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...
by Hawkins | Dec 12, 2010 | General, goals, Habits, planning, Problem Areas, Procrastination, Productivity, Time Management, Workplace productivity
There is always more to do, no matter what hat you wear in life. Everyone from domestic engineers/stay at home Moms to top CEOs can relate to that. At times it’s difficult to get things done because of the overwhelm conversation. That conversation that we...
by Hawkins | Dec 2, 2010 | General, Office Organizing, Productivity, Routines, Systems, Uncategorized, Workplace productivity
Every business should run like a well-oiled machine and one thing that helps keep them that way are systems and processes for all areas of business. Typical systems are filing, accounting, contact management, sales, inventory, payroll, customer service. Having...
by Hawkins | Nov 30, 2010 | General, Habits, planning, Productivity, Time Management, Workplace productivity
Simply put, you can’t manage your time without a means to do so. We all know that there never seem to be enough hours in any given day, but we aren’t going to get any more, so we have to work with what we’ve got. Besides knowing what’s...
by Hawkins | Nov 28, 2010 | General, goals, planning, Productivity, Uncategorized, Workplace productivity
Now let’s look at how your calendar and to-do lists can become cluttered and how to remedy that. There’s always plenty to do, usually more than there’s enough time for. Clutter can accumulate very quickly in this respect. Everyone has things that...
by Hawkins | Nov 23, 2010 | Clutter, email, General, Productivity, Time Management, Workplace productivity
As I mentioned in the initial post, clutter shows up in the form of email, another productivity killer. We all know how it is when you are checking email. Just one email can take you quite a bit of time if you’re not careful. You open an email that makes a...
