Archives For Productivity

How can I personally be more effective in what I do? How can I get more done of the tasks which are important to me? What are my important tasks in the first place? Here are all articles about improving your productivity and defeating the causes that sometimes keep us from getting started and procrastinating instead of doing what we need to do. A core part of productivity is understanding time-management and to have a productivity system that specifically works for you, which can be simple or more sophisticated. First and foremost productivity starts with what to do: in other words with your GOALS. We also look at what other people such as Stephen Covey said about getting things done. Another area is simplicity which is the approach of keeping life simple in order to stay away from unwanted stress and live a life in balance.

How to Make a Good Decision

written by Myrko Thum at February 19, 2013 in Productivity — 1 Comment
Make a Decision or Flip a Coin

Recently I’m looking for a new home here in Berlin. Since we are looking to become a family soon, it’s time for a change. The market has gotten a lot tougher here in the last 2 years, which was when I first moved here. Many good homes are gone or overly pricy now.
Still, finally we thought we found something right. So we made the deal only to realize the day after that if you are really it’s just too loud with the traffic outside, especially for a family. So we want to get out again and have produced a bit of a mess all by ourself.
It wasn’t a good decision. That kept me wondering how this really bad decision could’ve happened in the first place?

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The Little Guide on How to Work from Home

written by Myrko Thum at January 21, 2013 in Productivity — 2 Comments
Work From Home

I’m working from home for over 3 years now. I worked in an office environment 9 years before that and enjoyed especially the company of self-minded and creative colleagues around me. So I’ve seen both scenarios lately and still decided to keep my home-office for the time being. Here are the most important insights I made to make working from home really work out for you…

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Plan Next Year with My 2-Step Yearly Review and Planning Process

written by Myrko Thum at December 28, 2012 in Productivity — 7 Comments
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The time right now is among my personal most enjoyable times of the year. Between Christmas and New Year’s Day is the perfect time to really reflect back on the last 12 month and then go ahead and plan next year.

And in fact, if you haven’t done a yearly plan so far, I would highly recommend that you start doing this review & planning process now for this and the coming year. You will be amazed at what this reviewing & planning can do to your overall sense of direction and practical achievement. It will take under 1 hour and it will be way worth it.

For me, this process is one of the biggest sources for what I would call my personal successes. It is a 2 step process of I. Reviewing and II. Planning.

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Why Simple is the New Intelligent

written by Myrko Thum at December 13, 2012 in Productivity — 2 Comments
simple flower

For a while now I try to keep things simple. That means I try to avoid unnecessary additional overhead to what I do, have or I’m in relationship with. I feel like this is one of the very best productivity habits to have. It takes a lot of intelligence to reach that essential state from where things just flow. But I noticed that in order to build the simplicity habit, you have to develop one particular skill.

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How to Keep Going Even If You Don’t Feel Like It

written by Myrko Thum at December 10, 2012 in Productivity — 4 Comments
keep going and follow through

It’s a very common thing: You set out some nice plans and started very motivated with something that seemed so important to you at the time. But then, somehow, it wears off. The initial drive is gone, things seem to be tough again, it’s no fun anymore. And somehow it doesn’t look so interesting anymore, anyway. What happened? The simple answer: You didn’t follow through. But why?

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Don’t think. Do.

written by Myrko Thum at December 4, 2012 in Productivity — 4 Comments
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This is kind of my mantra at the moment. It’s amazing how much time I can waste trying to over-think a situation sometimes. There is a name for that: paralysis by analysis. So lately I deliberately prohibit myself to do excessive over-thinking and analyzing of a situation. Instead I force myself to just act… Here are the 5 best hacks to stop over-thinking and take effective action again.

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Is No Goal the Better Goal?

written by Myrko Thum at November 19, 2012 in Productivity — 5 Comments
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I personally believe in the power of setting the right goals in order to make difficult changes in my life. But I also enjoy my time of feeling just in flow with what I do and create really good results this way. Can you only get what you want and be really productive by setting goals or is there also a way without goals? Let’s see if the no goals approach has any merit to it and if even the goal-setting idea is something of the past…

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