Tag: “Focus”

Cutting back on your sleep time because you have to work is, generally speaking, a bad idea. Sometimes it may seem necessary because someone has set an arbitrary deadline for a certain project and you have to spend a few days working 14 hours to make it on time.

We all have tasks in our Next Actions list that we are reluctant to do and tend to procrastinate or leave for another day.

Opportunity cost is a concept used in economics to identify the cost of not doing something. It’s the value of the alternative action lost in making a decision, and is usually a monetary value.

Regardless of the system you use to manage your projects and tasks, both professional and personal, there is something that is rarely discussed when talking about personal productivity, and yet is the foundation of any healthy productive behavior: the strategic allocation of your time.

Due to the great technological advances of recent years, we find ourselves at a moment in history in which we receive an amount of information, both on a personal and professional level, that is impossible to manage in its entirety. This can pose a serious threat to our productivity and even, if we don’t take the right measures, to our mental health.