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Paul Ryan's List: Productivity
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I was a Bible college student when one of our chapels featured a guest speaker who taught us how to speed-read. At the time I didn't need the skill since most collateral reading assignments in my courses were under 500 pages, but I started practicing just for the fun of it -- sort of like a private parlor game. However all that changed when I wound up in graduate school at Princeton Seminary and several Profs. expected me to read several thousand pages of collateral along with the five or six textbooks. That's when I got serious about speed reading. Here is the collection of what I practiced then, and picked up since. The first thing I had to do was toss away the reading myths I had held so long.
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Whether you're hitting the textbooks in philosophy class, reading long-winded emails from co-workers or just reading the morning newspaper, chances are at one time or another you've wished you could read a little faster. So widespread is the desire to learn speed reading, in fact, that teaching the skill has become big business: a host of companies now offer books, training sessions and even computer programs to increase reading speed--sometimes at a cost of hundreds of dollars. But why fork over your paycheck or student loan money for a speed reading system when you can start reading faster today by following these simple steps?
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Sep 14, 08
Are you addicted to e-mail? Study finds the odds are good you checked your e-mail within the last 15 minutes. Here are five warning signs.
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Sep 09, 08
Email is proving a dangerous distraction and is just as addictive as gambling, writes Suw Charman-Anderson.
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Jun 23, 08
The information overload problem has reached a critical point. Workers drowning in their inboxes and jumping from task to task have now cost the nation $650 billion in lost productivity. A research group attempting to understand and combat the problem has
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Jun 23, 08
Information overload is no longer a joke. For those who suffered with this affliction, it never was, but now that there are real numbers attached to the problem, it has finally prompted companies to take action.
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Jun 23, 08
These days, it seems everyone has an opinion about how to deal with information overload, especially when it comes to email management. There are numerous methodologies, best practices, tips, and tutorials available, but are any of them really effective?
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Jun 23, 08
SAN FRANCISCO — The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. It is a common complaint. But now the very companies that helped create the flood are trying to mop it up.
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May 06, 08
When Citibank's Michael Hendriks got his BlackBerry, he hoped it would let him escape the tyranny of the inbox. However, like the millions of others who have taken to mobile email, he discovered that smartphones are no silver bullet for productivity.
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Apr 22, 08
E-MAIL has become the bane of some people’s professional lives. Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering new Internet companies, last month stared balefully at his inbox, with 2,433 unread e-mail messages, not counting 721 messages awaiting his attention in Facebook.
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Apr 01, 08
Years ago when Seinfeld was a new television show, Jerry Seinfeld was still a touring comic. At the time, I was hanging around clubs doing open mic nights and trying to learn the ropes. One night I was in the club where Seinfeld was working, and before he
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Apr 01, 08
In a small business, poor management of time will prevent the business from reaching its full potential. Many demands are made on you because you are totally responsible for operating the business. The workday can be long, tiring and frustrating due to po
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Apr 01, 08
"With all the time you spend watching TV," he tells me, "you could have written a novel by now." It's hard to disagree with the sentiment -- writing a novel is undoubtedly a better use of time than watching TV -- but what about the hidden assumption? Such
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Apr 01, 08
Conclusion of our two-part series on improving the quality of your to-do list. Yesterday’s post covered some basics and whys, the concept of the “next action,” and the importance of physicality.
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