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8 reasons you are always out of time

Published on October 29, 2010 in Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: 7 reasons why you are time poor, have enough time, laziness, out of time, postpone activities, schedule, stress, tasks, time management.

Whether you are an employee, employer, freelancer or student, time might be a real problem for you.
Skipping from one activity to another, at the end of the day you realize that most of the tasks scheduled are uncompleted or you donâ€™t even have the time to take a look over them. Why? Because you donâ€™t have enough time!

Well, sorry to disappoint you but time doesnâ€™t move faster than in the past. What make you feel like “oh God itâ€™s already evening” is related to you habits and life style.

1.Information and technology.

Decades ago, life was pretty simple and information was less. These daysâ€™ people are bombarded with new technologies and some will easy your work but some will just distract you from work.

2.Unfinished tasks.

If you are the kind of person that starts a task but skip to another before finishing the previous one, then you definitely like to complicate things. Tasks undone will actually create more work for you because they take more time to pick back up when you return to them. Continue reading ’8 reasons you are always out of time’

Do we really have to give up on coffee to increase productivity?

Published on April 27, 2010 in HowTo and Productivity. 0 Comments Tags: caffeine, coffee, concentration, give up coffee, increase productivity, stress.

Iâ€˜ve read many articles lately on how to give up on your coffee habit, how coffee can decrease productivity etc. Iâ€™m not a scientist to say this is true or not, but I had so many experiences that now I stopped believing everything I read or see. Itâ€™s important to take only the right and good information and to adapt it to your situation.

Based on some study, companies were advised to limit how much coffee and tea employees are drinking during working hours. In the study was mentioned that drinking 350mg of caffeine can cause lapses in concentration and increased stress. Just to make an idea, it is considered that an average cup of coffee contains about 100mg of caffeine. Continue reading ‘Do we really have to give up on coffee to increase productivity?’

Managing stress during financial crisis

Published on March 24, 2009 in Business Tips, HowTo, Misc and Productivity. 2 Comments Tags: bill, diet, economy, financial crisis, financial stress, manage stress, phisical, psihical healthy, stress, stress poll, stress researches.

Lately, I?ve met more and more people concerned about their workplace situation and job position. Poll results from previous years showed that the people were living with extreme stress and the main source of stress was the work.

This is a well known fact, but what we don?t know is that the stress level has increased significant during this financial crisis. Accordingly to a non-scientific poll 70 % of the participants confirmed that ?Yes, I’m very stressed about it right now!? and only 10 % said that the financial crisis does not influence their life at all.

?Financial stress can cause your whole cardiovascular system to be off,? says Louise Hawkley, PhD, associate director of the Social Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Chicago.

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