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9 Steps to Supercharge Your Productivity with Creativity

By Avish Parashar

9 Steps to Supercharge Your Productivity with Creativity

Time is the great equalizer. Everybody has the exact same number of hours in each day. For most people, the hours available are usually less than the hours needed to get everything done. However, by using the following principles of creativity, you should be able get more done in less time, while making certain that you are doing what's most important and moving yourself closer to your goals.

1. Start with quiet focus

When you have a lot to do, your first instinct is probably to hit the ground running. If you feel you have a tremendous amount to do, you may feel the urge to jump in and get started on your work. Rather than doing that, take a few minutes to get calm and organize your thoughts. Think of this as a short form of meditation - just try to empty your mind. After you have done this, your focus, energy, and perspective will all be improved. Taking a few minutes up front to center yourself can make you tremendously more productive.

2. Brainstorm your day

Take a piece of paper (it can be a loose sheet, but it can be helpful if it's part of a designated notebook or planner) and write down everything you need to do that day. Let your mind flow, and get everything out. As with all creative exercises, don't criticize your ideas - don't think of something you'd like to do and then not write it down because you think you won't be able to do it or that you shouldn't do it. The most important thing here is that you get everything onto the page.

3. Apply the 80/20 Rule to your List

Take this list you've created and apply the 80/20 rule to it. Remember, 80 percent of your results come from 20 percent of your effort. Circle only the 20% of items that will yield 80% of those results. This step will focus your day down to the critical tasks you must get down.

4. Chunk Up

For each circled activity, chunk up. Put the bigger picture in perspective. This will refocus and motivate you to work on it. Or, it may make you realize that the task is not as important as you thought. Having a 'why' is very helpful in getting us to work towards our goal, especially if the task is something we're not excited about doing.

5. Chunk Down

For each circled item remaining on the list, chunk down. Break the items down into smaller parts. You should strive to get them to a point where each task is broken down into a series of single action items. How big each item is depends on your work style. I like my action items to be things I can complete between 15 minutes and 1 hour.

6. Prioritize your list

Prioritize every item on your list. A simple way to do this is look at your list and ask yourself, 'at the end of today, what one thing on my list, if finished, will have the biggest positive impact on my life?' The answer to that is your number one priority. Ask that question again with the remaining items on your list. That's your number two item. Continue this until your list is complete.

7. Schedule those activities

For every action item in step 5, schedule when you will do it and how long it will take. Resolve to stick to the schedule. You can take two approaches to scheduling. First, and the way to ensure you get the most important work done, is to schedule your first priority item first in the day, then your second, and so on. You can also schedule your high priority items during your most productive hours. You have high and low productive times during the day. You know when they are, not me (if you don't know, pay attention to yourself for the next couple of weeks and figure it out). Scheduling this way ensures you devote your best time to the most important activities, but if your most productive time is not first thing in the morning you run a greater risk of your high priority items not being done.

8. Go with the Flow

Be aware that the day has a way of stealing your time. Keep your 80/20 priorities in mind when new things come up. Make sure to prioritize and evaluate new things that come. Don't sacrifice an important item on your list to do something less important. At the same time, keep an open mind and be willing to flow with new items. Your schedule and list is there to help you - if something new comes up that will be more beneficial for you, go with it.

9. Go one at a time

Work through you list and schedule in the order you have it. For big tasks, don't be overwhelmed by the number of tasks, just work through them one at a time. Put your attention solely on the task at hand. For the vital action items, try to remove distractions. Turn off the phone, close the door, or work at a time when everyone else is asleep. You can finish a task that you might think would take you three hours in one hour if you put 100% of your attention on it.

Try following these 9 steps and watch your productivity explode!

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Hate It? Gotta Do It? Whatcha Gonna Do?

By Susan Dunn

Not to worry. There's lots of ways to skin a cat.
Sometimes I long for The Equalizer, or those "dirty deeds done dirt quick" guys. What am I talking about? Keeping lists, keeping records - two things I really hate to do . I'm a conceptual person, and little "detail" things drive me nuts.

Of course I can DO them. I was an event planner - it's nothing BUT details - but, I prefer to be creative and find other ways.

How about you?

I'm sure you have things on your "to-do" list you don't like to do. If they're big, we need to look at a different career or job, but if they're small, here are some ways to manage around a weakness.

1. Get a little better at it. Some things you've just got to be able to do-simple math to balance your checkbook. Just gotta hunker do wn and do it. Read, watch others, get a coach/tutor and don't agonize over your performance in these areas you know will never be that great. Get them up enough to allow you to play the game, and then don't worry about it - like Tiger Woods and his bunker shot. 2. Find the support system you need. When I was a fund-raiser, which didn't pull on my greatest strengths to begin with, I found it hard to start working donors (cold calls) first thing in the morning, so I used my secretary to "warm up" with--warm up my voice and ramp up my personality.

3. Make yourself promises. Make yourself report cards, or use your coach for accountability. If your filing is really out of control and causing you problems set aside one day a month to do the filing and stick to it. Choose an accountability system that works for you, The Gooding Accountability System - is a good one, or schedule a "Clean Sweep Day" with your coach. I did this four Mondays in a row with a client who was closing out his 25-year business and needed to go through files.

