Five articles to help you get more done
Written by Julia Bickerstaff // March 4, 2013 // scrapbook // No comments
Morning!
Here’s this week’s collection of articles from around the traps. We pick articles which we think will help you make a healthy income, work a little more productively or just inspire you to ‘get on with it’! Enjoy x.
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Did you know that a great way to make an unpleasant task more pleasant is to turn it into a habit? (Once something is a habit you no longer do the “thinking about” it bit and it’s the “thinking about” it bit that hurts!) Now one person’s unpleasant task may be another’s fun……but lot’s of us find chasing debts, updating our financial records, tidying up and marketing (!) a bit of a grind. Whatever your pick, how about turning it into a habit with these tips from zenhabits?
More on habits. But this time a habit to help your focus. It’s a distraction chair! Skip down to the heading “distraction chair” in the middle of this article. It’s simply fabulous!
I’m all for making life and business more simple. And a big part of that is saying ‘no’. Last week we had a ‘say no’ article and here’s another : Four easy to follow rules to help you work on the right stuff.
Do you ever find it difficult to get started? Do you faff about a bit? You probably know that I do as I wrote about my shortcomings (and tips to get over it!) a few weeks ago. If you need some more tips this article is fantastic. My fave tip: just start. It alwaysalways works for me.
And finally, for fun and ‘cos this is the sort of stuff that gets in the way of us working: The twenty-seven most important rules for keeping your house in order! Some of these are gems.
Till next week
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