Have you ever worked for an hour only to realize you got nothing done? We're here to help! This week we are sharing our favourite productivity tips that help our team stay on track.
Time Management for Writers: Tips and StrategiesElaine Calloway
This document provides 6 steps for improving time management when writing. The first step is to identify your most productive time of day, when you feel least stressed and most motivated, and protect that time for writing. The second step is to disconnect from social media while writing. The third step is to keep a notebook nearby to write down any new ideas that come up so you can return your focus to writing. The fourth step is to use a timer to help maintain focus and structure writing sessions. The fifth step is to reward yourself with short breaks after productive writing intervals. The sixth and final step emphasizes the importance of continuing to write consistently.
Do these 5 actions when hit with inspirationWording Well
The document provides tips for capturing ideas when struck with inspiration. It recommends writing ideas down quickly before forgetting, developing the idea as much as possible while it's fresh, and editing it later. It also suggests recording yourself speaking your thoughts, repeating the main idea to yourself until you can record it, and keeping notes near the bath or shower in case you're hit with inspiration there.
Pinpoint, Prepare, and Perform with Social Media AnalyticsKatie Vojtko
November 14, 2012, Social Media Pittsburgh Seminar with Katie Vojtko:
Understand how to prepare, act, and measure in social media. Overview of appropriate metrics to both understand your network and report on your activity. Know what data to look for and when to tweak your posts for maximum effectiveness.
14 tips that can increase your productivity by 90%ProofHub
This document provides 14 tips to increase productivity by 90%. The tips include setting clear goals and measuring progress, taking short breaks for social media, scheduling downtime, recording ideas, planning each day, reducing meeting time, turning off notifications, setting deadlines, maintaining a work-life balance, saying no to distractions, being prepared when mobile, taking walking breaks, motivating yourself, and using technology to enhance efficiency. Following these tips can significantly improve focus and output.
This document provides tips for organizing your online life without feeling overwhelmed. It recommends finding your blogging rhythm as a morning or night person. It also suggests harnessing technology like email programs and virtual corkboards to structure your day by setting aside time for blogging, administrative tasks, content creation, and personal life. Additionally, it advises understanding time management by prioritizing goals, being efficient, and resisting multitasking. An editorial calendar can provide inspiration and accountability by planning content weeks or months in advance. Finally, it recommends checking email only a few times per day, keeping responses brief, and deleting emails once answered.
The document provides tips for employees who will be working from home, including setting up a dedicated workspace, maintaining a daily routine, creating a to-do list with scheduled tasks, communicating regularly with bosses and colleagues, and taking breaks during the work day to avoid burnout. It encourages finding a comfortable area to work, sticking to normal morning preparations, prioritizing tasks with allotted times, checking in with updates and changes, and balancing work with breaks away from screens.
7 tips to keep your energy levels high at workCPA Australia
Want to feel more energy throughout your work day? Here are seven strategies to get you started on your own personal energy project.
Read more:
https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2017/09/01/7-work-energy-tips
The document provides guidance on how to train your mind and work effectively by focusing on creating publishable documents, following certain rules and preconditions, leveraging social objects, and never stopping. It emphasizes continuing work even if it is not understood, recognized, or has been stolen. It also provides lists of tips related to conditioning oneself, problem solving, and achieving peak performance through various means.
Time Management for Writers: Tips and StrategiesElaine Calloway
This document provides 6 steps for improving time management when writing. The first step is to identify your most productive time of day, when you feel least stressed and most motivated, and protect that time for writing. The second step is to disconnect from social media while writing. The third step is to keep a notebook nearby to write down any new ideas that come up so you can return your focus to writing. The fourth step is to use a timer to help maintain focus and structure writing sessions. The fifth step is to reward yourself with short breaks after productive writing intervals. The sixth and final step emphasizes the importance of continuing to write consistently.
Do these 5 actions when hit with inspirationWording Well
The document provides tips for capturing ideas when struck with inspiration. It recommends writing ideas down quickly before forgetting, developing the idea as much as possible while it's fresh, and editing it later. It also suggests recording yourself speaking your thoughts, repeating the main idea to yourself until you can record it, and keeping notes near the bath or shower in case you're hit with inspiration there.