4. Memorize self-talk. Mary's job description is so vast and vague, she could get lost in it, and also hide away in the parts she likes best. Every hour or so at work when she feels overwhelmed by the choice of things she could be doing, she self-talks: "Q: What was I hired to do? A: I was hired to raise $1,000,000 this year. Q: What will best further that goal? A: This task." This helps her set her priorities, and keeps her focused.

5. Find a crutch that works. Free up worrying time and start applying it to honing your strengths. Buy a palm pilot; hire a temp one day a week; barter with your suite-mate; return phone calls with your cell phone while standing in line in the grocery - just do it. Got a home office with no extra room or computer? No excuses - there are virtual assistants now.

6. Use one of your strengths to overwhelm a weakness. Sam isn't naturally good with people; he's too introverted. His top theme is Intellection, so he studied how others do it, and makes a very good approximation for someone who'd rather be dealing with ideas than people.

7. Find a partner. Oliver was the rainmaker in the law firm. Holding the tax collection contracts for various cities, his day was filled with schmoozing. He partnered with a brilliant intellectual who was detail-oriented, had no need to be in the spotlight, was 100% reli able, and who churned out the paperwork and ran the calendar, presenting a perfect trial notebook to Oliver when it was time to go to court.

8. Delegate your weakness. A property management owner didn't like to deal with employees and their "problems." She hired a vice-president to do the training, HR and employee relations which freed her to go out and get new clients which was what she was good at.

9. Work with a complementry colleague. If you give ad presentations in pairs, make sure you're buddy is strong in numbers and facts if that's your weak suit.

10. Just stop doing it. The first thing I ask a client who's agonizing over being "organized," is "Who cares?" I mean that literally. Often when they start to answer this question, they discover they're the only one who cares. This comes up often with "filing" and "messy desks." When you're self-confident and UNAPOLOGETIC, you'll find most people will adopt your response. Which brings up the next topic --

11. Stop comparing yourself. If you're doing your job well, the means to the end don't matter that much. I paid a call once on a partner at Fulbright & Jaworski-no place for "disorganized" amateurs. His office looked like a bomb had gone off in it. There were piles of paper 5' high all around his office. He got a phone call, got up, walked over to the 3rd pile on the left, reached into the middle of it and pulled out a piece of paper. If you have a system that works for you, let it be.

11.And - keep your sense of humor about it all. Keep it in perspective.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster." -- Nietzsche

About the Author

Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach, GLOBAL EQ. Emotional intelligence coaching to enhance all areas of your life - career, relationships, midlife transition, resilience, self-esteem, parenting. EQ Alive! - excellent, accelerated, affordable EQ coach certification. Susan is the author of numerous ebooks, is widely published on the Internet, and a regular speaker for cruise lines. For marketing services go here.

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Able Graphic Manager has been released!

By Anonymous

Able Graphic Manager is a program that enables you to easily view, acquire, print and convert graphic files in normal (file by file), batch (many files at a time) and command line modes.
Input formats: Drawing Interchange Format (DXF) generated by most CAD programs, TIFF Bitmap (TIF; TIFF), JPEG Bitmap (JPG; JPEG; JPE), JPEG2000 (JP2, J2K and JPC), PaintBrush (PCX), Windows Bitmap (BMP;DIB;RLE), Portable Network Graphics (PNG), Windows Metafile (WMF), Enhanced Windows Metafile (EMF), Targa Bitmap (TGA; TARGA; VDA; ICB; VST; PIX), Portable Pixmap, GreyMap, BitMap (PXM; PPM; PGM; PBM), Windows Icon (ICO), Windows Cursor (CUR).
Output formats: JPG,TIF,PCX,PNG,BMP,TGAGIF,WMF,EMF,PXM,PPM,PGM,PBM.
Drag and Drop supported. Batch Process mode (convert and print).
Command Line mode (view, convert and print). There is an opportunity to select files using ìàsk (*).
Image acquisition from TWAIN scanners with full control of the scanner capabilities.
Image processing (Equalize, Contrast, RGB, HSV, HSL, FFT, convert to 24 bit, gray and B&W).
Copy to clipboard and Crop functions.
Effects (Negative, bump map, lens, wave, morph, user filters).
Viewing
- Two color mode (color and monochrome)
- Any size (6 modes of a sizes setting)
- Extents selection (4 items)
- Any aspect ratio
- Any image resolution at saving to file
- Zoom (in, out, fit, window)
- Zoom filter (7 items)
- Scroll
- Entities Manager - display management of entities.
Printing
- Any system printer (from dialog window)
- Color or monochrome printing.
- Advanced print control.
- Batch printing.
- Printing via command line.
- Multipage documents are supported.
Displayed entities (DXF-files)
- Arc - Attrib - Blocks - Circle - Dimension - Ellipse - Elliptic arc - Hatch (including solid) - Leader - Line - LwPolyline - MultiLine Text - Point - Polyline - Solid - Spline - Text - Unicode Text (multilingual) - Trace - 3DFace ...


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