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 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 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...