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">* It’s not uncommon for a craft to be started before bedtime in our home then left out until the next day…or two.</em></div>
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<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">* Items that are carried into our cars are sometimes not taken into the house or thrown away when we return home.</em></div>
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<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">* <a href="http://danabyers.com/2013/01/15/minimalist-kids-toys/" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; color: #5826a1; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Toys</a>: Need I say more? We’ve identified homes for them, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they are put away.</em></div>
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While I struggle with others’ messes that remain in our home from time to time, there are a few areas I’ve taken note of lately where I’m doing well at putting things away – my makeup and hairdryer after I get ready in the morning, and resetting my desk to order before I leave my office at day’s end. I think there are two reasons for this:</div>
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<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1) I am the only person responsible for these tasks, so they get done. (Translation: I cannot control my family members’ choices about putting things away, but I can control mine for the most part.)</em></div>
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<em style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">2) I know I’ll be back the next day to do the same task and want to have a smooth start. (Reason: The reward of beginning a routine task without a mess before me is motivating.)</em></div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Each time we leave things out we avoid making decisions.</strong> Narrowing options for our next task is hard. Allowing ourselves to be distracted by something more fun than putting things away means we move on without understanding a task is as complete as it can be at this time.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Now it’s your turn. </strong>Identify which tasks you’re already experiencing success in putting things away. Determine what motivates you, then work on forming the habit of putting things away in one of the areas in which you’d like to improve.</div>
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border: 0px; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Which tasks would you like to get better about putting things away when they are done?</strong></div>
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That may sound like a crazy question, but think about it. Many people begins efforts to become more skilled in this area, but don't inform the people around them. And many times those are the very people who impact your time management the most - either in a positive or negative way. It's those who may be part of the problem.<br />
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Well if this describes you, here is a simple and dare I say obvious time management tip: Employ the people around you to help you out! Ask them to hold you accountable.<br />
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Call it a bit of reverse psychology. Instead of saying to a colleague, "Hey stop interrupting me!" Let them know you're really working on your time management and you would love to get their help! Then, give them some actual things to do or say or strategies to practice with you.<br />
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I think one of the best results of harnessing the help of the people around you will be indirectly keep those very people in check themselves.<br />
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<i>So consider these questions:</i><br />
With whom would you like to employ this time management strategy?<br />
What do you want them to do or say?<br />
How will you reward or celebrate with this person to cement the commitment or achievement? (This is a great idea...consider an incentive in the endeavor that you both can share!)<br />
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<i>Curator's Notes:</i> Again, another article on time management. Do you think people turn a deaf ear to the topic/skill of time management? It's one of the most searched key words on Google, yet many people lack even the most basic skills surrounding it. I say it should be a part of every employee orientation or a required training for every employee.<br />
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Of particular note are leaders who do not possess this skill, as their ripple effect usually has much greater consequences. So, let's just put forward this premise -- time management is a leadership and management competency. Read on...<br />
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<b>There's one thing every leader needs to have to be great: time management</b>. Struggling? Take a look at what may be hurting your leadership.</div>
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In my years of coaching founders, owners, and executives, I've found that one key skill is the doorway to just about everything else. Get this one thing right, and everything else follows. Screw it up, and you'll face an uphill battle all the way.</div>
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What is this magic skill? In a simpler age, it was called<em>time management</em>. A while back, the terminology changed to <em>productivity management.</em></div>
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Now, in the 24/7 information era, I prefer to call it <em>environment control</em>-- the ability to manage the swirling, chaotic, constant flow of information, decisions and tasks that surround every leader.<br />
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Why is this seemingly mechanistic skill so important in the development of leaders? The answer is simple, but hiding in plain sight: I've found that most would-be leaders have the mental, emotional, and physical resources necessary to develop whatever skill or attribute is asked of them.</div>
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Whether developing as a leader requires you to work on the art of delegation, or more courageous risk-taking, or becoming more innovative (your mileage will vary), chances are you are quite capable of developing that skill. If you have the time and space to do it.</div>
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And there's the kicker: you probably <em>don't</em> have the time and space to do it. You start with good intentions, but the sheer pressure of other commitments and the constant inflow of new demands, new information, prevent you from taking a disciplined, structured approach to building the new skill you need.</div>
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Net result, six months later, little has changed. You're still not delegating enough, not thinking strategically enough, not innovating enough. Taking a firm grip on the environment around you--getting to the point where you can control how and where you spend your limited resources--involves radically upending how you approach three key areas of your life:</div>
