How The Most Successful People Manage Their Time
here does the time go?" I say it. I'm sure you say it a lot. We seek work-life balance but it seems there's never enough time to get it all done. And yet we all know there are people who accomplish a lot more than we do in a day -- and they don't have magic powers. How do the most successful people manage their time? Laura Vanderkam talked to a number of those people (including productivity expert David Allen and…
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6 Things The Most Organized People Do Every Day
ur life is busy. Work/life balance is a challenge. You feel like you’re spreading yourself so thin that you’re starting to disappear. Most of us feel that way. But not all of us. The most organized people don't. As NYT bestselling author and neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explains, the VIP's he's met don't seem scattered and frantic. They're calm, cool and "in the moment", not juggling nine things and worried about being done by 7PM. It's not hard to figure out why:…
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How To Stop Being Lazy And Get More Done – 5 Expert Tips
ome days the to-do list seems bottomless. Just looking at it is exhausting. We all want to know how to stop being lazy and get more done. I certainly want the answer. So I decided to call a friend who manages to do this -- and more. Cal Newport impresses the heck out…
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How To Be Resilient: 8 Steps To Success When Life Gets Hard
tick with it!" "Be resilient!" "Never give up!" I see a lot of stuff about resilience, persistence and grit. What I don't see is a lot of legitimate info on how to actually increase those qualities. How can we be more resilient? How can we shrug off huge challenges in life, persist and -- in the end -- succeed? So I looked at the most difficult scenarios for insight. (Who needs resilience in easy situations, right?) When life and death is on the line,…
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How To Motivate Yourself: 3 Steps Backed By Science
u make goals... but then you procrastinate. You write a to-do list... but then you don't follow through. And this happens again and again and again. Seriously, what's the problem? Why are we so good at thinking of what to do but so terrible at actually doing those things? The problem is you're skipping an essential step. Here's what it is... The Mistake Every Productivity System Makes Productivity systems rarely take emotions into account. And feelings are a fundamental and unavoidable…
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Most Productive People: 6 Things They Do Every Day
er feel like you’re just not getting enough done? Know how many days per week you're actually productive? About 3: People work an average of 45 hours a week; they consider about 17 of those hours to be unproductive (U.S.: 45 hours a week; 16 hours are considered unproductive). We could all be accomplishing a lot more -- but then again, none of us wants to be a workaholic either. It'd be great to get tons done and have work/life balance.…
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Too Busy? 7 Ways To Increase Leisure Time, According To Science
eling overwhelmed? Are you constantly running from thing to thing but never getting it all done? When researchers survey people, they say they're too busy -- about everything. Too busy to make friends, date, sleep, have sex, to go on vacation... or to even have lunch. Via Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time: In surveys, people say they’re too busy to make friends outside the office, too busy to date, too busy to sleep, and…
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How To Motivate People – 4 Steps Backed By Science
ployees, spouses, kids -- what does it take to get people motivated so you don't have to nag them? Motivation is powerful. It predicts success better than intelligence, ability, or salary. Via The 100 Simple Secrets of Successful People: When tested in national surveys against such seemingly crucial factors as intelligence, ability, and salary, level of motivation proves to be a more significant component in predicting career success. While level of motivation is highly correlated with success, importantly, the source of motivation…
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