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Time Management
Neglected And Important Tasks
Tasks that are important but not urgent are the most neglected. These include researching, documenting, planning and ...
Don't Let the 'Urgent' Overtake the 'Important'
Urgent And Important Tasks
Many tasks fall into the urgent and important category and have to be prioritized in your to-do list as critical. Fo...
Don't Let the 'Urgent' Overtake the 'Important'
Avoiding Urgent Tasks
Urgent tasks are the ones that are not adding any value but come up to be done at that moment. The right approach is ...
Don't Let the 'Urgent' Overtake the 'Important'
Time-Wasting Tasks
Some tasks are neither urgent nor important, but as these time-wasting tasks are in front of us, we end up consuming ...
Don't Let the 'Urgent' Overtake the 'Important'
Urgent Vs Important
A lot of people make the mistake of turning down important work due to urgent work that comes up suddenly. A task re...
Don't Let the 'Urgent' Overtake the 'Important'
Being "Very Busy"
To keep complaining to others about how busy you are is useless and it makes others anxious around you.It also shows ...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Limit Your To-Dos
Just have a 5 item limit on your daily to-do list instead of an endless and overwhelming list of work to be done, sta...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Slow Down
We live in an urgency-addicted world, fueled by technology. While it may seem counterintuitive, it is a good idea to...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Work Creates More Work
Some work (like answering all your emails to clear your inbox) creates more work, and while completing that work may ...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Don't Hoard Your Time
We normally safeguard and 'hoard' our limited time. If you feel you have no time, just do something opposite: give a...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Pre-crastination
Doing tasks too early, the opposite of procrastination is also a cause of being avoidably busy. We end up doing triv...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Build Buffers in Time Allocations
A task normally takes longer than the time allotted, so it is a good idea to allow buffer time around tasks so that a...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Strategic Incompetence
At your workplace, if it is accepted by you and declared to your peers that you are not good at doing a certain job o...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Respect your rhythms and body clocks
Humans are not a machine or a piece of equipment, that can be made to work overtime and show more productivity. We d...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Accept Defeat
Time and resources are limited but 'everything that is to be done' is always unlimited, so there is bound to be a com...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Busy Being Busy
We are far too busy in ways not imagined before, though productivity hasn't increased proportionally. Studies sh...
Overwhelmed? 10 ways to feel less busy
Get Some Sleep
Instead of burning the midnight oil working on your passion, you are much better off prioritizing sleep, and it can a...
5 ways to pursue a passion project while working a full-time job
Track And Review
At the end of the week or the month, review and track your progress, reminding yourself of the goals you have achieve...
5 ways to pursue a passion project while working a full-time job
5 Of 7 Rule
Instead of committing to yourself to work your passion project every day, try to give it 5 days in a week, or even fe...
5 ways to pursue a passion project while working a full-time job
Time Allotment Myth
While we normally would allot a day or a weekend for our passion project, we end up not moving forward in spite of th...
5 ways to pursue a passion project while working a full-time job