5 Email Strategies To Help Bring Your Inbox To Zero

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How does email affect your productivity?  Before you can answer that question, you need to ask yourself how much time you spend reading, composing and responding to email?  I used to feel overwhelmed with the amount of email and responses that I used to receive.  Mostly because those emails and in turn requests, were not … Read more

The 7 Words That Impacted My Productivity

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In the beginning of this year, I started on a project to write a productivity book.  Throughout the years, my responsibilities grew due to several restructurings.  I often noticed a difference between me and my colleagues.  Although they often felt overwhelmed, I quickly adapted to my new environment and remained productive.  This is what prompted … Read more

Is “I Don’t Feel Like It” A Reason For Procrastination? #5MinMotivation

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In this week’s #5MinMotivation the question I bring forth is, “do you need to be motivated in order to do something?  If you don’t feel like it, is that a good reason for procrastinating?    It only becomes procrastination when you have a specific intention and you push off accomplishing it.  There are people who wait … Read more

6 Triggers That Cause Procrastination

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Procrastination is the gap between what we intend to accomplish and what we actually accomplish.  Why do we procrastinate?  If it is something that we “intend” to do, shouldn’t it mean that it is important enough to want to accomplish it?  Yet, we procrastinate all the time. When the task has a deadline, we sometimes … Read more