productivity

How to “find time” and increase productivity in your field

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timeWhat differentiates someone who works hard and one that works smart is how they spend their time. We all have equal hours in a day to decide what to spend them on. While others watch the hours fly without doing anything constructive, some people understand the importance of every second in the clock. This goes out to anyone looking for better ways to manage their time to increase productivity in what they do.

The secret lies in working smarter instead of putting too much effort on the things that you can simplify. The reason why people get stressed from work is that they try as much as they can to do everything by themselves within the day with pressure from deadlines. This technique only aggravates nervousness, and you probably miss out on a specific task. Here are the strategies to being more productive managing your time efficiently.

Put the most important task first

Whether you are in school or working, ensure that the most crucial task comes before everything else. Spend your morning assessing what you should do the first hours of your day. Focus on completing these tasks first so that you don’t develop anxiety from delays if your boss demands results. Carry out essential duties avoiding any distractions from friends or social media. Give yourself few hours of full concentration without being tempted to surf the internet. Concentrating enables you to work faster and not waste time. Continue reading →

Keep Calm and do the Math

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productivityCatherine Austin Fitts – It’s time to take a deep breath and listen to the American people.

Our concerns have been smothered over by the media “shriek-o-meter” and government promises like thick gravy poured on an entrée that no one wants to really taste. All the mathematical systems we use to communicate — from market prices to voting booths to official statistics — are manipulated. So we are escalating our cries.

Let’s pierce through the passion and diversity of opinions and look at the fundamental mathematics of government budgets and economics (what I refer to as, “how the money works”) to “grok” the deeper message:

  • Our time and health is increasingly wasted: Labor productivity has been rising until recently. However, productivity outside of work has been falling. The reasons are endless: Overly complex government systems and rules and regulations. Financial fraud, bailouts and financial coup d’etat. Debasement of the food systems, the environment and the currency. Surveillance capitalism.  If I go to work and am efficient at generating corporate profits, and then come home and lose hours to poor transportation infrastructure, identify theft, illness resulting from GMO food and global spraying, and predatory and invasive government regulation and corporate practices, how is productivity increased?

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Doing and Being – Lazy & Leisure?

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Jennifer Hoffman – I had one of my most non-productive days ever this past week, a day that began with a very late start, whose highlight was two naps and some unplanned phone conversations. At the end of the day, when I looked at my to-do list and noticed that very little energywas marked as ‘done’, I had a moment of regret, followed by a realization of something else, that ‘being’ was all I needed to be doing and I could catch up on my work later. Whatever I was doing, while I thought I wasn’t doing anything, what exactly the right thing to do in that moment. I wasn’t being lazy or leisurely, I was participating in work that didn’t require my physical body to be busy with doing anything.

The most remarkable event that day was a phone conversation with someone I didn’t know was interested in spiritual subjects and issues. In fact, we had never talked about those things although she has an idea of who I am and what I do. But I didn’t have to say a word because she asked all of the questions and even shared a few intuitive and spiritual experiences with me, including how she manifested a dinner with the Osmond brothers. I could have cut the conversation short because I did have things to do but I knew that there was nothing more important than processing energy with this caller and being available for her to share her stories with me.   Continue reading →

Charles Hugh Smith ~ The Joys Of Being Productive

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“The joys of being productive . . .  do not become stale with the passage of time. If anything, skills and tools are welcomed as old friends, their value burnished rather than depleted by experience.” C H Smith

CharlesHughSmithThe joys of consuming are familiar to us all–a good meal, a cold beverage, a fine article of clothing, a new gadget, a new travel experience, another cosmetic procedure.

We’re flooded with messages emphasizing the joys of consumption. Consuming more is what powers the global economy and more specifically, profits.

Governments need profits to tax, and companies making profits to hire workers who then pay taxes. So it has become a perverse patriotic duty to consume more, especially if we have to borrow money to do so, as that debt boosts bank profits.

Lost in the frenzy to persuade us to consume more and take on more debt are the joys of producing. We’re all expected to master the processes of consumption–comparision shopping, obtaining credit cards, etc.–yet our culture rarely makes room for the joys of being productive and thrifty, i.e. reusing materials, repairing useful things, creating art from leftover supplies, etc. Continue reading →