As a global business consultant, I travel. A lot. And I must admit that, at first, I wasn’t very good at it. Being in multiple countries with multiple time zones in just a few days’ time meant that I needed to be really organized. After a few missed meetings, late night appointments and near-missed flights, …
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How much can 5 minutes a day affect you? After all, when you scroll on the social media feed, half an hour could easily have passed and you’d still be scrolling. While you’re on the couch after a long tiring day, 5 minutes will feel too short to relax. When you are engrossed in your …
Working from home can be very difficult as the lack of structure, the need for self accountability and the constant distractions can be so overwhelming that sometimes we find ourselves being unproductive for days. Having been self employed for over a decade and working from home at my convenience, rather than as a need …
Each week you’ve got things to get done whether it’s at home or at the office. The list exists and so often it only gets longer with little checked off. Most of the people I coach suffer from this, a list that just keeps growing. When they look back at a day they realize that …
Wouldn’t it be great to go home from work each day feeling as though you’d accomplished everything you wanted? Many times we start our days with energy and enthusiasm only to get pulled off track and make only sporadic progress. This can leave us feeling frustrated, discouraged, and can give us a sense that we …
While Britain’s decision to leave the EU may have been taken from an insular perspective, it has had reverberations all around the world. This was reflected by a sharp decline in the value of the Euro in the wake of the vote, while equity markets such as the DAX and the SMI conceded 6.82% and …
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While excessive meetings and non-stop emails and calls make you feel productive, you can still be a valuable employee while visiting a foreign country and taking some time off. And although employees are taught that working more hours is the most productive approach, many researches have shown that it’s quite the opposite. Simply put – …
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If you’re feeling a little bit worn down by your daily routine, you’re not alone. Technology and other trends have made it easier for work and other responsibilities to intrude into time that once was solely our own. While you’ll never entirely be free of e-mails from the office, texts from your child’s school, and …
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You’ve probably read a lot of morning routine posts by now. They all tell you to do the same things: wake up earlier, don’t look at screens, make to-do lists. What they don’t tell you is how to change your behavior to establish a new morning routine, and why those new habits are going to …
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A business organization is a complex mechanism with many moving parts that determine the direction in which the company is heading. If you feel that daily tasks are more burdensome than productive, then something is amiss. The goal should be to work smarter, not longer. So, take a step back and a critical look at …
The average American spends 3.2 hours per day on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Vine, and Tinder. That’s 3.2 hours per day—1,168 hours per year—that each of us could be spending on activities, hobbies, passions, and dreams that give our lives more fulfillment, meaning, purpose, and value. That’s 3.2 hours a day …
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The only things we can truly control in life are our feelings, thoughts, and behaviors. If we know about how our minds work, we can be intentional about influencing our own thoughts and feelings. We can evaluate reality more clearly, make better decisions, and improve our ability to achieve goals, thus gaining greater agency, the …
A truly “polemicized” topic is to increase productivity, and the eternal struggle is how, right? There are many tools and techniques out there that promise a lot for your productivity and organization skills, but none of them, can truly be a match to mind mapping. Mind mapping is a great technique for organizing thoughts and …
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The concept of work-life balance is an interesting one, not least because it seems to polarize opinion in modern society. While some believe that attaining a positive work-life balance is the key to happy and productive existence, for example, others claim that this relatively new idea is particularly vague and lacking in genuine substance. A …
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A daunting yet rewarding task is to run a small business. Many questions cross the minds of the management, especially when it comes to spending on resources and optimal use of technology. A proper awareness coupled with the right tool does the trick. This increases the productivity as much as possible. These days, there are …
