Examples of Productivity Ideas Tools and Blogs

If you are looking for ways to increase your productivity, have a look at these entries. Each is either a product that will increase your productivity or a blog post with great ideas to help you get more productive.

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Productivity is just one of those qualities that we all yearn for. As freelancers we have to be productive in order to get projects done before the deadline approaches. The more productive we can be, the more money we earn — it’s a simple equation. Here are 10 Productivity Tips That Work Surprisingly Well.

Looking for ways to increase your productivity? Do more things in a faster manner, and with better output? Here’s a list of my recommended strategies and tips to increase your productivity. Each of them has its own set of contexts where it works the best in, so apply them accordingly. Here is how to boost Your Productivity in 50 Ways

See Your Success with MindManager. Create visual mind maps to capture ideas, plan, and communicate with others more effectively. Work smarter, be creative-and get more done in less time-revolutionize the way you work.

I’ve been a bit bottlenecked recently with some of my posts. I’ve been stewing over A Special Theory of Productivity and trying to figure out the best way to present it. Meanwhile, another post that I’m working on also needs some preluding explanation. This post is related to both of those.  I’m a huge fan of heat maps, and here recently I’ve started to think about productivity in terms of heat maps, as well. How Heatmapping Your Productivity Can Make You More Productive

With the internet being ubiquitous, you can easily hire someone from the developing countries to do work at a very low price. You can also get professional work done, such as design, photography, etc at a reasonable price. Try Odesk, Go Free Lance and Elance.

Assess – Decide – Do is a simple life management framework. Emerged from some limitations of productivity methodologies like GTD, and constructed with a flexible approach, ADD comes handy when you face difficult or pressuring contexts in any areas if your life. At its core, ADD is overwhelmingly simple, it’s entirely up to you to create your very own implementation in whatever area you want to improve. Using Assess – Decide – Do For Relationships.

Use productivity software tools. This site has 2,307 products for Office Add-Ins, Personal Finance, Personal Info Managers, Spreadsheets and more.

Putting it simply, time boxing is the most effective time management tool that I know of. Even if you already know and use it to some extent, there is a good chance that you can make it even better with some of the tips that follow. For those new to it, time boxing is simply fixing a time period to work on a task or group of tasks. Instead of working on a task until it’s done, you commit to work on it for a specific amount of time instead. Here are 15 Time Boxing Strategies to Get Things Done.

Brett Kelly started The Cranking Widgets Blog in December of 2006 after reading Getting Things Done by David Allen. His newfound excitement about personal productivity was the primary reason for starting this website: a way to communicate little nuggets of wisdom and whatnot to whomever on the old Internet wanted to read them. In November, 2008 Brett decided that he had said everything he could on the topic of productivity and he handed the reigns over to me.

First, there’s the mega-goal approach. Made famous in business by Built to Last author, James C. Collins, who believed the greatest companies all had what he termed “big, hairy, audacious goals” or BHAGs. Other expressions come in the form of classic saying like, “if you shoot for the stars, but land on the moon, that’s still pretty impressive.” Or, it’s gotta be worth the effort. Read more in Goalsetting Smackdown: Big Hairy Audacious vs Baby Steps

Counterdependence: The act of overcompensating as a result of feeling very dependent and subconsciously moving in the opposing direction. Think “teenagers”. Once teenagers figure out the rules, they begin to look for creative ways to break them as a way to assert their independence. Adults do the same thing. You can choose to funnel that dynamic into productive counterdependence. Boost Creativity: Make Rules To Be Broken.

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