Track & Confirm. USPS - The United States Postal Service (U.S. Postal Service) 16 Things I Wish They Had Taught Me in School. I am 28 now. I don’t think about the past or regret things much these days. But sometimes I wish that I had known some of things I have learned over the last few years a bit earlier. That perhaps there had been a self-improvement class in school. And in some ways there probably was. Because some of these 16 things in this article a teacher probably spoke about in class. But I forgot about them or didn’t pay attention. Some of it would probably not have stuck in my mind anyway.
But I still think that taking a few hours from all those German language classes and use them for some personal development classes would have been a good idea. So here are 16 things I wish they had taught me in school (or I just would like to have known about earlier). 1. This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as you may think. You can just drop – or vastly decrease the time you spend on – a whole bunch of things. 2. 3.
How to Stay On-Task...Every Day. Whether you work for yourself or for an employer, spending hours surfing the net and updating your Facebook profile won’t get you any closer to your goals … yet you find it hard to keep on-task. Even when you do try to concentrate, you might get to 5pm and feel like you’ve not accomplished anything. Here’s how to stay focused and get more done – every day. Minimize InterruptionsIf you live alone and work from home, interruptions are unlikely to be a big problem. If you work in a busy office and your job involves a lot of reactive tasks, like answering phone calls or emails from clients, you might be getting interrupted every few minutes.
Your target isn’t to cut out interruptions altogether – that’s not realistic – but to get rid of as many as you can. Close your email program – if necessary, check it once every 30 minutes to ensure there’s nothing genuinely urgentLet your phone go to voicemail – or ask a colleague to cover it for an hour or two. Label the distraction in your mind. Productivity.