Stress-free productivity does exist

I am not a fan of the tradition of making New Year’s resolutions. For two reasons. Firstly, because resolutions do not work. They are actually just wishes or dreams with no target date. They are usually defined in such a generic way (“enjoy life more”, “learn something new”) that do not involve any specific action you should take to achieve them. It is like trying to win the lottery without purchasing any ticket. You know it’s not going to happen.

Here I leave you something to think about this holidays…

The smartest way to improve any aspect of a business (sales, costs, customer satisfaction, etc.) is to measure the current results related to that aspect, use the data to infer a strategy that may improve performance, implement that strategy and measure again to determine whether we were right or not. Surely we will fail occasionally before finding the correct clue, but having actual data on which support our decision is critical. Build, measure and learn. This is the mantra of The Lean Startup entrepreneurship method, so fashionable lately.

FacileThings has been accepted in the new Evernote App Center, where Evernote publishes independent applications that seamlessly integrate with its platform and provide added value to its users.

Getting things done is usually seen as an individual process and it’s easy to picture the young, intelligent entrepreneur developing systems in their life to facilitate completing tasks in their day to day life whilst growing their business to the highest level.