He commanded armed forces in WWII, served as president of the United States, and laid out systems which lead to the launch of the Interstate Highway System, the internet and NASA….all the while finding time to golf and oil paint. Dwight Eisenhower, a country boy from Kansas, managed to do it all. How? He…
Tomatoes and Productivity
What does a tomato have to do with your productivity? Well, there’s a popular time management and productivity system named after the Italian word for tomato. It’s called the Pomodoro Technique and it aims to prevent procrastination and maximize productivity. Francesco Cirillo created the technique in the 1980s and named it after a tomato-shaped kitchen timer…
10 Awesome Productivity Tips
At OfficeTime, we focus a lot on helping our customers become more productive by tracking and analyzing their time. We came across this article in Entrepreneur with 50 great productivity tips. To respect your time, we thought we’d share 10, but please feel free to follow the link to read the rest when you have…
Making the Most of Your Time…
OfficeTime users are very focused on smart time management. We know you are making the most of your minutes, which is why you know tracking your time is vital. One area that may get overlooked when we consider “time killers” in the workplace is the culture that we as business owners instill in our businesses….
A List of Distractions
In our recently released list of the year’s Top Time Killers, we drew attention to the distractions that get between so many of us and an otherwise productive workday. Knowing what impedes us from being productive is vital to being able to better manage our time and get things done. Along comes this post…
How to Stop Procrastinating With the “2-Minute Rule”
Most of the tasks that you procrastinate on aren’t actually difficult to do — you have the talent and skills to accomplish them — you just avoid starting them for one reason or another. According to this post in Business Insider, the 2-Minute Rule overcomes procrastination and laziness by making it so easy to…
Time-Management Tips from Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin
It’s really interesting how a useful productivity tool like OfficeTime can fit into a wide variety of time management programs and philosophies. So many people are afraid of using these tools and the result is usually more chaos and disorganization. In this article by Daniel Levitin, he gives some “real world” examples about how anyone…
Ready To Enhance The Craft Of Time Management?
While you may be able to multi-task, chances are it’s ultimately not working to your advantage. Rather than work with fractured focus, fixate all of your concentrative power on the task at hand. Full-scale immersion is a surefire means to creating the highest quality output.
An Accountability Partner: Try it on for size.
By the very definition of insanity (doing the same thing over and over again and expect different results), we should all stop repeating the same old patterns and start following through. Well, How? The best way, I found, is Accountability. Find yourself an Accountability Partner.
No One Plans to Fail! • We Just Simply Fail to Plan!
No One Plans to Fail! • We Just Simply Fail to Plan!