Pinpoint, Prepare, and Perform with Social Media AnalyticsKatie Vojtko
November 14, 2012, Social Media Pittsburgh Seminar with Katie Vojtko:
Understand how to prepare, act, and measure in social media. Overview of appropriate metrics to both understand your network and report on your activity. Know what data to look for and when to tweak your posts for maximum effectiveness.
14 tips that can increase your productivity by 90%ProofHub
This document provides 14 tips to increase productivity by 90%. The tips include setting clear goals and measuring progress, taking short breaks for social media, scheduling downtime, recording ideas, planning each day, reducing meeting time, turning off notifications, setting deadlines, maintaining a work-life balance, saying no to distractions, being prepared when mobile, taking walking breaks, motivating yourself, and using technology to enhance efficiency. Following these tips can significantly improve focus and output.
This document provides tips for organizing your online life without feeling overwhelmed. It recommends finding your blogging rhythm as a morning or night person. It also suggests harnessing technology like email programs and virtual corkboards to structure your day by setting aside time for blogging, administrative tasks, content creation, and personal life. Additionally, it advises understanding time management by prioritizing goals, being efficient, and resisting multitasking. An editorial calendar can provide inspiration and accountability by planning content weeks or months in advance. Finally, it recommends checking email only a few times per day, keeping responses brief, and deleting emails once answered.
The document provides tips for employees who will be working from home, including setting up a dedicated workspace, maintaining a daily routine, creating a to-do list with scheduled tasks, communicating regularly with bosses and colleagues, and taking breaks during the work day to avoid burnout. It encourages finding a comfortable area to work, sticking to normal morning preparations, prioritizing tasks with allotted times, checking in with updates and changes, and balancing work with breaks away from screens.
7 tips to keep your energy levels high at workCPA Australia
Want to feel more energy throughout your work day? Here are seven strategies to get you started on your own personal energy project.
Read more:
https://www.intheblack.com/articles/2017/09/01/7-work-energy-tips
The document provides guidance on how to train your mind and work effectively by focusing on creating publishable documents, following certain rules and preconditions, leveraging social objects, and never stopping. It emphasizes continuing work even if it is not understood, recognized, or has been stolen. It also provides lists of tips related to conditioning oneself, problem solving, and achieving peak performance through various means.
Leadership-life fit: 4 simple practices for mindfulnessdschon
The document provides 4 daily habits to increase mindfulness:
1. Set an intention for the day such as listening attentively or taking time for self-care. Check in periodically on honoring the intention.
2. Slow down and be mindful when eating by pausing before meals, listening to hunger cues, relaxing during eating, and only eating enjoyable foods.
3. Use reminders like notes or calendar alerts to remember intentions and create new patterns associated with mindful behaviors like deep breathing.
4. Work out with purpose by clarifying the intention, such as noticing bodily sensations, and including phases like warming up, cooling down, and resting awareness.
Earth's population is stuck-at-home due to Coronavirus. Only a lucky few are able to work-from-home. Rest are either being laid off or are put on unpaid leave for months.
Working from home is the only option left to safely work. Hundreds of people are left working from home for the first time, most of which are unsure how to do that.Numerous people associate remote work with leisure sleepy days including lounging around in pajamas.
Although working from home offers flexibility, it's still is an actual job that requires complete attention. Additionally, transitioning from an office work culture can be hard. Especially on your productivity and social life. However, take off your training wheels and read our advice on how to work-from-home effectively.
Well-being_class_materials for high school .pptxNatalia Rata
The document provides tips for maintaining well-being during periods without a fixed routine, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic. It recommends establishing regular habits like getting up, cleaning teeth, and eating breakfast. It also suggests planning your days and activities in advance, setting phone alarms to remind yourself, and limiting time spent on social media. The best times for activities requiring concentration are mornings for most people. Turning off notifications can help avoid distractions from calls and messages. Making exercise, nutrition, leisure, and other aspects of well-being a daily routine supports your well-being.
