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Productivity Buster: Mistaking Activity for Accomplishment

Productivity Buster: Mistaking Activity for Accomplishment

Posted on 28. Jun, 2009 by Guest Author.

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by Sandra P. Martini.
A former client recently contacted me about working together again and, in asking a few questions about what she’s been up to, etc., I realized that for all the work she’s been doing (and she works a lot), she hasn’t been “done-ing” anything.
Now while “done-ing” certainly isn’t a word (yet), it does [...]

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Ultra-Simple 3-Step Productivity System for Getting Amazing Things Done

Ultra-Simple 3-Step Productivity System for Getting Amazing Things Done

Posted on 02. Jun, 2009 by Guest Author.

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Guest post by Leo Babauta.
You’ve read a bunch of different productivity posts, blogs, books, and magazine articles — admit it — and yet it’s always so complicated. You just want to accomplish great things, without all the fuss.
And while there are many great systems out there — GTD, Zen To Done, Extreme GTD, The Power [...]

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Get Off Your Butt: 16 Ways to Get Motivated When You’re in a Slump

Posted on 13. May, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

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Guest post by Leo Babauta, owner of Zen Habits.
Even the most motivated of us — you, me, Tony Robbins — can feel unmotivated at times. In fact, sometimes we get into such a slump that even thinking about making positive changes seems too difficult.
But it’s not hopeless: with some small steps, baby ones in fact, [...]

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Systems: Small Changes Lead to Big Improvements

Posted on 20. Mar, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

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 Guest post by Beth Schneider
My personal trainer, Laura Mak is awesome. She comes up with fun and interesting ways to do boring exercises, like lunges. The other day as I was lunging and bending while holding on to a pair of 10 pound weights, I found myself losing my balance.
After watching me flail around, she [...]

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Run Your Business From Home? Here’s 10 Ways to Be More Productive by Ali Brown

Posted on 13. Feb, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

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Guest post by Ali Brown
Ah, working at home sweet home… Visions of leisurely days, conference calls in comfy sweatpants, increased productivity with fewer interruptions. But the distinctions between work life and home life soon blur. You really should throw some laundry in the wash before you write that proposal. You have an hour before a [...]

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5 Solutions Are Easier (and Better) Than One

Posted on 22. Jan, 2009 by mompreneur.

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I’ve been planning to homeschool my daughter when she “officially” reaches the age of requirement in California (age 6), but had kept her in preschool primarily so I could get some work done.  I figured that when she was school-age she would be able to work on her school work and/or keep quiet while I [...]

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The Power of Less by Leo Babauta: Zen for the rest of us

Posted on 15. Jan, 2009 by Elizabeth Potts Weinstein.

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The Power of Less: the fine art of limiting yourself to the essential … in business and in life, by Leo Babauta, founder of ZenHabits.net, is a down-to-earth, peaceful explanation of how to achieve and experience more by having and doing less.  Seems like a crazy idea, but Leo was able to radically change his [...]

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