by Hawkins | Jan 3, 2011 | Clutter, General, Goal Setting, Home Organizing, Office Organizing, Productivity
January is Get Organized month, or GO month. If you plan on getting it together this year, now is the time to do it. Along with creating your goals and the plan to accomplish them, include your plans for getting organized. For some, the hardest thing about getting...
by Hawkins | Dec 30, 2010 | General, Goal Setting, Habits, planning, Productivity, Time Management, Workplace productivity
To be successful at planning and productive, you’ve got to know your priorities. If you don’t, you’ll kill your productivity. To know what your priorities are, you have to start from the beginning. Set time at the end of the year to set your goals for...
by Hawkins | Dec 28, 2010 | General, planning, Productivity, Workplace productivity
How many times have you heard “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail”? Believe it or not, it’s true. Planning is essential to your day-to-day and overall success and it has to be a part of your regular time management routine. If it’s not,...
by Hawkins | Dec 26, 2010 | Clutter, General, Office Organizing, Productivity, Time Management, Workplace productivity
Of all the things that will kill your productivity, having and trying to operate in a disorganized space is at the top of the list. When your environment doesn’t support you, it contributes to wasting your time. With a disorganized space you spend more time...
by Hawkins | Dec 16, 2010 | General, Habits, Productivity, Time Management, Workplace productivity
To add to the list of possible interruptions, we can look to those in our work environment. Coworkers present another common interruption. It might be that they come to your workspace or office because they need something from you. To cut down on those...
by Hawkins | Dec 14, 2010 | General, Habits, Problem Areas, Productivity, Time Management, Workplace productivity
Break; pause; disruption; intermission; interlude; disturbance; intrusion; stoppage; interval. No matter what you call it, it’s an interruption. We all are interrupted throughout the course of our workday, by people and by things that may not necessarily always be...
