Justin wrote this comment on my post Ask the Readers: What Productivity-Related Problem Do You Have? : I’ve found that not getting things done is sometimes almost as important as getting things done in productivity. When people request too much of me, I have a hard time telling them no without killing the relationship. Yet [ Read More ]
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James The art of nonfinishing (which Tim Ferriss mentioned in The 4-Hour Workweek) is a key to productivity. We are productive not because we accomplish many things, but because we accomplish the right things. If we accomplish many things but a [ Read More ]
Categories: Time management, Timesaver
I’m now reading an interesting book entitled Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstern. There are a lot of useful tips there about how to declutter our life and better organize it. I especially like the fact that it takes the organizing issue from the inside out, which means that it creates a system [ Read More ]
Saying “no” is one of the biggest timesavers in existence. It could spare you from unproductive commitments which may cost you hours, days, or even months of your time. Unfortunately, it may not be easy to say “no” when someone asks you for something. You may have a guilty feeling which makes you give a [ Read More ]
Following the development in personal productivity field could be cumbersome. There are simply too many good resources out there than what I could possibly follow through my feed reader. So what can I do? One solution I can think of is creating a “knowledge base” of personal productivity resources. The “knowledge base” should contain information from multiple [ Read More ]
I’ve written about how keyboard shortcuts can boost your productivity when working with computers. The next step is – of course – putting it into action. Most (if not all) popular applications have keyboard shortcuts to help you use them efficiently. Therefore, once you are inside the applications you can use those shortcuts to improve [ Read More ]
