If you have never used lists to help organize your workday – or perhaps, in the age of smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices, you believe lists are dinosaurs – it may be time re-consider.
What happens when you have to work, but you don’t want to? We’ve all experienced it. On a Sunday night, you hear yourself say, “I don’t want to go to work tomorrow.” Or, perhaps you are at work with a looming deadline on a big project, but you’re just not in the mood . . .
I just returned from an amazingly productive week at the SHRM 2013 Annual Conference in Chicago, where I presented a
What would happen if you stopped for a moment each week to define your true priorities and focused your time and energy on the tasks needed to complete them? Would you get more done? Would you feel better about what you accomplish each day?
Unlike 9 to 5 ‘ers, the work at home professional’s productivity is results based. Back in cubicle-land, you were expected to hang out from 8 am to 5 or 6 pm — no matter how you felt or what you accomplished. The measure was how many hours you put in. Not necessarily how effective you were.
