by Hawkins | Mar 27, 2011 | Business Management, General, Habits, Meetings, planning, Procrastination, Productivity
Are you always late? Even just 5 minutes is late. Being late might not seem like a big deal to those who are always late, but it is in fact a big deal. Let me tell you why. When you’re late you impact other people. Let’s say you’re 20 minutes...
by Hawkins | Mar 16, 2011 | General, Habits, planning, Productivity, Time Management, Workplace productivity
Of all the things that you place onto your schedule, are you setting time for you? Most of us don’t, which is a big mistake. If you don’t stop to take a moment for you on a regular basis, it makes it hard to take care of the things and the people...
by Hawkins | Mar 14, 2011 | Business Management, Clutter, General, Office Organizing, planning, Productivity, Systems, Time Management, Workplace productivity
There are a few other things that you need to start a solid foundation to run your business. You can’t successfully run a business if you don’t have a good accounting system in place. For accurate and easily accessible records and having everything in one place,...
by Hawkins | Mar 9, 2011 | Business Management, General, planning, Productivity, Systems, Time Management, Workplace productivity
Of all the people in business, many of them are running things by the seat of their pants. Things are done at the last minute, deadlines are barely met or missed and with no support systems in place, eventually things start to fall through the cracks. To be in...
by Hawkins | Mar 7, 2011 | General, Habits, Office Organizing, planning, Productivity, Routines, Systems, Time Management, Workplace productivity
With the fast pace of life, things work a lot easier when we have systems in place to help keep things running smoothly. One simple, yet quite effective system that can be used is a tickler file. A tickler file is used in addition to your calendar to remind you of...
by Hawkins | Mar 1, 2011 | General, planning, Productivity, Time Management, Time Management Methods, Workplace productivity
So, I’ve talked about this technique and how it works, so now, let’s talk about tracking. Depending upon what they want to track, individuals archive hard copies of the Pomodoros they’ve completed. If you were going to use the technique, you might...