The document discusses how to find focus and tackle distractions. It identifies internal and external distractions and provides steps to eliminate distractions including eliminating options, setting mental stop signs with time limits, and taking control of time. Tips to remain focused include minimizing multitasking, making to-do lists, working offline, taking breaks, and finding a quiet place to work. An exercise is described to concentrate by visualizing blood flow through relaxation of muscles and focus on heartbeat.
Energy management is taking time management to the next step, It's finding the peaks and valleys of the day and exploiting them for all their worth. Here are 8 tips for maximizing your energy- and making your day more productive and fulfilling.
Workshop 6 SMART goal setting for stress reductionmarkdarransutton
Workshop 6/6. In this final workshop we explore how to set SMART goals for Stress reduction. Participants answer questions to look at the best methods or techniques for them to reduce stress, and prioritise them. SMART goals and their use is explained. Using an example participants then create their own smart goals based on their preferred method of stress reduction. Participants end the class with a full awareness of Stress, strategies and techniques for combating stress and the ability to create SMART goals.
http://www.markdsutton.com/
This document provides various productivity hacks for improving focus, managing distractions, exercising at work, optimizing vacation time, limiting multitasking, and creating effective to-do lists. Suggested hacks include blocking distracting websites, prioritizing tasks, breaking large projects into steps, taking "lightning workouts" at lunch, using vacation time to read and organize tasks, and focusing on one task at a time instead of multitasking. The document emphasizes that multitasking reduces productivity and advocates creating to-do lists centered around long-term goals with a daily focus area and achievements logged.
Productivity requires 100% focus. It can be quite difficult to give our tasks 100% focus when we have so many things that we have to manage. First, we have to make sure our brain is ready to be productive. Second, we have to make sure we do not allow distractions to take our focus away.
This document outlines three keys to improving language learning:
1. Controlling procrastination by understanding its causes, avoiding distractions, using tools like the Pomodoro technique, accepting breaks, and creating study habits.
2. Creating good study habits by starting small, planning cues/routines/rewards, and using accountability partners.
3. Practicing interleaving by mixing up learning methods, testing yourself, engaging with media in the target language, and rewarding yourself creatively.
This document outlines 8 ways to improve mental health: connecting with others, developing meaning and purpose, taking care of physical health through exercise, diet and sleep, meditation, yoga, relaxation techniques, limiting social media use, and journaling. It discusses each method in 1-2 paragraphs and provides examples such as using meditation apps, limiting social media to 30 minutes per day, keeping a gratitude journal, and writing a letter to one's inner child. The document concludes by noting that dedicating 15.1% of daily awake time (145 minutes) to these activities can benefit mental health.
Meditation, mind games, exercise, sleep, and a balanced diet can all help improve mental fitness by strengthening concentration, focus, memory, and overall brain health. Positive thinking, laughter, learning new skills, and engaging in hobbies can further enhance mental well-being by reducing stress and keeping the mind active. Maintaining good mental fitness requires regular practice of these strategies as well as avoiding unhealthy habits like excessive sleeping, junk food, smoking, and drinking.
The document provides 10 tips for maintaining mental well-being: get adequate sleep, eat healthy food, plan and prioritize tasks, listen to relaxing music, cut down on substances like alcohol, take breaks from technology, engage with others, join social groups, exercise both your body and mind, and seek help if overwhelmed. Maintaining good mental health requires small lifestyle changes in areas like nutrition, stress management, social connection, and self-care.
Look after yourself! Health & Wellness tips and ideas at home.Sarah Major
This document provides resources for staying healthy and active at home, including free fitness apps, YouTube workout videos, meditation apps, meal planning ideas, and tips for reducing anxiety. It lists popular workout apps like Daily Workouts Trainer and Centr that offer free trials. It also recommends YouTube channels like Blogilates, Planet Fitness, and The Body Coach for free at-home workouts. Suggestions are provided for meditation apps like Insight Timer, Headspace, and Calm. Grounding techniques and coping strategies for anxiety are also outlined. The document aims to support health and wellness during periods of staying at home.
