Tag: “Advice”

On many occasions, not knowing how to say no can be one of the greatest enemies of your personal productivity.

Most people struggle with procrastination at some point, usually around tasks that we hate to do. Even the most motivated individuals will have certain responsibilities that they just can’t stand doing, and often wind up leaving them for last. Here are some tips for finding your motivation and checking these dreaded chores off your list.

Productivity is not a question of how much time a day you spend working. Sometimes, a day in which you’ve worked for just three or four hours can end up being much more productive than a day in which you’ve been trying to work for more than eight. Have you ever experienced this?

Visiting the coffee maker for the sixth time today? Sometimes, you’ve just got to get things done on deadline, or maybe you’ve got a big evaluation coming up and want to prove to your manager you deserve that raise.

Have you ever tried to define the concept of productivity? If we take it as an economic term, an organization or a country is productive when it effectively uses all its resources, capital, materials, land, labor, information, and energy in the production of goods and services. If we’re talking about personal productivity, we’re still close to that definition. To make it as simple as possible, it means using all our resources (mainly time) to produce the best results with our work.