Whenever my workload is piled high and I start dropping balls, I silently wish for more time! It makes me feel better in the moment. If time is the reason I’m behind, I don’t have to blame myself. But of course that strategy isn’t working so well for me - you probably feel the same way! However much we want it or wish it, we’ll never get any more hours in our day. But that doesn’t make us powerless to the situation. You can’t create more time, but you CAN create the illusion that there’s ...
10 Ways To Deal With Overwhelm And Have a Productive Day
Why do monster to-do lists inspire overwhelm instead of productivity? It’s so frustrating. Just when you need to be able to turn it on and turn it up your brain has gone to sleep, you can’t think clearly, and your tendency to procrastinate has gone into overdrive. Instead of churning through your list, you find yourself staring at the screen, brewing a million and one cups of coffee, and doing everything but the one thing you’ve got to get done. ARGH! It’s a vicious circle too. When ...
Note-Taking Strategies That Turn Your Scatterbrain Into a Productivity Powerhouse
Ever noticed that you can have all the answers to a really hard problem one minute, yet struggle to find your keys or remember what’s on your shopping list the next? The human brain is amazing - unless we want to remember things! Our memory simply isn’t reliable. It’s why we misremember details, forget key aspects, or even fill in the gaps by making things up! These uncertainty breeds chaos. It’s a problem because a scatterbrain isn’t a productive brain! When you struggle to focus or ...
The Five Secrets of a Wildly Productive Week
I can’t tell you how much I used to dread Mondays. Perhaps you feel the same way? With a full on week ahead, you can feel buried under the pressure of it all before you even get out of bed! Fortunately, life doesn’t have to be all scatterbrain and chaos - even if you have a million and one things to juggle. That’s because there are powerful strategies you can use TODAY to get more done in less time. Here are FIVE of our favorites. Start your week on Sunday I hear you! Sundays ...
7 Productivity Tips To Make Your Next Semester The Best Yet
Back to school means grappling with that ever-present student dilemma. How to squeeze in the million and one things you have to get done?! Because you do want it all… You want the student life that you’ll talk about for years and you want the grades that create future opportunities. You don’t want to compromise one for the other. You don’t want to spend every waking minute buried under assignments, and you don’t want to drown in your reading list! Fortunately, there are things you can ...