Listen on Spotify. It’s finally happened. I’ve gone barmy. I started this new writing venture just shy of a year ago and had one piece of advice drummed into me. Stay on topic. And now I’ve veered off course, devil that I am. Clearly, I still need to learn a lot about blogging (and aboutContinue reading “5 Reasons You Struggle to Learn (and How to Get Better)”
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29 Useful Excel Shortcuts and How Macros and VBA Code Can Automate Your Work
Listen on Spotify. Do you use Excel for Windows daily? Then you know the power of shortcuts. You might not have discovered the power macros and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) has to automate and speed up your work. I’m new to it myself and am still amazed by what you can do with macrosContinue reading “29 Useful Excel Shortcuts and How Macros and VBA Code Can Automate Your Work”
Is The Pomodoro Method and Productivity Timer Useful?
Listen on Spotify. Find it hard to concentrate at work? With so many distractions, wouldn’t it be great if there was a way to keep being consistently productive throughout your day? Well, you’re in luck. A productivity timer might be just the thing for you. Without further ado, let’s answer the question. Yes. The PomodoroContinue reading “Is The Pomodoro Method and Productivity Timer Useful?”
5 Practical Tips to Help You Become a More Productive Writer
Listen on Spotify. Often wonder how on earth some writers can crank out shedloads of quality content when it seems to take you an age to write an article, blog post, or even a letter? Meanwhile, others keep writing more and earning more money. Feeling dispirited? Well, you’re not alone. Wish you knew their secret?Continue reading “5 Practical Tips to Help You Become a More Productive Writer”
8 Ways to Become a More Productive Writer
Listen on Spotify. Writing speeds vary hugely. Some would say 200 words in an hour is a perfectly good speed to work at. Others would consider writing 1,200 per hour disappointing. A lot of the disparity depends on the kind of writing you’re undertaking. Genre fiction or blog posts often take less time to writeContinue reading “8 Ways to Become a More Productive Writer”
Effectiveness and Efficiency: Finding Balance
Listen on Spotify. In 2007, Google employees listened to Merlin Mann — a self-described geek and writer — who was an up and coming name in the movement towards personal productivity. He’d been invited to talk about how people could start to spend less time dealing with emails and more on more important, meaningful work.Continue reading “Effectiveness and Efficiency: Finding Balance”
5 More Cognitive Biases That Influence Efficiency
Listen on Spotify. The word bias has become something of a hot potato in recent years. Bias manifests itself in many forms. We can find ourselves unduly disadvantaging someone and, perhaps, in doing so, unfairly favouring someone else. Happily for us, many of the biases most prevalent in the workplace are manageable, if not entirelyContinue reading “5 More Cognitive Biases That Influence Efficiency”
4 Cognitive Biases that Affect Productivity (and How to Tackle Them)
Listen on Spotify. Aristotle defined humans as rational beings who tend to make decisions driven by logic. This assumption comes from the idea that when confronted with two options, we plump for the choice we believe will maximise well-being. The extent to which we are rational or irrational creatures is still highly contested — asContinue reading “4 Cognitive Biases that Affect Productivity (and How to Tackle Them)”
Assistive Tech and Efficiency in the Workplace: What’s the Deal?
Listen on Spotify. Technology surrounds us all. Not least in the workplace. You might think assistive technology (AT) is something that’s mostly used by people with disabilities, but if you’ve so much as asked Alexa what the time is, you’ve used AT. Assistive technology first came into the workplace to help make our workingContinue reading “Assistive Tech and Efficiency in the Workplace: What’s the Deal?”
Is Meditation Good for Productivity?
Listen on Spotify. I quite like getting distracted. In fact, just this morning I was wonderfully distracted by the new TV adaptation of the epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time. But, as my writing this intro slightly later than planned would attest, distraction can be an enemy of productivity. There’s mounting evidence thatContinue reading “Is Meditation Good for Productivity?”
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