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How To Spend Your Time … EVALUATE!

A few days ago, I reviewed a saved article that was written by Josh Patrick of Stage 2 Planning Partners. This article encouraged me to think about the entire philosophy surrounding time management. In much of my own experience and

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Hacking MS Word!

Rose Leadem is an online editorial assistant with Entrepreneur Magazine. She produced an article entitled, 8 Microsoft Word Hacks. The article was in the format of an infographic. I recently published an article about her infographics in an article entitled,

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Seven Productivity and Time-Saving Apps

Scott Huntington contributed an article to Inc. Magazine entitled, “Are You Always in a Time Crunch? Here Are 7 Productivity Apps That Can Help.” According to Scott, this story first appeared on The Muse, a Web destination with exciting job

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Summer … a good time to tweak your processes!

Does it seem to you like the work pace slows during summer months? Once Memorial Day arrives, many of your colleagues begin to take vacations, long weekends, summer Fridays and may adopt a slightly frenetic pace. Well, this may be

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Stuff More … into each hour!

Laura Vanderkam contributed an article to CBS MoneyWatch entitled, 7 Ways to Make Each Hour Count More. As we know, it is easy to find ourselves working nine or 10 hours a day on a regular basis and more than

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BUSY … but not productive!

Have you ever felt as though you have done a lot of work, but are not making real progress? Laura Vanderkam contributed an article to CBSMoneyWatch entitled, 6 Things That Feel Productive, But Aren’t. She said that while driving home

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Be More Efficient … at work or your profession!

Many researchers that study productivity publish their top three through 10 techniques to increase productivity at your job or profession. They also raise the questions are the number of hours that you invest at work and whether or not you

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What is Half-Work?

James Clear, introduced a term with which I was unfamiliar called “half-work.” Steven Covey also suggests that we determine what is urgent and what is important. So let’s examine three concepts: half-work, prioritization and scope vs schedule. James’ article entitled,

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Take Control of Your Inbox

This is harder and harder to do! You probably thought your email box was already bursting at the seams, but you have not seen anything yet. I do quite a bit of research in the general area of time management,

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Email Strategies … but be careful!

Email, to the extent that it is controlled, can be quite helpful. However, managing the high volume that most of us receive on a daily basis means that we may need to be more efficient in handling that volume. I

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