Category Archives: Productivity and Time Management

Creating the Perfect Checklist for Project Productivity

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One of the tools that I use which really enables meet to be productive is a set of checklists that I have developed.

I think every important project should have a highly-detailed checklist.  This helps in a variety of ways ranging from helping you to stay on track, preventing overlooked details, energizing you as things are checked off, etc.

The question is:  how do you create the “perfect” checklist? Or any checklist at all for that matter?  I routinely use three stages of development for mine…

Stage One: Objectivize.  It begins very simply with stating the primary object of the project.  In other words, what is it that I want to achieve?

Objective:  Qualify for the Boston Marathon
Objective:  Earn an extra $100,000 this year
Objective:  Teach my daughter to play piano by spring recital

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21 Ways to End Procrastination, part 2

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Procrastination is something we all experience. Trouble is, it’s something that can quickly become a habit. And it’s a habit that will derail your business success. People who are successful are people who have learned to tame that particular monster.

Here are twenty-one ways to help you boot it out the door.

(part 2 of this report)

  1. Chuck Your To-Do List

If your To-Do list instills strong feelings of shame, guilt and doom that send you plummeting down the cliff of procrastination, get rid of that list completely! It’s not doing you any good—just reinforcing feelings of inadequacy and anxiety, and reinforcing procrastination.

Find a different way to prioritize. (One that matches your learning style and doesn’t trigger anxiety.)

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21 Ways to End Procrastination, part 1

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Procrastination is something we all experience. Trouble is, it’s something that can quickly become a habit. And it’s a habit that will derail your business success. People who are successful are people who have learned to tame that particular monster.

Here are twenty-one ways to help you boot it out the door.

  1. It Gets Easier

If you’ve been procrastinating in almost every area, choose one task – preferably your most important – and focus all your energies on getting that one done. The sense of relief and accomplishment you experience will make it easier to tackle the next task. And the one after that will be even easier. So, pick a project (or even a small, specific part of one) and go for it!

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The R.E.A.L. Secret to Getting Things Done

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Do you know the classic business mistake that almost all business people fall into?

It’s working IN their business, and not working ON their business.

Despite the constant talk entrepreneurs bring up about “freedom,” many business people glue their bodies to their chairs, paste their hands to their keyboards, and enter into a trance with their bright computer screens.

And the worst part?

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