Productivity Blog

This pandemic has been rough! Most of us have been struggling to be productive, getting less done but spending more hours "working." If you're like me, you've lost several hours to irrelevant emails, internet rabbit trails and "research." There's nothing wrong with little breaks from work (actually these are necessary), but if you get to the end of your day and find you've been watching cat videos the whole time, there's a problem.
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The Pareto Principle is a simple concept with huge implications for productivity.Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist, born in 1848, noticed that 20% of his pea plants produced 80% of his pea pods. He continued to notice this ratio in life and...
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Here's how I use The Weekly Time Blocking Planner. Each week has two parts: The Week Planning part and the Notes & Review part. The Week Planning Part This shows the entire week in one page spread.I sit down on Sunday...
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