To-Do Lists and The Structured Procrastinator. Many procrastinators use to-do lists.
And indeed they can be useful. But what exactly are to-do lists for? The structured procrastinator will have in his mind, or perhaps written down somewhere, a priority list; the things he needs to do, at some time or other. The seemingly important tasks will be at the top, motivating him to do tasks further down the list as a way of procrastinating. Study Guides and Strategies. Less Wrong. Your Concentration Training Program: 11 Exercises That Will Strengthen Your Attention.
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MS Outlook is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Hard work doesn’t always equate to a job well done. © iStockphoto/SumikoPhoto It's the end of another busy working day and, even though you came into the office early and left late, you don't feel as if you've accomplished anything significant. Improve Your Concentration. Achieving Focus Amid Distractions Learn how to improve your concentration, in this short video.
How many times have you sat at your desk and tried to focus on a task, only to find that your mind is wandering? Despite your best intentions, you just can't concentrate. We've all been in this familiar, frustrating situation, and it's something that can really undermine your performance. In this article, we'll review strategies to improve your concentration and reduce your daily distractions. Environment Your personal work environment plays a large role in your ability to concentrate. Here are some ideas for improving your physical environment: Is This a Morning Task? Scheduling Important Activities for the Right Time of Day When are you at your most energetic?
© iStockphoto/LP7 Like many of us, Alys's job has a mix of regular, routine duties that are usually urgent – as well as longer-term, more important tasks that are usually less urgent. She spends her mornings on the urgent tasks that she must get done. Beating Procrastination. It's Friday afternoon and the clock is ticking.
You're working furiously to complete a task before the five o'clock deadline, while silently cursing yourself for not starting it sooner. How did this happen? What went wrong? 4 Lean Strategies You Can Use To Innovate Your Life. Wouldn’t it be great if we could extract the strategies that go into developing the world’s greatest technological advances and use them for our own personal development?
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Many of us believe life will be better by reaching those goals, so we make our plans, put our nose to the grindstone, and work our butts off until we’re there. Many high achievers I’ve worked with over the years reach their goals, but they end up missing their lives in the process--and not in a trivial “I’m-working-too-hard-to-have-friends” kind of way. No, they reach their goals and discover they were the wrong goals and the wrong path to get there. 1472. Brain Hacks. ...For answer Holmes clapped the hat upon his head.
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“Music helps me concentrate,” Mike said to me glancing briefly over his shoulder. Mike was in his room writing a paper for his U.S. History class. 10 best competitive intelligence tools from 10 experts. Posted on October 19, 2014 by Rob Petersen inShare117 Sun Tzu’s wisdom in The Art of War is as true today as it was in 500 B.C. Competitive Intelligence is the gathering of publicly-available information about an enterprise’s competitors and the use of that information to gain a business advantage.
The goals of competitive intelligence include discerning potential business risks and opportunities and enabling faster reaction to competitors’ actions and events. If Sun Tzu were with us today, he would probably be using digital competitive intelligence tools to understand his adversaries. Here are 10 experts giving us their best competitive intelligence tools: GOOGLE TRENDS: Measuring individual sites (yours or competitor) is good but the real fun in this is comparing trends.
Bob, champion de la procrastination. L'année dernière (2012), la branche "Sécurité informatique" de Verizon a réalisé un audit pour l'un de ses clients et ce qu'elle a découvert est réellement hallucinant ! Je vous raconte... La société auditée a mis en place depuis plusieurs mois, un VPN avec authentification en 2 étapes pour permettre à ses informaticiens de travailler à la maison.
Mais après avoir regardé les logs du VPN, le responsable de la sécurité est tombé sur des accès directs en provenance de Chine. Ça craint à mort puisque la société en question est dans un secteur industriel sensible, que l'authentification en 2 étapes tourne avec des clés RSA uniques générées toutes les x secondes, et que le développeur qui est censé utiliser cette connexion VPN depuis chez lui, n'est pas chez lui, mais devant son poste de travail, au bureau. Pour le responsable de la sécurité, ça sent le hacking à plein nez !
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