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5 Ways to Fight Cyberloaf Monday

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Researchers have deemed today, the day after the spring time shift, Cyberloaf Monday due to the massive productivity losses that occur compared to previous and future Mondays. [Read more...]

20+ Unconventional Productivity Strategies

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Ridiculously Efficient readers are familiar with efficiency strategies like working in spurts, leveraging Parkinson’s Law and managing decision fatigue; this list of unconventional productivity strategies shares novel ideas to boost effectiveness. [Read more...]

Shorten Your Workday With Non-Resolutions

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To make resolutions you'll actually keep, make non-resolutions. (CC) Kate Ter Haar/Flickr

An article I read today shared a surprising strategy for making New Year’s resolutions, one that also translates to productivity: non-resolutions. [Read more...]

Ridiculously Efficient Productivity: Track, Hack and Attack

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A core tenet of Ridiculously Efficient productivity is systematically hacking your workday for maximum effectiveness using what I’m calling the Track, Hack and Attack method. [Read more...]

5 Ways to Inhibit Decision Fatigue for Maximum Productivity

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Decision fatigue — the phenomenon of making poorer decisions after long decision-making periods — is a huge productivity pitfall. [Read more...]