From the category archives:

Productivity

Be Ready to Step Into a New Decade

by Jorge Fusaro on December 22, 2009 · 1 comment

Ever since High School, December has been an introspective month where I usually spend most of my time reflecting on the past 11 months. I look at my work, family, relationships, community, faith, decisions/choices made, etc. Yet most of my time investment goes into taking a sincere look at myself. I revisit personal goals to [...]

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Too Much on Your Plate, Try FAT!

by Jorge Fusaro on May 18, 2009 · 0 comments

Are you overwhelmed with paper and emails? Did you run out of space in your file cabinet? Is there too much on your plate, and you don’t know where to begin?
FAT is an acronym for a simple, smart, and effective way of getting-things done.
The FAT system was originally designed as a way to handle paper [...]

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How to Do Things Just Once

by Jorge Fusaro on May 7, 2009 · 7 comments

When Henry Ward Beecher was asked how he could accomplish so much more than others, he replied,

“I don’t do more, but less than other people. They do all their work three times. Once in anticipation, once in actuality, and once in rumination. I do mine in actuality alone, so I end up doing things [...]

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Keep Your Eyes on the Ball and Score

by Jorge Fusaro on April 23, 2009 · 0 comments

Sports, in general, are all about keeping your eyes on the ball in order to score and win. The goal is accumulating points to out beat the competition, until the time runs out or the game is over. The one with the best score wins.

Winning is ultimately based on how well you played the game.
Scoring [...]

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Focus: The Secret Weapon of Winners

by Jorge Fusaro on March 27, 2009 · 1 comment

As a personal coach, one of the main areas I get to work with people is to develop and monitor the ability to “focus” in their lives and career. Coaching can help you stay in focus, week after week.
Are you easily distracted by trivial sounds, someone walking by, or by new thoughts that cross your [...]

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One task at a time tool! (Nowdothis)

by Jorge Fusaro on March 10, 2009 · 0 comments

Brilliant idea!
Do you need to focus on ONE TASK at a time? Let your web browser tell you what to do and when!
http://www.nowdothis.com
I have found this tool really helpful in keeping me focused on one task at a time rather than falling in the endless trap of multitasking that does not work for me. [...]

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Do you have a stop-doing-list?

by Jorge Fusaro on February 26, 2009 · 0 comments

Look at your to-do list. How many items do you find that have been there for months. Do they really need to get done? What if you deleted them?

The first rule of getting something done is identifying and knowing what does not need to get done.
List those tasks where you get “caught up” everyday. Create [...]

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Habits: Working for or against you?

by Jorge Fusaro on February 24, 2009 · 1 comment

Research shows it takes at least 21 days to create or break a habit. Today is February 24th. You are on the eight week of 2009. Fifty days have gone by already since the first of the year.
What have you accomplished in these 50 days? What New Year Resolution(s) did you forget or postpone for [...]

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Rolodex Power

by Jorge Fusaro on December 11, 2007 · 0 comments

Women have an innate gift to connect and sustain relationships. This gift continues to pay off in the business world, especially virtual enterprises. Businesses today will not get very far without women in leadership! Tom Peters  in The Pursuit of Wow! (p. 36) writes:
Rolodex power. Your power is almost directly proportional to the thickness of your Rolodex, and the [...]

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Starting Early

by Jorge Fusaro on June 21, 2007 · 0 comments

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise” – Benjamin Franklin
I have always admired people who wake up really early to feed their child, go for a run, hit the gym, read, spend extra time on prayer and reflection, or write in the tranquility of dawn- before going to [...]

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