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<b>1. Your Calendar.</b></div>
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If you regularly slough off meetings because you're overbooked, end the day embarrassed because you failed to show for conference calls you were expected on, or spend your time scurrying from one late-running meeting to the next, you're not going to develop as a leader. You'll simply stay on the same hamster-wheel, trapped in a groundhog day of your own making. No excuse: Great leaders have the exact same 24 hours a day that you do. They just manage them better.<br />
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<b>2. Your Commitments.</b></div>
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<b></b>When was the last time you made an inventory of all the outstanding commitments you've made to others? Or even just noted down the commitments you casually added in one day? Stuck leaders fail to realize that we can't keep making commitments, large and small, without at some point overloading our ability to deliver on those commitments. If you've reached the point where others can't trust you to do what you say you'll do, you have a systemic problem--one that will fatally stall your ability to grow as a leader.</div>
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<b>3. Your Communications.</b></div>
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<b></b>Got 400 unread emails in your inbox? Looking at a reading pile the size of a small library? Do outstanding reports and presentations start yelling for attention every time you open your laptop?</div>
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If so, your ability to lead is being compromised--severely compromised--by the pressure to <em>manage</em>.</div>
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I wish I had a magician's ability to make the problem of environment control go away overnight. I don't. But I <em>do</em> know that until you fix it, you'll never be the leader you want to be. </div>
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There <em>is</em> a solution, but requires hard work (sadly, not a popular concept in much of today's leadership literature). Grab one of the many great resources on environment control, and invest the time needed to install systems and processes that will give you mastery over your calendar, commitments and communications. </div>
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Personally, I highly recommend David Allen's classic guide, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142000280/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0142000280&linkCode=as2&tag=bitesizetrain-20" target="_blank"><em>Getting Things Done</em> </a>(full disclosure, the author is a friend of mine, but I admired and benefited from his book long before we met), but there are <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Top-Productivity-Books/lm/R2VY1USRYM17P9" style="color: #003399; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="many others out there">many others out there</a>. The issue is not a shortage of resources. The issue is your commitment.</div>
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Are you prepared to invest time to learn the only leadership skill you may ever need?</div>
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1. Consider some time management coaching - I'm happy to help you with that: em: joann@joanncorley.com</div>
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JoAnn Corleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351862967107737286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2706736985803090184.post-78787848172152344052013-02-16T12:09:00.000-05:002013-02-16T12:22:29.258-05:00The 1 Goal Method For Effective Time Management<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A simple time management tip: Use the practice of goal setting in a targeted way...</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Time management insight: Rememb<span style="color: black;">er, the focus of time management is actually changing your behaviors - creating new habits, not changing time. </span></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">A great idea to do just that is use the practice of goal setting...but not "setting goals" per sae, but setting 1 goal at a time by the week.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, as an example, if you want to address the issue of "time-wasters", rather trying to address them all at once, just choose one element of it. For this example, let's use personal phone calls. For one week set a goal that you're not going to take personal phone calls while you're working; or on certain days or times of the day (notice how that is broken down even more into a day or segment of a day.)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now in order for this to be most effective, track your progress - daily. In fact have something visual you can use, which is what I consider a coaching prompt. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your mindset in using this approach is knowing that if you reduce something a bit over time, it can make a huge difference. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our mantra? A little bit done consistently goes along way</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Did you know having a time management workshop brought to your company can actually save your company money? - Curious how?...<a href="http://www.the1percentedge.com/2011/05/can-one-time-management-tip-save-your.html" target="_blank">click here</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Need a time management tune-up? Then you'll want to pick up this fabulous resource: <i>Organizational
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are you in the habit of getting things done and getting the right things done at the right time? One of the marks of an effective professional is exactly that: the ability to get things done at the right time and in an efficient way - eh hem...meeting deadlines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In working with time management, here are two important elements to consider – efficient and effective. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. You can be efficient and not necessarily be effective.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The conclusion?...they are equally important. So, an important professional success strategy is to be known as someone who gets things done <i>and</i> being efficient at doing so.