Business Insight Zone

You, too, can be a happy busy-beaver with these tips!

I started this week with a productivity tip that helps you use your “Sent Items” e-mail box to keep up with your projects. Here, I’ve collected ten more of the best productivity-oriented posts I’ve written this year.

• 60 weekend minutes that will make your week go better. — In 60 minutes between now and Monday morning, you can carry out these half-dozen tasks to reduce clutter, refresh your personal network, and guarantee a more productive week to come.
• The Magic Hour — If you’re up for it, shift gears and use a second hour this weekend to dive deep into your most important work. You may be surprised at the results.
• Self-management tip: change verb tenses. — Use this simple trick of language to reinforce a personal bias for action, the trait that has marked leaders from U.S. Grant to Winston Churchill to Bill Gates.
• ONE thing DONE. — Multitasking is poisonous to your career. This is the antidote.
• Self-management tip: explode the stack. — Use a simple paper-management technique to wrangle your projects into line.
• Give yourself the gift of calm. — Finding ways to relax in your job doesn’t just help you feel better, it helps you work better.
• Down the rabbit-hole. — How to avoid the conversation (well-intended or otherwise) that could derail half your day.
• What is it time to let go of? — This could be either a simple uncluttering trick or a deeper philosophical investigation. Your choice.
• Make fewer decisions to have better self-control. — Every day, we confront ourselves with more choices than we can handle. Pare down your brain’s workload, and your ability to fuction will improve.
• You don’t need better technology. — Pencil and paper are high-enough technology . . . when you use them for deeper thinking.

I hope that you find these helpful — and that you’ll share tips of your own (or links to your favorites) in the comments.

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