This document provides tips for getting things done and being more productive. It recommends focusing on the most important tasks each day, setting aside time each day or week to work on big projects, waking up earlier to gain an extra productive hour, creating a "will not do" list to avoid distractions and time wasters, getting rid of distractions by turning off notifications and scheduling response times, adopting an "inbox zero" approach to email, making quick decisions using a "do it now" mantra, writing everything down rather than relying on memory, focusing on one task at a time through monotasking, using triggers to create habits and reminders, visualizing goals and steps to achieve them, allocating time based on a
The document discusses self-care for nonprofit professionals to prevent burnout. It summarizes the stages of burnout as passion driven, passion waning, passion challenged, and passion depleted. Common symptoms of burnout include emotional exhaustion, cynicism, fatigue, and lack of accomplishment. The presentation provides tips for self-care, such as protecting sleep, taking walking meetings, being intentional about solo time, and creating a self-care plan. It also describes an activity called the "Self-Care Cafe" where participants discuss different self-care activities and how to implement them. The overall message is that self-care requires intentional habit change to prevent burnout and refuel passion for social change work.
This document outlines 9 tips for mastering memory power. The tips involve taking short periods of time throughout the day to recall everything that was done in chronological order since the last recall session. Specifically, the tips recommend recalling activities after breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner for 2 minutes each, as well as spending 5 minutes recalling the full day's events at bedtime. If done consistently for a month, these daily memory exercises are said to remarkably improve one's natural memory over time.
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate and How To Increase Productivity.pptxTrieuNailsLondon
What is procrastination?
Procrastination is the avoidance, delaying, and postponing of doing a task. It is normal for humans to delay tasks at times. But when there is an intentional delay or habitual attitude of delaying tasks, it may incur threat, negative outcomes or even lead to serious mental health conditions.
As we navigate through the ebbs and flows of life, it is natural to experience moments of low motivation and dwindling passion for our goals.
However, it is important to remember that this is a common hurdle that can be overcome with the right strategies in place.
In this guide, we will explore ways to rekindle the fire within you and stay motivated towards your aspirations.
Procrastination is a common challenge that many individuals face when it comes to completing tasks and achieving goals. It can hinder productivity and lead to feelings of stress and frustration.
However, with the right strategies and mindset, it is possible to overcome procrastination and increase productivity.
In this article, we will explore the causes of procrastination, how to recognize the signs of procrastination in oneself, and effective strategies for overcoming procrastination and boosting productivity.
Leadership-life fit: 4 simple practices for mindfulnessdschon
The document provides 4 daily habits to increase mindfulness:
1. Set an intention for the day such as listening attentively or taking time for self-care. Check in periodically on honoring the intention.
2. Slow down and be mindful when eating by pausing before meals, listening to hunger cues, relaxing during eating, and only eating enjoyable foods.
3. Use reminders like notes or calendar alerts to remember intentions and create new patterns associated with mindful behaviors like deep breathing.
4. Work out with purpose by clarifying the intention, such as noticing bodily sensations, and including phases like warming up, cooling down, and resting awareness.
Earth's population is stuck-at-home due to Coronavirus. Only a lucky few are able to work-from-home. Rest are either being laid off or are put on unpaid leave for months.
Working from home is the only option left to safely work. Hundreds of people are left working from home for the first time, most of which are unsure how to do that.Numerous people associate remote work with leisure sleepy days including lounging around in pajamas.
Although working from home offers flexibility, it's still is an actual job that requires complete attention. Additionally, transitioning from an office work culture can be hard. Especially on your productivity and social life. However, take off your training wheels and read our advice on how to work-from-home effectively.
Well-being_class_materials for high school .pptxNatalia Rata
The document provides tips for maintaining well-being during periods without a fixed routine, such as during the COVID-19 pandemic. It recommends establishing regular habits like getting up, cleaning teeth, and eating breakfast. It also suggests planning your days and activities in advance, setting phone alarms to remind yourself, and limiting time spent on social media. The best times for activities requiring concentration are mornings for most people. Turning off notifications can help avoid distractions from calls and messages. Making exercise, nutrition, leisure, and other aspects of well-being a daily routine supports your well-being.
