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10 Keys to Improve Productivity
1. Prioritize your efforts - Steven Covey makes a distinction between things that are urgent and things that are important. Focus your efforts on the important items first.
2. Simplify your environment - Clutter creates stress. You feel like you have more work to do when you are in a cluttered environment.
3. Follow up within 24 hours - Return all business emails and phone calls within 24 hours, lingering communication creates a feeling of clutter.
4. Listen intently to others - When you allow thoughts to interrupt your listening, you create anxiety for yourself because you cannot respond to your thoughts nor can you completely take in what the other person is telling you.
5. Decide what you are willing to give up in order to get what you want - Whether it is time, money, or sleep. You make choices about what want, and what the cost will be. Recognize the need to give something up in order to receive something new.
6. Spend time in reflection daily - When you create a space for inner stillness your mind will release the background noise of the world and become clearer and stronger when you return.
7. Simplify your tasks - Where do you spend excess time? Create simple systems to handle everyday tasks.
8. Create a strong personal foundation - When your boundaries are strong and your standards are high, problems disappear.
9. Simplify your life - A complicated life seeks problems.
10. Eliminate tolerations - Identify those things you are tolerating and get rid of them.
(c) 2006 Patti Keating ABOUT THE AUTHOR Patti Keating, is a Coach, Trainer, and Entrepreneur. To learn more about her and sign up for more FREE tips like these, visit her site at http://www.IntentionsCoaching.com NOTE: You’re welcome to “reprint” this article online as long as it remains complete and unaltered (including the “about the author” info at the end), and you send a copy of your reprint to Patti@IntentionsCoaching.com |