Productivity

Mindful Efficiency

1.  Learn to Work the Right Way (for you) Problem:  Not leveraging your most productive time (golden hours) to their full potential. Solution:  Understand your Energy Patterns. Everyone has “golden hours.” Those hours are when you are most productive and highly creative.  I am the most productive from 10:00 am till 2:30 pm. My most highly creative projects (like...

The Power of Poems in Business Planning

Word of the Year concepts is popular planning tools.  You use a word to represent your upcoming year and what you wish to accomplish.   But this word has to represent your dreams, goals, action plans – EVERYTHING! And while I believe that words are powerful (I am a writer after all!), that’s a lot to put on a little word’s shoulders.   Over the last few years...

3 Ways to Gain More Time in Your Work Day

In IT or any corporate department, you always hear “There is never enough time”. Well, what if there is… Much of what we do in a day is unconscious.  Many of our work habits are on autopilot.   Several studies link meditation to effective time management for the simple reason:  a daily practice of meditation can boost attention, sharpen...