1. Millionaire Mommy Next Door shares a useful tool…. from the kitchen:
“My favorite productivity tool is a digital kitchen timer. Nothing can sideswipe your attention and redirect your efforts quite like the world-wide-web. The timer keeps me focused, motivated and targeted on the individual task at hand. Identify your daily, weekly and monthly activities, set a time limit for each one, and start the digital timer in countdown mode. Save your favorite activities for last to serve as your reward for staying on task. More on this technique here.”
2. StarXLR8 shares a blogging tool tip (plus more):
“Transitioning from blogging online with WordPress to using Ecto offline is my biggest blogging productivity secret. I have much more flexibility in brainstorming, planning and organizing my thoughts and ideas for the next great post.
I would say that future date posting comes in second – as Darren said today and Leo at Zen Habits a few days ago – you can take advantage of creative bursts that appear like consistency to your user. This gives me more time to read and respond to comments.”
3. Michael from Pro Blog Design shares about how motivation is a key for him and how he uses a plugin to help him in this:
“I’m most productive when I’m motivated, so my best productivity tip is one that makes me motivated. I use the Updated Today plugin, in combination with a trick I created to show something only to the blog admin on WordPress. Whenever I have written a post today, I see a little yellow banner up at the top of my blog. That let’s me know that I’ve accomplished something today. If I don’t see it, then it’s a great motivator to actually do something!”
4. Brian Friedlander shares another useful technique:
“I always have a mindmapping application out that I can use to brainstorm and capture my ideas with. If I come across an interesting website I link it to my mindmap so that I can go back to it later. This really helps me to focus and when I am ready to write I just pull up my midmap and have all my resources in one place.”
