What exactly does it mean to shorten your year to get more done? Here’s the basic idea – take what you normally think of doing in a year; a big project, making changes (habits, etc), and now compress that to 10-12 weeks. Now, that doesn’t mean that you will magically get things done that take…
Getting started with Evernote can be a bit daunting, but once you’ve seen how to use tags and notebooks you’ll be able to sort and store a huge amount of information and easily recall it in just a few seconds if your system is configured correctly. Setting Up Evernote Now, if you’re looking for…
Habits. Most of us probably think of something negative when we hear that word. Maybe we think about eating unhealthy food or trying to exercise more. However, habits are a powerful tool that we can use to change how we operate in our day to day life so that we get more done, are more…
Setting up recurring tasks in Todoist is very easy and is a powerful way to get even more out of this productivity program. If you’re not sure where to start, check out the short video above to see exactly how it’s done. You have a ton of options when setting up recurring tasks –…
Ok – we’re not going to really cover 11 people…but I think it’s important for all of us to look at successful people and learn from what they do that RIGHT. We can look around and identify habits that lead to productivity but sometimes the results can be surprising. I think that at least one…
There’s a lot of methods that I’ve integrated into my productivity style over the past several months. However, I recently read a book titled “The One Thing” that had one very important piece of advice (and several other very good points): What’s the One Thing I can do, such that by doing it, everything…
We all “know” that time management is important and something that we should be good at. We work at improving our own time management and try to help or push teams to increase their management of the time allotted for projects or tasks. However, there’s more benefits to being a good time manager than just…
Batching your tasks is a great way to stay focused and avoid that dreadful feeling of impending burnout from being pulled in too many directions at once. This happens when you start trying to go down a list and complete as much as possible without paying attention to which “area” each task belongs to….
I’ve been a big fan of having music in the background while working for several years. It’s not an “always” on type of thing – sometimes I need to have a very quiet background for thought intensive tasks…however, about 50-60 percent of the time I find it really helpful to have either some low volume…
Saving files to your Todoist account is something that really comes in handy! Whether you’re uploading a picture, saving a text file, or adding a spreadsheet, there’s just times that putting it directly into your task will save you time and keep things organized. However, it turns out that you can’t do this if…
