How do you boost productivity with cleaning up messes? It doesn’t matter what you do or who you are, chances are you have messes in your life right now. Look in your garage, look under your sink, look in your child’s bedroom—there’s usually a mess there. I have three tips on how to eliminate messes. By eliminating messes, by making your home or office less cluttered, it allows you to become a more productive person. You’ll be able to get more done faster, better, and easier. Here are the three tips:

Tip Number 1: Chunk down your messes into smaller, manageable groups. I’ll give you an example. Let’s say I have 50 objects on my garage floor, and I want to chunk those down into manageable groups. I don’t try to get rid of all 50 at the same time. Instead, I’ll find five boxes and [Read more...]

I recently came across a video on the official Harvard Business Review YouTube channel titled, The Secret Weapon of Great Leaders, and thought it would be a good topic to start a discussion about here on this site. In the video, author and business professional Melba Duncan makes a case for why executives and leaders should hire executive assistants. She explains that leaders with executive assistants have the ability to become more successful, more productive, and can even [Read more...]