Do you struggle with balancing your need to be responsive with your (equally important) need to protect focus time in your day? Remember: your great work requires focus and attention. It’s important to build this time into your day - and protect it as you would any other meeting or appointment in your calendar. Here are three strategies you can use to help you avoid slipping down the spiral of distraction.
If you’re working hard but don’t feel you’re making progress, there’s a good chance you’re slipping into a common productivity challenge: taking on too much. It's tempting to want to do it all. But this dilutes our effort, wastes our time, and creates the frustration of carrying countless unfinished tasks. If you can relate but don’t know where to start, it's time to try a new approach.
Are you trying to settle on a new approach to work, balancing some days in the office and some days at home? Or maybe you are back in the office every day and having to juggle personal and family commitments to accommodate this shift. As the way we work continues to evolve, you may find yourself craving consistency, predictability, and connection. Building and keeping a Proactive Routine is the key.
The uncertainty and stress caused by the pandemic has only served to widen the divide between employee engagement and wellbeing. This has critical implications for the workplace. If we do not prioritize wellbeing and mental health, stress and burnout will undermine our recovery efforts. Our organizations have a responsibility for the care and wellbeing of employees. Taking the necessary steps to relieve burnout and invest in people is not only essential for engaging and retaining top talent, it is simply the right thing to do to create a healthy and thriving workplace for all.
Our brains detest the vast amount of uncertainty we’ve been navigating over this past year. It's in our nature to crave certainty and predictability. We like to know what is coming around the corner. We are wired to constantly scan for new information in an effort to strengthen our internal prediction algorithms. And the internet is primed to provide us with a cognitive sugar rush. As a result, we find ourselves endlessly scrolling. This leaves us stuck in an endless loop of seeking more information to help compensate for this feeling of information overload. How can we take back control and regain our footing? Here are the 3 most effective approaches to mitigate information overload and avoid unnecessary stress.
Do you feel like you’re pulled in too many directions? Is daily planning about as futile as sorting Lego, when the universe seems determined to scatter your beautiful piles? In the short term, it is easier to manage our work the way we always have. But this doesn’t fix the inequality when our lists are longer than our days. We need a fresh approach. Here's how you can take small steps each day, so you can simplify your work, reclaim time, and create better results. Over time, these small steps will add up to radically different days. Simplified days with amplified results.
Many people struggle to stay organized because they treat it as a one-off strategy. If you want organization to work for you, it’s important to make time for organization, just as you would block time for a meeting or project. After all, the goal is to spend your time doing your best work, not looking for it! Here are 4 strategies you can use to make time for organization – and make it stick.
I am almost always ready to embrace the change in scenery and the increased energy Fall brings. But this year I don’t quite feel the same. If, like me, you are feeling less “spring” in your step this Fall, it may help you to invest time in the following 5 principles of productivity as a foundation to recharge your day – and yourself.
Despite working with the same 24 hours the rest of us have, successful people seem to yield out-of-this world results when it comes to productivity and making the most of busy days. How do they do it? The solution is simple - but powerful.
There are many benefits to building and keeping a routine. Routines help reduce our stress and ensure we make every minute count by blocking time for our top priorities. Many successful people follow a routine seven days a week – even on vacations – treating this ritual as their secret weapon in professional success. If you’re getting ready to head out on vacation, you may want to consider bringing your routine (or at least some of it) with you.
