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Tag: Productivity

  • Cool Trick to Manage Too Many Open Tabs

    Having too many tabs open can eat up all the memory on your computer and make it run like a sick dog. Especially true with Google Chrome. If you are finding your machine is performing poorly from too many tabs syndrome, make sure to check out this video for a cool solution that should fix…

  • Improve Focus with these 12 Productivity Hacks

  • 4 Reasons Why you Must Document your Business

    This was originally a guest post I wrote on The Productivity Blog Bad process documentation can kill your business dead. Here’s how: 1. Quality of Work Documenting your processes is proven to improve quality of work. Dr. Atul Gawande in his bestseller, the Checklist Manifesto, presents facts that show using checklists in surgery has significantly…

  • How to Sleep Anywhere Anytime – Travel Sleep Hacks

    I’ve been travelling for over 3 years and while I love it, I have found myself in dire need of sleep in many strange places. Couches in random peoples houses, rooms in raging college parties, bustling 18 bed dorms in hostels and of course planes, airports, bus stops, trains etc… With so many changing sleep environments it…

  • How to get Asana (and other web apps) onto your Taskbar

    I was so happy when I found this I just had to share it. I LOVE this trick. Basically, it allows you to add browser based web apps to your task bar when using chrome. This is what it looks like:   Below is a YouTube video that shows you how to do it. Takes…

  • Email Optimization

    I’ve been working on email optimization lately. Here are three plugins I have found that are awesome: Snooze your Emails – allows you to set a reminder to re-visit that email at a later date, instead of just losing it in your inbox. Yesware – allows you to track who is opening your emails, and…

  • 99 Abstract Life Hacks – Make your Life Easier Today!

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  • How to KILL it In the Corporate World (or the Big, Small, Big Theory) – Part 2

    Last post I introduced the big-small-big theory on how to get ahead in the corporate world. If you haven’t read it yet, I suggest you go back because this post won’t make any sense otherwise… I talked about the concept of how working in a small business produces more productive employees which can then progress…

  • Are You a Decision Making Douche?

    My latest and faviouritest book is Psycho Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz. I have the audio version and am on my third listen. Which is no small feat as it’s a monstrous book. The book is crazy famous and has been used by countless athletes, actors, CEOs, entrepreneurs, coaches etc… For those who don’t know, Psycho…

  • What Drives People? Money? Passion? Purpose?

    Great speech from Dan Pink on what drives people. Click here if you cant see the video. Dan Pink – Drive Takeaways: – Money is a great driver for repetitive quantifiable activities – Money is not the best driver for creativity – People are more inclined to do things because of purpose, mastery and a…