Category Archives: Productivity

Positives of negative New Year’s resolutions

By this time most of us (at least those who care to make our lives better) have made their New Year’s resolutions. From what I hear here and there most of these resolutions are around new things which you are going to do this year: work out regularly read more books spend more time with family improve foreign language [...]
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Multitasking kills

Did not I told you that multitasking is evil? Gauge your distraction to see it yourself! Multitasking is like using “all seasons” tires: they drive equally bad in summer and in winter. When you multitask, all of your activities end with equally bad result.
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Getting new Moleskine

I’m rather new to this whole Moleskine thing, but that does not mean I do not want to improve . If you like me, try to save your eyes from computer at least for some time and want to have a writing appliance that you’ll want to return to again and again, I hope [...]
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Less is more

Some time ago I’ve posted a couple of ideas around productivity and distractionless computer environment. Since then I continue trying to optimize my computer experience here and there. It is always interesting to know what ideas others have about problems you are thinking about. So it was very interesting for me to read how Leo [...]
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Use time wisely

Could not resist posting this quote by Lee Iacocca: “The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business – or almost anywhere else for that matter.” (via Happy-PM)
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Productive time spans

Right now I’m really into staying focused on the things I need to accomplish. Most of my work time I spend at my computer and as you might have noticed from my recent posts I try to make it more rewarding experience. If you are also interested in that you may benefit from rebooted 43 folders [...]
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Full speed mode

A while back I wrote about using full screen to enhance your productivity and focus on the task you need to accomplish. But that is not enough – you need to get rid of blinking, screaming and beeping everything. Here are a few recipes that I follow personally. Most likely you use Outlook as I do. Outlook [...]
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Full screen mode

I’m a huge fun of “Maximize it!” approach when it comes to use of computer screen real estate no matter how big the diagonal is. Initially it was because I could not stand wasting precious pixels. And now it has more to do with attention and concentration rather than anything else. The idea behind this [...]
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Moleskine

You can not imagine how easy it is to learn. If you want to every little piece that you read, see or hear can enrich and advance your bag of knowledge. You never know when you are going to use what you learn, but one day you will not regret that you born this baggage. This [...]
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You vs. your inbox

On the average I receive from 50 to 200 e-mails in my corporate Inbox which I believe is not high number at all. Still despite of the techniques I use to keep my Inbox clean some e-mails need to be stored for reference for months in archive. As you might expect it is difficult [...]
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