Tag: “Advice”

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We’re constantly striving to make the most out of our workday, but that doesn’t always mean working extra hours. If you find ways to boost your productivity, you work smarter instead of longer and harder. There are many small factors that influence productivity, from your work environment to your break habits. Did you know that the presence of plants has been found to increase worker productivity up to 15% or that taking a break to look at cute pictures can increase concentration tasks by 44%?

Although expressed in different ways, this is a frequently asked question by many FacileThings users:

Stephen Covey says in his famous book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People that we accomplish all that we do through delegation. We delegate either to time or to others. In the first case we are talking about efficiency, in the second one we are talking about effectiveness.

How all the things have changed in the last 20 years! We live in a society in which over 500 million daily tweets are published, more than 300 million uploaded photos to Facebook every day and over 300 hours of video to YouTube every minute. There is a lot of new information, and it comes to us very quickly.