Do You Make Things Happen or Just Fill Time?

Innovative gadgets and mobile devices have brought great ease and efficiency to the workplace, but I’m convinced they’ve also become huge time-wasters. How often do you spend hours answering email and think you’ve actually accomplished something? Are you spending time in endless meetings to avoid actually making decisions? Do you have beautiful ‘to-do’ lists, but don’t actually finish anything?

I have 5 suggestions to help you quit your wasting time to boost your productivity. After all, you don’t want to get to the end of your life and realize your only real accomplishment was sending and receiving 10 billion email messages:

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About the Author

Phil Cooke is a television producer and media consultant at Cooke Pictures in Burbank, California. His new book is ‘Jolt! Get the Jump on a World That’s Constantly Changing.‘. Find out more at philcooke.com.

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