Productivity

Unfortunately, most productivity books don’t really go into detail about how to implement your Projects and Next actions into a digital system. After lots of trial and error, this is my interpretation on how to best integrate a productivity system into a digital environment using productivity apps If you want to go less digital, you …

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“The Mind is Meant for Creating Ideas, Not Storing Them” -Physician Zen Being a health professional is not easy. We are constantly stressed with attempts to juggle multiple projects and tasks at once. It feels like our work, career, and personal life are pulling our minds in all directions. In order to stay afloat we …

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Electronic Mail was first invented in 1971 by Ray Tomlinson and the term EMAIL was founded by Shiva Ayyadurai in 1982. Regardless to say, the introduction of email has drastically changed the way we work and communicate with one another on a day to day basis.  Email gives people infinite access to you. An office …

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I found that creating a consistent system for organizing the digital environment has been a challenge for myself as well as others throughout the years. After going through several resources and doing things by trial and error, I came up with a system that works the best for myself. I have had others try this …

How to Organize the Digital Workspace and be Productive (Step 6 of 12) Read More »

I find that managing the digital workspace is one of the most difficult areas to manage. With the advancement of technology, data storage is getting larger and cheaper. This allows for accumulation of massive amounts of digital files that are unsorted.  I did a quick google search and found that 1 Terabyte of storage can …

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One of the most difficult parts of having a productivity system is continuously having to deal with stuff that comes up in our physical workspace. Most of the time, things are just left on the desk to be dealt with later on. This will can lead to the accumulation of piles of unsorted things. Having …

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“Unnecessary Items = Distractions = Decreased Productivity” How we set up the physical workspace is often neglected. If you completed the previous step (Step 2), then you experienced how easily things can accumulate in your environment without realizing it. We often feel obligated to keep things we don’t need or guilty about throwing things away …

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“I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can’t think properly. If you’ve got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.” -Simon Cowell I remember as a medical student, I didn’t really give much thought to how important organizing my physical environment was. I was swamped with textbooks, curriculum documents, journal articles, …

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