Have you ever came back to work on Monday only to spend your entire morning answering the huge onslaught of emails that are clogging up your inbox? Are you tired of having 46 unread messages and after reading through them all realizing that only two are important? Do your co-workers complain that you never respond to their messages? If you need to improve your email system, here are some tips that will help: Keep Your Work and Your Social Life Separate If you use email for your work, you should have a separate address for your friends and family which you only check when you are at home so … [Read more...]
Feeling Overwhelmed? How to Make a To-Do List That Gets Done
Making a to-do list is a great way to see at a glance what you need to get accomplished in a day. However, some to-to lists help productivity more than others, and a bad to-do list might do more harm than good. If you can invest a little bit of time planning out your tasks for the day in a clear and achievable list you will be able to accomplish things much more smoothly. Here are a few ways that you can make the best to-do list possible: Break it down. Adding a huge task such as “clean the house” to your to-do list can overwhelm you. Divide this task into several small … [Read more...]
Productivity Tips for Working from Home
If you have your own business and you work from home, it can be challenging to form the right habits that you need to be productive. Working from home provides its own unique challenges, and it is very easy to get distracted by many things around you in the house. You might start tidying your desk and then decide you should also do the laundry and end up several hours later with a perfectly clean house but no work done. You can also lose hours of your time surfing the net, responding to emails, and reading clever and funny blogs before you realize how late it has become. When you work from … [Read more...]
