Wouldn’t it be great if you could buy extra hours each day on Amazon, eBay or Overstock.com? Not many people would turn down the opportunity to buy more time and have the ability to accomplish more each day. Unfortunately I can’t give you more hours in the day, but I can give you some tips [...]

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1. SPEND TIME PLANNING AND ORGANIZING. Setting aside time to think and plan is time well-spent. Organize in a way that makes sense to you. If you need color and pictures, use a lot on your calendar or planning book. Some people need to have papers filed away; others get their creative energy from their [...]

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Some of us panic under pressure, others freeze when we’re stressed. Here’s how to stay focused under stress, from family and lifestyle journalist Ylonda Cavines.

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“Reflective thinking requires the continual evaluation of beliefs, assumptions, and hypotheses against existing data and against other plausible interpretations of the data.” — John Dewey, American educator. “Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.” — John C. Maxwell, American author and leadership guru. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; [...]

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These simple strategies will keep you energized through the holidays and well into the new year. It’s getting toward the end of the year, so with the holidays in sight, I thought it appropriate to give you all a little gift: a column that I guarantee will make you more more successful in the coming [...]

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No matter what you do for a living, the key to success is superlative performance, day after day after day. And that’s only possible if you make optimism, expectancy, and enthusiasm part of your daily experience. That’s easy if you’re pursuing your life’s dearest dreams. But what if, like almost everybody else in this world, [...]

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A to-do list is a fundamental tool for getting things done: it helps you plan your day, see what you’ve accomplished, and what you should work on next. But a badly-written to-do list can actually sabotage your productivity.

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Reducing your stress levels at work can be a job in itself. If you are constantly stressed out at work, it can not only take its toll on your health & well-being but can also lower your level of productivity and the quality of your work. In order to reduce your stress levels you need [...]

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The ability, some might say attempt, to multitask is a curse of sorts. While working on ten things at once may seem efficient, each of those things gets roughly 10% of our greatness while we’re doing it. That may actually be fine for, say, deleting emails, but is that enough for writing a note to [...]

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When does your obsession with efficiency become a waste of time? Bill Clark on how you actually work smarter when learning new productivity tricks.

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