The document discusses how to find focus and tackle distractions. It identifies internal and external distractions and provides steps to eliminate distractions including eliminating options, setting mental stop signs with time limits, and taking control of time. Tips to remain focused include minimizing multitasking, making to-do lists, working offline, taking breaks, and finding a quiet place to work. An exercise is described to concentrate by visualizing blood flow through relaxation of muscles and focus on heartbeat.
Energy management is taking time management to the next step, It's finding the peaks and valleys of the day and exploiting them for all their worth. Here are 8 tips for maximizing your energy- and making your day more productive and fulfilling.
Workshop 6 SMART goal setting for stress reductionmarkdarransutton
Workshop 6/6. In this final workshop we explore how to set SMART goals for Stress reduction. Participants answer questions to look at the best methods or techniques for them to reduce stress, and prioritise them. SMART goals and their use is explained. Using an example participants then create their own smart goals based on their preferred method of stress reduction. Participants end the class with a full awareness of Stress, strategies and techniques for combating stress and the ability to create SMART goals.
http://www.markdsutton.com/
This document provides various productivity hacks for improving focus, managing distractions, exercising at work, optimizing vacation time, limiting multitasking, and creating effective to-do lists. Suggested hacks include blocking distracting websites, prioritizing tasks, breaking large projects into steps, taking "lightning workouts" at lunch, using vacation time to read and organize tasks, and focusing on one task at a time instead of multitasking. The document emphasizes that multitasking reduces productivity and advocates creating to-do lists centered around long-term goals with a daily focus area and achievements logged.
Productivity requires 100% focus. It can be quite difficult to give our tasks 100% focus when we have so many things that we have to manage. First, we have to make sure our brain is ready to be productive. Second, we have to make sure we do not allow distractions to take our focus away.
This document outlines three keys to improving language learning:
1. Controlling procrastination by understanding its causes, avoiding distractions, using tools like the Pomodoro technique, accepting breaks, and creating study habits.
2. Creating good study habits by starting small, planning cues/routines/rewards, and using accountability partners.
3. Practicing interleaving by mixing up learning methods, testing yourself, engaging with media in the target language, and rewarding yourself creatively.
This document outlines 8 ways to improve mental health: connecting with others, developing meaning and purpose, taking care of physical health through exercise, diet and sleep, meditation, yoga, relaxation techniques, limiting social media use, and journaling. It discusses each method in 1-2 paragraphs and provides examples such as using meditation apps, limiting social media to 30 minutes per day, keeping a gratitude journal, and writing a letter to one's inner child. The document concludes by noting that dedicating 15.1% of daily awake time (145 minutes) to these activities can benefit mental health.
Meditation, mind games, exercise, sleep, and a balanced diet can all help improve mental fitness by strengthening concentration, focus, memory, and overall brain health. Positive thinking, laughter, learning new skills, and engaging in hobbies can further enhance mental well-being by reducing stress and keeping the mind active. Maintaining good mental fitness requires regular practice of these strategies as well as avoiding unhealthy habits like excessive sleeping, junk food, smoking, and drinking.
The document provides 10 tips for maintaining mental well-being: get adequate sleep, eat healthy food, plan and prioritize tasks, listen to relaxing music, cut down on substances like alcohol, take breaks from technology, engage with others, join social groups, exercise both your body and mind, and seek help if overwhelmed. Maintaining good mental health requires small lifestyle changes in areas like nutrition, stress management, social connection, and self-care.
Look after yourself! Health & Wellness tips and ideas at home.Sarah Major
This document provides resources for staying healthy and active at home, including free fitness apps, YouTube workout videos, meditation apps, meal planning ideas, and tips for reducing anxiety. It lists popular workout apps like Daily Workouts Trainer and Centr that offer free trials. It also recommends YouTube channels like Blogilates, Planet Fitness, and The Body Coach for free at-home workouts. Suggestions are provided for meditation apps like Insight Timer, Headspace, and Calm. Grounding techniques and coping strategies for anxiety are also outlined. The document aims to support health and wellness during periods of staying at home.
