It’s easy to get distracted in the office. With emails, instant messages, cloud-based collaboration, noisy fax machines and chatty colleagues, finding the line between sanity and productivity can feel like walking a tightrope. In one survey, 70 percent of workers said they feel distracted when on the job. And 16 percent admitted to…
Your home influences your productivity more than you think
Working from home is a very popular modern phenomenon. People lean towards the freedom and this desired feeling of independence from the office cubicles. For too many years people didn’t have any alternative to the usual office work and had to follow the dress code, come to work at 9 AM and leave around 6…
Be Like Ike and improve productivity!
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…
The Keys to a Productive Workday
As we blogged about in “The Perfect Amount of Time to Work Each Day,” the 8-hour workday is not necessarily completed with 8-hours of actual work. With distractions and low-energy times, we can all be guilty of wasting big blocks of our working hours. As Inc. reports, the average U.S. worker spends just 39…
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…
Getting Through a Busy Day With No Sleep
We all know the importance of getting a good night’s sleep. Lack of sleep can cause anxiety, irritability and affect your ability to retain information, all impairing your productivity. But as all busy entrepreneurs know, sometimes getting a full night of shut-eye just isn’t possible. This Entrepreneur Magazine article offers some tips for powering…
The 7 Rules of Personal Productivity
You don’t have too much to do. Productivity and time management aren't your problem. You just have to be disciplined about setting priorities, focusing on what’s important, and letting go of what isn’t. When there’s something you really want to achieve, you'll find a way. As unproductive as I am, at least by all…
5 Time-Management Secrets from Successful Women
Is work life/personal life balance just a pipe dream? Or is it reserved just for the super “bionically” organized select few? Maybe not. In Laura Vanderkam’s latest book I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time, she details how most anyone can learn a few time saving tips….
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…