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Ever wonder why you make bad food choices at the end of a tiresome day, why normally sound people snap at loved ones, or why it’s so hard to decide on where to have dinner with your group of friends? Apparently, we have a finite store of mental energy for exerting self-control. People make bad […]

I use a large 36” x 24” whiteboard to keep track of all my work projects – I use the personal Kanban Method to manage this. Actually, the personal Kanban is a pattern – there is no set method and it is highly customizable. It is simply a (highly organized and effective) management system to […]

Are there any more reasons to celebrate chocolate aside from the fact that it makes everyone happy? Well, then we better have a holiday to celebrate this glorious thing! Oh, wait… We already have reserved a day to celebrate our love for all things chocolate. If you ask me, we should be doing this everyday. […]

Working while on vacation has become the norm. But it is still wise to use your vacation leaves in order to recharge and make sure you increase your productivity when you get back to work. According to this survey from Wrike, 40% of men and 30% of women plan to work while on vacation. So […]

Do you feel stuck today? Sitting in front of your computer, you look at your workload and scan a small notepad where you’ve written your to-do list that’s tacked off to the side of your monitor. The notepad says “send out event invitations”, “meeting at 1 pm”, and “create style guide” as your priority tasks […]

No matter how intent we are at trying to manage our productive time, there will always be a cause for a delay that is due to forces beyond our control. The possibility of delay can stem from various reasons, some of them are due to lack of foresight, some are due to bad time management, […]

Our bodies have a pre-programmed response to stress. It has a built-in safety system that, in the olden days, was meant to protect us against predators and life-threatening situations, such as bushfires and tornadoes. This is our fight or flight response, and it is a natural and healthy response to any perceived threat. Under stress, […]

Do you know what the biggest time waster at work is? No, it’s not checking your social media updates. Take another guess. It’s meetings. A few years back, emails were the biggest time wasters at work. Sending and replying to emails takes the top spot of biggest time waster at 57%. But if you factor […]

We all have days when we feel depleted and unproductive, as if all our energy and life force has been drained and, like a battery, needs to be recharged. We feel slow, sluggish, and our brain power may not be up to certain tasks. There are a lot of ways to recharge when you feel […]

A few weeks ago, I ran a series of posts on finding efficient work strategies and discovering productivity hacks. You can read about them here, here, and here. Here are a few more tips, but this time, the tips are all about mindfulness so that you can find the best hacks that work for you. […]

Do you know that there is such a thing as Smartphone Addiction? It is a very real thing and it even has a name. It’s called Nomophobia – or No Mobile phone phobia. Ladies and gentlemen, I kid you not. According to Caglar Yildirim of Iowa State University, one of the authors of a study […]

You’re almost always on time. You take strictly one-hour lunch breaks. You come prepared. You sometimes stay overtime. Why do you feel like you’re always out of time and not getting things done? Even if you log in the work hours, the complete 9 to 5, sometimes you feel it’s just not enough. The problem? […]

Technology makes it easier to get things done. It could also be argued that technology gave us the biggest time wasters (games, social media, cat videos) known to man. But most days, technology is our friend. It keeps us updated, helps us stay connected, and also help us get our work done (hopefully, you’re using […]

Facebook has been in the news yet again for yet another privacy and security issue. If you haven’t read about the Cambridge Analytica Scandal involving the social media giant yet, you can read it here. Information Privacy or data privacy is an important issue. Information privacy, or data privacy (or data protection), is the relationship […]

For the past 2 weeks, I talked about my quest for discovering productivity hacks and improving and developing my work strategies. I’ve shared some of the things I learned in parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part series. I talked about all day hacks last week. This week I would like to share the strategies […]