We live in a world of interruptions and distractions. These interruptions can make it tough to finish the projects that matter most to us. And the answer to this problem is – a tomato. I’m talking about a time-management method called the Pomodoro Technique. First taught in the early 1990s, the technique was developed by…
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Want To Save Hours Every Week? Read This Fast!
For years I considered myself a slow reader. But it wasn’t until I began to use an electronic reader that I understood just how slow. Routinely I would dawdle over a page of newspaper text for so long, that my iPad would time out and close up the document, thinking I wasn’t there anymore. I…
Productive Holiday Gifts to Give (and Maybe Receive)
They are responsible for our good years and our continued hope for the future. They are our clients, but also our teachers and friends. A card is not enough to express our gratitude. Every year at this time, we look for ways to tell our clients what they mean to us. Here are a few…
How Much Time Is There In An Eight-Hour Day?
Does this sound like a trick question? Let me ask it another way: have you ever planned to get a certain amount of work done only to find at the end of the day that you need another three or four hours to finish what you’d planned? Whether we work alone in a home office…
Worth Repeating – February posts from New Leaf News
I’m in love with this sample of February posts from years past, and I hope you are, too! It’s a good time to check for “tolerations” – those small annoyances that can get in the way of your progress. Address them now! Here’s how. And speaking of tolerations, are you seeing too much of your…
Three ways to reduce your office paper this year
Keeping office paper within bounds is a challenge that hasn’t gone away. Here are three practices you can adopt this year to reduce the amount of paper you keep. Subscribe to online versions of newspapers, journals, and magazines. Many publications offer a full or expanded online publication, often for less than the cost for delivery…
Worth Repeating – October posts from New Leaf News
I’ve dipped into the New Leaf News archives to share a few posts that still seem as fresh and relevant today as they did in Octobers past. In case you missed them the first time around, here they come again! I’m still using mind-mapping as a technique to organize and view more information than…
One Easy Way to Get That Shredding Done
Feeding old financial documents and client files through a small office shredder is no one’s idea of fun. Finding a shredding company that will pick up less than 10 boxes of paper can be tough. So how does the small office or home office clear out a backlog of shredding? Many local stores such as…
Want Greater Productivity? Walk This Way.
I’ve written before about ways to exercise when it seems hard to include exercise in your schedule. There’s another tool that I recently suggested to a client who wants to do a lot of exercise with no down-time. It’s a Steelcase desk called the Walkstation. The Walkstation’s basic structure is a treadmill that operates at…
Worth repeating – August posts from New Leaf News
I’m sharing a few posts from the New Leaf archives. Here’s what was on our mind in August during the past couple of years. Productivity depends on being able to work in comfort. Eliminate at least one pain in the neck with a wireless headset. Successfully planning for the future requires acknowledging past wins. Are…