You might be tempted to take your work home with you on your days off, but before you succumb to this Ridiculously Efficient sin, try these ways to boost productivity and reclaim your weekend. 1. Leverage Parkinson's Law. Artificially constrict work periods and attack tasks with a sense...
A core tenet of Ridiculously Efficient productivity is systematically hacking your workday for maximum effectiveness using what I'm calling the Track, Hack and Attack method. Phase 1: Track You cannot improve what you cannot measure. Track every aspect of your workday for a week -- work periods, breaks,...
Parkinson's Law may have first appeared in print as part of a humorous essay, but this real-life phenomenon is a core principle of the Ridiculously Efficient workflow. Learn how to make Parkinson's Law work for you. For those unfamiliar, the adage goes, "Work expands so...
A study published in the October 2011 issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin supports a key Ridiculously Efficient tenet: create urgency to incentivize productivity. In the study, researchers asked women to list a tempting but unhealthy snack. Half of the women were told to remember that if they...