This document provides tips for getting things done and being more productive. It recommends focusing on the most important tasks each day, setting aside time each day or week to work on big projects, waking up earlier to gain an extra productive hour, creating a "will not do" list to avoid distractions and time wasters, getting rid of distractions by turning off notifications and scheduling response times, adopting an "inbox zero" approach to email, making quick decisions using a "do it now" mantra, writing everything down rather than relying on memory, focusing on one task at a time through monotasking, using triggers to create habits and reminders, visualizing goals and steps to achieve them, allocating time based on a
The document discusses self-care for nonprofit professionals to prevent burnout. It summarizes the stages of burnout as passion driven, passion waning, passion challenged, and passion depleted. Common symptoms of burnout include emotional exhaustion, cynicism, fatigue, and lack of accomplishment. The presentation provides tips for self-care, such as protecting sleep, taking walking meetings, being intentional about solo time, and creating a self-care plan. It also describes an activity called the "Self-Care Cafe" where participants discuss different self-care activities and how to implement them. The overall message is that self-care requires intentional habit change to prevent burnout and refuel passion for social change work.
This document outlines 9 tips for mastering memory power. The tips involve taking short periods of time throughout the day to recall everything that was done in chronological order since the last recall session. Specifically, the tips recommend recalling activities after breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner for 2 minutes each, as well as spending 5 minutes recalling the full day's events at bedtime. If done consistently for a month, these daily memory exercises are said to remarkably improve one's natural memory over time.
Why Procrastinators Procrastinate and How To Increase Productivity.pptxTrieuNailsLondon
What is procrastination?
Procrastination is the avoidance, delaying, and postponing of doing a task. It is normal for humans to delay tasks at times. But when there is an intentional delay or habitual attitude of delaying tasks, it may incur threat, negative outcomes or even lead to serious mental health conditions.
As we navigate through the ebbs and flows of life, it is natural to experience moments of low motivation and dwindling passion for our goals.
However, it is important to remember that this is a common hurdle that can be overcome with the right strategies in place.
In this guide, we will explore ways to rekindle the fire within you and stay motivated towards your aspirations.
Procrastination is a common challenge that many individuals face when it comes to completing tasks and achieving goals. It can hinder productivity and lead to feelings of stress and frustration.
However, with the right strategies and mindset, it is possible to overcome procrastination and increase productivity.
In this article, we will explore the causes of procrastination, how to recognize the signs of procrastination in oneself, and effective strategies for overcoming procrastination and boosting productivity.
Inspire: Igniting the Spark of Human Potentialgauravingole9
Inspire: Igniting the Spark of Human Potential
Inspiration is the force that propels individuals from ordinary to extraordinary. It transforms ideas into innovations, dreams into realities, and individuals into icons. This article delves into the multifaceted nature of inspiration, exploring its sources such as nature, art, personal experiences, and the achievements of others, and its profound impact on personal growth, societal progress, and cultural evolution. Through the lens of historical figures and timeless quotes, we uncover how inspiration fuels creativity, drives societal change, and ignites the spark of human potential.
You may be stressed about revealing your cancer diagnosis to your child or children.
Children love stories and these often provide parents with a means of broaching tricky subjects and so the ‘The Secret Warrior’ book was especially written for CANSA TLC, by creative writer and social worker, Sally Ann Carter.
Find out more:
https://cansa.org.za/resources-to-help-share-a-parent-or-loved-ones-cancer-diagnosis-with-a-child/
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2. 1.
Understand when you are most
productive during the day.
Identify hours in the day when you are most alert
and schedule your tasks during times when you're
at your peak performance.
3. 2.
Be intentional with your distractions.
Commit to specific hours for social media usage
during the day. If you are an avid social media
user, we recommend using social media during
the afternoon, after your concentration periods,
or once during the evening (several hours before
bedtime).
4. 3.
Meditate once a day in the morning
for 10-30 minutes.
Do not check emails or social media first thing in
the morning, it will clutter your mind. Meditating
daily allows you to focus on your tasks better.
5. 4.
Run personal productivity sprints.
Set the timer for 1 hour, identify the tasks you
want to complete, remove distractions (breaks,
social media, alerts, and music), and just work.
After the hour, take a break and evaluate how
you did against your goals.
6. 5.
Take breaks.
Remember to stand up every hour and move a
little bit to refresh your body and allow you to
keep your energy up throughout the day.
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