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you need help in either of these areas, then you'll want to pick up the title</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Organizational Strategies for the Overwhelmed - how to manage your time, space, & priorities, to work smart, get results & be happy - <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006JD6RL8/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_til?tag=bitesizetrain-20&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=B006JD6RL8&adid=09H2BQKWRSE0VQB7JYZK&&ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joanncorley.com%2F"><span style="color: #0018eb; text-decoration: underline;">Kindle</span></a> - <a href="https://www.createspace.com/3714709"><span style="color: #0018eb; text-decoration: underline;">The Book</span></a> - <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/organizational-strategies-for-the-overwhelmed-joann-r-corley/1107954228?ean=2940013962743"><span style="color: #0018eb; text-decoration: underline;">Nook</span></a> - <a href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/joannrcorley"><span style="color: #0018eb; text-decoration: underline;">Audio Book</span></a> - <span style="color: #0018eb; text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.joanncorley.com/Org_Strat.html">The Seminar</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ever heard the expression or question, “how do you eat an elephant? “ The answer? – one bite at a time. Well that same principle applies when you’re feeling overwhelmed by a project, procrastinating, or having a hard time getting motivated. You’ve got to break it down into small manageable action steps.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Usually looking at, focusing on one step and one step only allows <b>emotional space</b> for you to become motivated and see the light of getting something done. Once you write out actionable, reasonable steps your emotions become <b>diffused</b> and your brain begins saying…”hey, I can do that.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Additionally, I employ is something called “the one minute challenge.” I challenge myself to work on one little thing, task, etc. for only one minute. I even use a kitchen timer.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The result?…I get focused on the “thing” enough to generate motivation to keep going. If it’s not enough, I say, “ok…just one more minute.” It’s like tricking yourself into gaining motivation in a fun way!</span></div>
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<strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Coaching Tip: Break it down, focus on the first small step and give yourself the one minute challenge!</span></strong><br />
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JoAnn Corleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17351862967107737286noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2706736985803090184.post-50180512822246292622013-02-10T13:16:00.001-05:002013-02-10T13:16:48.123-05:00What's The Real Skinny On Multi-tasking?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNL92TanTPO_9hB0jbU0KVXVf01VeUxUe2XP48D_S_UwZ_0_b6H9G4tE6qVEnChd7z-FYe9MNS66KvVUfvFBjwhY0ExKzy536r5ybsTjdHDmu2jf_kvtewjaW_Fze3ZGyINbFwiVAic6o/s1600/JugglingTime.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; font-family: Georgia, Century, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNL92TanTPO_9hB0jbU0KVXVf01VeUxUe2XP48D_S_UwZ_0_b6H9G4tE6qVEnChd7z-FYe9MNS66KvVUfvFBjwhY0ExKzy536r5ybsTjdHDmu2jf_kvtewjaW_Fze3ZGyINbFwiVAic6o/s200/JugglingTime.jpg" width="166" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Frequent Multitaskers Aren't Good At Multitasking, Study Shows</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you think you're good at multitasking, you're probably just fooling yourself and if you think multitasking is a time management skill, put that thought under review as well.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's the point of a new study in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0054402;jsessionid=1C499237E56E5530B7AB8E8046DA1D46" style="border: none; color: #6aa3b1; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">the journal PLOS One</a>, showing that people who<em style="border: none; font-style: italic !important; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">think</em> they are awesome at multitasking are also the ones who are pretty terrible at it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"One of the <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130123195101.htm" style="border: none; color: #6aa3b1; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">main reasons people multitask</a> is because they think they are good at it," study researcher David Sanbonmatsu, a psychology professor at the University of Utah, said in a statement. "But our study suggests people rarely are as good at multitasking as they think they are."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The study examined the multitasking ability of 310 college students. They were given multiple tests analyzing their multitasking skills, including their ability to use a cell phone while driving. They were also examined for personality traits such as impulsivity and the desire to seek sensations.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The researchers found some interesting associations. For one, people who actually<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0054402;jsessionid=1C499237E56E5530B7AB8E8046DA1D46" style="border: none; color: #6aa3b1; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">scored well on the multitasking tests</a> were the ones <em style="border: none; font-style: italic !important; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">least</em> likely to actually multitask.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Researchers also found that the more people talked on their cell phones while driving, the lower their ability to multitask.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"The people who multitask the most tend to be impulsive, sensation-seeking, overconfident of their multitasking abilities, and they tend to be less capable of multitasking," study researcher David Strayer, also a psychology professor at the university, said in the statement.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Past research has already shown that multitasking leads to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/13/multitasking-is-bad-for-you_n_925958.html" style="border: none; color: #6aa3b1; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">sub-par quality of work</a> and added stress. So why do we do it? Past research in <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1460-2466.2012.01641.x/abstract" style="border: none; color: #6aa3b1; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">the Journal of Communication</a> shows that it <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/01/multitasking-emotional-feel-better-_n_1467945.html" style="border: none; color: #6aa3b1; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">gives us an emotional boost</a>, even though it doesn't actually make us more productive.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"There's this myth among some people that <a href="http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/multitask.htm" style="border: none; color: #6aa3b1; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">multitasking makes them more productive</a>," Zheng Wang, assistant professor of communication at Ohio State University and the researcher of the Journal of Communication study, said in a statement. "But they seem to be misperceiving the positive feelings they get from multitasking. They are not being more productive -- they just feel more emotionally satisfied from their work."</span></div>
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