Some gurus teach that you should feel inspired before you take action.  Or you should feel motivated or enthusiastic first.  In fact, there's a system out there that teaches you to feel good before you continue working.  Whenever you feel less enthusiastic, it teaches you techniques to bring your enthusiasm back up.  And once that's done, you get back to working.

I've personally tried using the system where you do techniques to bring your enthusiasm up...

While you're working, you might have a lot of programs running on your computer at the same time.  Your Windows taskbar might be filled up from left to right.  But the problem is that your working area on your monitor becomes cluttered.  It takes longer to find the program you need because you'll have to look through dozens of running programs.

That can slow down your productivity.

When you're working, try to minimize the number of programs running...

Most people seem to start their day in a rush – rushing to get ready, rushing with the breakfast, rushing to work. These people often spend their entire day in a rush, playing catch-up with the rest of the world. This can be easily avoided by getting up a little earlier. There are many other benefits of getting up early, but I will list the five that have always worked for me:

1. Gratefulness. It’s difficult to be grateful for the moment when you are getting late for...

A simple technique to increase your productivity is to increase your mouse pointer speed.  Increasing your mouse pointer speed will save you a few seconds each time you move your mouse.  But those few seconds can add up to a lot.

During the day when you're working on your computer, you probably move your mouse thousands of times across the screen.  Let's say that increasing your mouse pointer speed saves you 1 second each time you move it.  If you move...

When you go to the library, there are typically self-service checkout machines if the library is fairly large.  There is usually one big line-up where people have their books checked out by a librarian.   Next to that long line-up, there are several self-service checkout machines available to use.  The line-up for those machines tend to be shorter.

Instead of lining up to have your books checked out by the librarian, check them out using the self-service...

One way to save time is to simply read the newspaper less.  In fact, you might even go so far to even stop reading the newspaper altogether.  The newspaper is filled with crimes and bad news that wouldn't affect you anyway.  When you read the newspaper less, not only will you save time, but you'll feel more positive.

Let's say you spend 15 minutes a day reading the newspaper.  If you were to stop reading the newspaper, you'd save about 91 hours a...

While I have read many informative and insightful books on the subject oftime management, none have actually given me a practical means through which I can plan and manage my time better and overcome procrastination. That was until I discoveredThe Action Machine, a time management system that does just that.

What is The Action Machine?

The Action Machine is an effective time management system that enables you to manage and track all of the important...

I remember when computers were becoming really popular and we all thought they would take care of our paper work pile ups. A man working next to me said he thought they would create more paperwork nightmares. From my observations this has become true.

I have 9 tips on how to declutter paper in our homes and offices:

1. Create a filing system that works for you. I use Freedom Filer that is based on placing everything in color coded categories.  The first step is to...

We live life in the fast lane. We don't always have time to finish everything we started and sometimes, we don't even have the time to start anything at all. However, with the help of the right time management strategies, we can make time for everything!

You may sound pretty doubtful, but that's only because you've been stuck in no-time-for-everything land for too long.

To find out how to get out of your stump, check out these time management strategies.

It is quite surprising when you sit and think about where all the time in one day goes. Twenty four hours is really a lot of time. But on most days it scarcely seems enough. But this is because of certain misconceptions about time. Let us proceed to carefully examine where all that time goes and find out if twenty four hours really is.  For that I have listed out certain points which will help you to get a realistic view about how much time you really have in a...