How to Boost Productivity

Concentrating in an Open Plan Office

Who here has ever tried to concentrate while on the phone in a restaurant? It sucks, but a lot of the open office design plans are kind of heading in the same direction. You’re right next to your fellow coworkers and they’re there on the phone and you’re trying to concentrate. Your thoughts are going a million miles an hour and you’re trying to work out how you can get this project and task finished, but all you can hear is them talking to their partner about whatever the argument they had the other night. So many people have concentration issues and I can attest to it myself. When I first started the business, we had a very small office. We had four of us crammed in there and it was like we’re on top of each other. Heaven forbid someone drops a fart. We all had to go on a quick smoke or break because we’d be dead. It was quite a small arrangement. But you got to do what you got to do, and so we had to work with that environment.

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You’ve got yourself 50 dollary-dos, and you’re trying to work out what you can do with it to improve your productivity. There are so many things that you can do, and we’re going to discuss some of those. Shelve the 50 bucks, shuck it back in your wallet just for a moment, and then we’ll get to whatever you think you should be spending that money on to start with. 

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It’s taken me a bit to admit this, but I’m a polyphasic sleeper. It’s 2:30 in the afternoon and I’m ready for a nap. (more…)

Are Your Conversations Always About Business?

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Why Have a Hobby?

If you are in business, you’ll want to make sure you have some hobbies and interests outside of the business because you will become addicted to the business in such a way that’s so unhealthy, you won’t know what’s coming and going. You’ll want to make sure you’ve got hobbies.

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How did you feel when you woke up this morning? What we’re going to talk about is sleep, why that’s important, why you’re more productive with more sleep and not too much sleep and not too little sleep that it’s not enough sleep.

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How to Manage Your Business Plans and Projects With Ease

Let’s talk about project management software. Now, if you’re not familiar with what it this is software that’s going to make managing anything in your business a little bit easier. As soon as your business has more than one person, or you’re doing work for more than one client, you’re going to find that project management software is going to make your life a lot easier. In its most basic form, it’s a list of different tasks.

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The Most Important Key to Stay Ahead of Your Competitors
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Can you believe we’re 10 days into the new year? It happened so quickly. I’m a stronger believer that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes.

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Top 10 Proven Strategies to Increase Business Productivity

There are only 24 hours in a day and you want to make every minute count. In a competitive business market every business owner has to be smart. Running your own company is no easy task, it takes guts and an unsurpassed level of determination. Each and every business wants to operate at its optimum efficiency. However, for most people to reach this optimal level of productivity they need to instate a trial and error methodology. What works for one may not necessarily work for the other.

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