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	<title>Justin Lloyd &#187; Productivity</title>
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		<title>Urgency = Procrastination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you deal mostly with urgent tasks in your day-to-day work?
Unless you are a fire fighter or paramedic most of your work should consist of well-planned, directed tasks. Tasks that should have been decided upon well in advance, days or perhaps even weeks ahead of time. You should be able to predict, with a reasonable [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #14: How To Cut Your E-mail Clutter With Automated Tools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever tried to organise a really, REALLY, REALLY messy room?
Picture a messy, disorganised, cluttered, upside-down room. No, not that one, messier! Almost there! Messier still! Got it?


Okay, now imagine you have to organise it. But, you cannot throw anything out, and there just is not enough space to hold everything even if you could arrange [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #13: Why Conducting Research Can Be Counter-Productive</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/689-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-13-why-conducting-research-can-be-counter-productive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are few endeavours in life that require you to immediately stop what you are doing, go off and read a couple of pages in a book, browse through Google Groups or search Stackoverflow for a close enough answer and then return to work.
And yet, this is what people do all the time.


Stuck for an [...]


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		<title>Turn Off, Unplug, Tune Out!</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/669-turn-off-unplug-tune-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discipline]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You do not have to be available 24/7. Life carried on just fine without you, before you showed up, and it will carry on just fine long after you are gone.
Less e-mail, less contact, less messaging, less calling, less technology, all of it pulling you this way and that to see if you are paying [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #12: Why You Need To Seek Professional Help</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/684-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-12-why-you-need-to-seek-professional-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinlloyd.org/684-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-12-why-you-need-to-seek-professional-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems I am on a bit of an “outsourcing” drive at the moment, advocating that people find other ways of boosting productivity rather than doing the work themselves. It might feel that way to some, but I think my stance is that freeing up time for other activities, other far more important activities, is [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #11: How You Delegate Every Day But Do Not Realise It</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/671-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-11-how-you-delegate-every-day-but-do-not-realise-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinlloyd.org/671-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-11-how-you-delegate-every-day-but-do-not-realise-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the new Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off, several hours late because I spent my entire day designing and building cabinets and bookcases as part of my “enforced vacation time” away from the office.
This week, delegation of your crap to someone else.


Perhaps I should take my own advice someday and delegate the building of bookcases to [...]


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		<title>We Have Ways Of Making You (NOT) Work</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/665-we-have-ways-of-making-you-not-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.justinlloyd.org/665-we-have-ways-of-making-you-not-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week of July 4th is upon us once more, and sticking to Infinite Monkey Factory&#8217;s (IMF) personal time policy, our office will be officially closed all next week, as part of IMF&#8217;s ensured &#34;vacation time&#34; for each employee.
How does this affect you?


Well, it does not, unless you work for us.  
That said, one [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #10: How To Procrastinate Smarter Not Harder</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/652-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-10-how-to-procrastinate-smarter-not-harder/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the next article in my Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off series. This week, how to procrastinate properly.
Procrastinate Smarter Not Harder
I believe the reason that many people procrastinate so much is that they take too much time to &#34;do nothing,&#34; but the time taken is in an unstructured, haphazard way and afterwards they permit themselves to [...]


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		<title>Why Do You Write?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write because I am afraid my head will explode if I do not.
I write because the discipline to write is easier to acquire than the discipline to stop myself from writing.


I write because I am driven to create.
Why do you write?
ShareThis


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Areas That I Write About
How Far Ahead Do You [...]


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		<title>Tuesday Time-Wasting Tip-Off #9: Kill Your Messenger</title>
		<link>http://www.justinlloyd.org/639-tuesday-time-wasting-tip-off-9-kill-your-messenger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Lloyd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to this week&#8217;s instalment of Tuesday&#8217;s Time-Wasting Tip-Off, each week, techniques and tips that can optimise your life and make you more productive. This week, the bane of corporate networks and productivity everywhere, instant messaging.
Kill Your Instant Messenger
I used to be a huge instant messaging junkie, and have gone through periods of having dozens [...]


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