Want to beat procrastination? Here’s some easy tips you can apply right now! Have deadlines for your goals. Beware, however, of being unrealistic. Working towards impossible deadlines is very de- motivating and won’t help you break the procrastination habit. Break a task down to smaller, bite-sized pieces with realistic achievable time-lines. This can often help [...]
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Who opens the mail? Who does the filing? Do you find yourself constantly getting bogged down with tasks somebody else could do? Over lunch some time David Eddy, Project Director of a great First Time Principals programme via Auckland University, shared the following tip. It was given to him by a colleague early in [...]
I’ve just had a sort-out of my paperwork. You might be thinking, ‘Robyn, if you practice what you preach, your paperwork would be always tidy. What do you need a sort-out for?’ I’m human too. With our New Zealand summer just past I had a wonderful parade of non-stop visitors; I HAD to go fishing with the neighbours and learn [...]
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I’ve had a real wake up call. Twice in the last two weeks I have travelled to Australia to attend conferences on internet marketing with some of the world’s top experts. I realised I have been working in the online world for the last eleven years, and now it is time to take it to [...]
Sometimes it seems that time literally slips through our fingers. With the 2nd month of the year now unfolding lets look at a couple of the most common time management mistakes and how to stop them from stealing your precious hours: 1: Doing the easy things first! This little critter can suck the [...]
If the overwhelm of Christmas is dragging you down, don’t let it… Christmas time can be utterly exhausting – work commitments, deadlines, family obligations and present buying can make even the most savy among us burn out by years end. So what do we do to overcome that? There is no better time to get [...]
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Do you ever feel sluggish in the afternoon? Is there a particular time of day that you find it difficult to focus, or are more prone to making mistakes? We all know it’s not helpful to anyone if we sit at our desks for 10 hours a day. Yet so many people don’t take enough breaks – [...]
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The recent 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand is a timely reminder of the importance of using our time wisely. When it cuts to the chase, will we be glad we spent that hour procrastinating when we could have been spending it in a more fruitful and rewarding way?
How many meetings do you attend in a week? A month? A year? Of all those meetings, how many are vital to the work you do? So much time and productivity can be lost by the seemingly endless maze of meetings that entangle many professionals. Today’s tip is short and sweet – before you confirm [...]
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Familiar with the 80/20 rule? It is the idea that 80% of the most important things to be done in a day can be achieved through 20 percent of your effort/time. So what is happening during the rest of the day? How much time can we save by looking at how we do what we [...]
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