The document presents five simple tips to enhance personal productivity, including making a to-do list, using a working book to record ideas and notes, marking important emails for follow-up, writing ideas immediately, and leveraging mobile technology for time management. These strategies aim to streamline tasks and maximize efficiency in daily activities. The tips emphasize the importance of organization and immediate action to avoid losing valuable ideas and opportunities.

1. Simple Tips to Improve Our Performance
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2. Make a “To Do List”
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One of the reasons why we do nothing is
because we do not know what to do.
or…
We forget what we want to do.

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So, make sure we know & do not forget what we
want to do by writing it in a “To Do List”

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With “To Do List”, we will have a tool to
monitor all of our activity plan and check
whether they are already done or not.

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So, we will be helped to ensure that all plan
are completely done.

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And believe me, with the same 24 hours in a day,
we will be able to do more things.

8. Using a “Working Book”
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We need to write because our brain capacity is
having limitation & can not remember everything.

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And remember, when we were in school we
always have a writing book & write everything
that we think important on that book.

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If having a writing book as our working book is
a good behavior, why today we are not continue
doing it ?

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In our working book we can write our “to do list”

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Or, in our working book we can write anything
and use it as a place for our idea repository, so we
will be able to see it again later
in the future.

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Working book also very helpful when we are
attending a meeting, because we can write
any important note & idea that related
with the meeting on it.

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Please do not try to attend any meeting without
bring a working book or other note tools. If you
attend a meeting & bring nothing, it could be
mean you are not ready for the meeting.

16. Mark all e-mail that need our further action
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17. Today, email is very important, since it’s already
become the most frequently used channel to
communicate with our colleagues or customers.
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18. So, it is important to do not miss any important
email and follow up it if needed.
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19. To be able to follow up and do not miss any
important things, we can mark the email and
re-check it again later to ensure that
everything is done.
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20. Immediately write & record our idea
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Sometimes, when we are in the bus (or in the train, or in
a queuing) we are thinking about a very good idea
and planning to do it later.

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But, when we have time to do it, we forget what
the idea is. And we force our brain & spend much
time to remember it again.

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This condition makes us lose the opportunity to
do a good thing & improve our productivity.

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We can avoid this condition by writing the idea
immediately when we are thinking about it.

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By writing & record our idea, we will have an idea
repository that will prevent us from forgetting &
losing the idea.

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Later, when we have time to execute the idea, we
can open again and read what we have written
before and start doing it with no missing
information.

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… and get the advantages & the objectives of the
idea and improve our performance day by day.

28. Go mobile
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The more time we have to work, the more jobs
we can complete.

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With the fix 24 hours in a day, one of the ways to
have more extra time to work is by enabling
“any time” & “any where” working.

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At the same time, we also able to optimize
our time utilization by doing more
productive activities in our
current idle time.

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With today technology, it’s easy to optimize our
idle time and enabling “any time” & “any where”
working by using mobile applications.

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For the above 4 tips, I advice us to do it also
using mobile applications and
“Go Mobile”
* For tips #2, please remind that beside doing it in a mobile
apps, having the real offline working book is a must.

34. 5To be able to “Go Mobile”, there are many
mobile applications that can be used to help us doing
the above tips.

35. That’s all that I can share at this time.
Hopefully these simple tips are useful for Us.