Be Productive – Tips to Maintain Your Focus

One of the best tips I ever learned was to be able to recognise when you lose focus. And of course if you do this quickly then you lose less time before you get back on track. If we don’t notice our distractions we can lose a lot of our planned productive time on lower…

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Be Productive – Take Control of Your Inbox

Be Productive with emails

THE EMAIL PROBLEM It has happened to us all. We have a plan for the day, we check our email first and the next thing we know its mid-morning or worse still lunchtime! Our intentions are good, “I’ll just clear my Inbox before I start and then I will feel more organised”. But of course…

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Be Productive – Learn to Say No!

learn to say no advice - handwriting on a napkin with cup of coffee

By Moira Dunne During my first job as a consultant, my client told me that I had the ability to say no while making other people feel good about it. I think it was a compliment! It wasn’t something I planned but when I analysed my approach I realised I was protecting my work time…

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