If you're not exercising in the morning, you may be missing out on an opportunity to increase your productivity.  Your energy level may not be as high as it could be.

But when you exercise in the morning, you're more likely to feel energized during your day.  And when you're energized, you're more productive.

If you currently exercise, but you exercise in the afternoon or evening, try having your exercise session in the morning instead.  Exercising...

A simple way to get more done during your day is to do your most important tasks during your productive hours.  Some people find that they're more productive in the morning.  Others are more productive at night.  And some are more productive in the afternoon.

If your schedule allows it, you could take it further by only working during your productive hours and taking the rest of the day off.  For instance, if you find that you get drowsy in the afternoon,...

If you want to get more done in less time, it's important to learn how to type faster.  If you're only typing 20 WPM (Words Per Minute), then you're not going to get as much done compared to someone who types 50 WPM in the same amount of time.  If you can type 50 WPM, then you won't get as much done compared to if you can type 80 WPM.

The most obvious example would be if you do writing.  To write 500 words, which is about a page, it'll take you 10 minutes to...

Information overload can be costly in terms of time.  When you're stuck in information overload, it keeps you from taking action.  Months and even years pass by, but the lack of action causes a lack of results.  And your time ends up being wasted.

So it's important to avoid information overload.  But how do you avoid information overload?  The lure of reading another book or learning another tip can be tempting.

To avoid information...

Making decisions quickly can be tough.  For instance, when you see two alternatives that are appealing, it can be tough to choose only one of them.  Or you may have a fear from making the wrong decision, so it takes you a long time to settle on a decision.

An easy way to solve this problem is to put a time limit or deadline on your decisions.  This can be used for the simplest of decisions, such as what to eat for dinner, to more complex decisions, such as what...

After you finish your lecture, it can be tempting to kick back and relax.  Or if you have another class after the one you finished, you may be rushing to get to your next class.  But when you do that, you're losing an opportunity to reduce your studying time.

After class, the best thing to do is to immediately review your notes.  This is because the material is fresh in your head.  You're able to quickly understand the material and help get it into your...

Working long hours can be important to get more done.  But when you do it long-term, it can decrease your productivity.  And in the long-term, you end up doing less than if you stuck with shorter hours.

For instance, in 1926, Henry Ford was the one who popularized the 40-hour workweek.  His experiments had shown that decreasing the workday from 10 hours to 8 hours and the workweek from 6 days to 5 days increased total worker output.

You can do an...

An easy way to make the most of your time and get more done is to read faster.  By reading faster, you'll be able to read your emails faster.  You can get through important documents in a fraction of the time you're spending now.  And you can read more books in a year, increasing your knowledge faster.

One way to read faster is to learn speed reading.  You can also give PhotoReading a try.  PhotoReading isn't speed reading, but it's useful to filter...

I used to have a computer that took 5 minutes to start up.  Whenever I launched a program, it would take several seconds to load.  This computer used to be fast when it was first built, but nowadays, it's slow like a turtle.

Recently, I upgraded to a new computer.  The difference was big.  My new computer starts up in less than a minute.  Programs load in just a few seconds.  I can get things done much faster with my new computer.  It cost...

Keeping a time log can be beneficial.  If you feel there aren't enough hours in the day or there isn't enough time to get your work done, try keeping a time log.  You may be surprised to learn how you spend your time.  You may discover that you surf the web or chat with co-workers longer than you thought.

To keep a time log, whenever you start a new activity or task, write down the activity and the time you started doing it.  You want to write every...