- Create a daily plan
- Peg a time limit to each task
- Use a calendar
- Use an organizer
- Know your deadlines
- Learn to say “NO”
- Target to be early
- Time box your activities
- Have a clock visibly placed before you
- Set reminders 15 minutes before
- Focus
- Block out distractions
- Track your time spent
- Don’t fuss about unimportant details
- Prioritize
- Delegate
- Batch similar tasks together
- Eliminate your time wasters
- Cut off when you need to
- Leave buffer time in-between
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- Take a break
- Set a timer
- Eliminate all distractions
- Distractions should be avoided
- Love what you do
- Complete your most dreaded tasks first thing in the morning
- Use JDarkRoom
- Just start
- Everyone has a certain time of the day in which they are more productive than others
- Keep a notebook and pen on hand at all times
- Write a blog to chronicle your own personal development and achievements
- Plan out all of your meals a week ahead and make your grocery list accordingly
- Step away from the computer
- Writer out a to-list each day
- Ask yourself “Am I currently making the best possible use of my time?”
- Get plenty of sleep
- Exercise
- Organize your coffee
- Outsource as much as possible
- Use a Tivo or DVR
- Turn off the TV
- Listen to educational audio books
- Auto pay your bills
- Read David Allen’s Getting Things Done
- Focus on result-oriented activities
- Take shorter showers
- Tell other people about your goals
- Learn to say “NO”
- Go on an information diet
- Find a mentor
- Write your most important tasks and to-dos on a calendar
- Set some exciting goals
- Learn keyboard shortcuts
- Get up early before anyone else
- Don’t multitask
- Reward yourself for finishing a big task
- Shop online
- Batch similar tasks
- Speed up your internet with a broadband connection
- Start a polyphasic sleep schedule
- Improve your typing speed
- Get rid of time wasters
- Protect yourself from unnecessary phone time with caller ID
- Work from home
- Many employers now offer direct deposit
- Prioritize your tasks
- Just read the parts that you need
- Cook your meals in bulk
- Learn to speed read
- Use Windows hibernation feature
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