“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule but to schedule your priorities.” — Stephen Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
productivity
How to Avoid Email Overload and Win at Work
Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and Inc. all provide advice columns about how to avoid meeting and email overload. The articles are helpful. They often contain relevant ideas that can be easily implemented.
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How to Kill Your Projects
Writers are familiar with killing their darlings. Entrepreneurs are, too, although they might use a different terminology. Regardless, everyone has to learn how to kill a project.
How to Stay Focused during a Writing Project
Some of my writing projects are intense—i.e., upwards of fifteen, if not more, hours spent researching, writing, and revising. When I face those kinds of projects, I have to focus. It’s almost like developing tunnel vision. I focus on one task, and one task alone.
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10 Tips to be More Productive in 2016
I like to get things done. In fact, I’ve had complete strangers on Twitter ask me if I’m a #GTD person. Why, yes. Yes, I am.
Hourly or Project Rate?
“What’s your hourly rate?” should be an easy question to answer. However, I haven’t used an hourly rate since…I don’t know when. A long time ago. In a galaxy far, far away.