Productivity and Goals
Support your weekly planning with a quick evening review
To make weekly planning successful, tools to use include the daily and evening reviews. A daily evening review can enhance productivity in several ways.
Break your goals down into bite-sized pieces with weekly planning
Weekly goal planning is a valuable practice for setting and achieving your objectives efficiently. But ranking projects, to-dos, and personal and health goals is not as simple as it sounds. Being on top of your schedule will help you focus on the most valuable and high-return areas.
Are your annual goals set? You’re all done then, right? Not if you want success!
Do you need help to stay on track, focusing your efforts to achieve short and long-term goals? Pick a method that allows you to do a daily goal review. Here's some methods.
Managing projects with Kanban
Kanban is a project management framework that visualizes work and helps teams manage their workflow efficiently. Many individuals are more visually driven vs. word and list driven. Kanban shows at a glance the status of specific tasks within a project, identifies bottlenecks, and can help show individuals who have been assigned more tasks than they can deliver.
Do you have 30 minutes? Set your annual goals!
Setting goals can seem like a very involved exercise and one that you don't have time for. But would you travel to somewhere new without your GPS? Here is a template to outline your goals in 30 minutes or less.
Work Time Blocking and Getting Things Done to Meet Your Goals
Time blocking, coupled with the “Getting Things Done” or GTD approach, may hold the secret sauce when it comes to both liberating your schedule and helping you keep the focus on your goals.
Time blocking involves scheduling almost all of the available times of your day. The schedule is based on the priorities of projects, personal and family time, blocks for unscheduled drop-ins, calls, and “putting out fires” time.
The goal is to schedule blocks of uninterrupted time to focus. Time blockers report zen like ability to focus and more significant achievements.
Hiding the menu bar when presenting full-screen in Canva
Canva is a great presentation tool and has a great library of resources, including pictures, videos, shapes, and gifs for any profession and corporate, school, or fun presentation. I wrestled with the following issue for a long-time and a lot of web and Youtube videos before accidentally finding a solution.
Presenting Canva in full-screen in its web version will still leave a sliver of the website menu at the top of the screen. That shouldn’t be part of the presentation, but how can we make that disappear? Here’s an easy fix.
Is 10,000 steps a day the magic number?
A Fitbit, the quality of your steps, and meeting goals.
These analogies fit how individuals can approach their goals. Some strive purposefully; others let life happen or re-up the same goals over and over again, wondering why their overall goals remain unfulfilled.