Tags: , , , , | Categories: Productivity tips and tricks Posted by ProductivityScience on 2/24/2009 6:36 PM | Comments (0)

Schedule Most people regularly experience stress from their schedules that were not implemented. Why there are differences between plans and implementations? Mostly because of drawbacks in planning procedure: actually, plans in most cases describe that things which we want to happen but ignore things which are likely or possibly to happen even against our will.

Now I want to share some simple but extremely effective time management technique that helps to make plans much closer to reality.

Actually, this technique is very simple: instead of planning try to focus on predicting. Simple, huh?

And now some explanations to show how this works. When someone tries to predict, s/he involves in the process much more factors than doing just planning. And it helps dramatically. More...

Next Task Number Generator Sometimes our To-Do list makes us to feel uncomfortable about choosing Next Action to do. The most unpleasant thing is that you have to decide. But in general people do not like to make decisions and it is rather normal than not.

I'll show you how to make this decision in most painless way.More...

Tags: , , | Categories: Productivity tips and tricks, MS Outlook Posted by ProductivityScience on 7/21/2008 1:50 AM | Comments (11)

I hate writing on paper - especially making paper todolists. I do not like to stick that little yellow sheets of paper on my workplace because it is not as helps to remember to do something as distracts my attention. Also it so easy to lost that important task list with notes written on paper that sometimes it prevents do get into work at all. And frankly I love trees.

There is very simple way not to jam mind with tasks and do not use paper at all More...