It doesn’t matter what your goals are, your ability to get things done is an integral part of achieving success. One way to be more productive is to create systems that compliment or enhance your efforts. The systems you use can range from the hour of day you choose to work, to finding and tools that can enhance your life. The tools below are meant to give you ideas. If these tools won’t work for you, then I hope you will make the effort to find those that will work for you.
Tools for better communication
Communicating is an integral part of setting and reaching goals. The way in which you share your ideas, get your point across, or simply to network, can be perceived as professional and efficient, or it can be viewed as amateur and ineffective. Here are three tools to help you present your best possible self.
- Google Chrome – Whether you’re using Google Mail or Google Docs. Google Chrome and its many extension has the capability to help you get productive and stay productive. Click here to view 40 extensions that can enhance your efforts.
- A Web site – It doesn’t matter if you’re trying to find a job or if you’re promoting your business. A website helps to communicate better by sharing your thoughts and vision.
- A Smart Phone – If you want a communication tool ready and available for use no matter where you are; then get a smartphone. It’s described as a portable office by many and a smart communicating device that can make your life easier.
Tools for better organization
It’s safe to say you cannot be productive if you are not organized. To remove the clutter around you, find tools that can enhance your efforts. The tools below are ideal tools you can use to remove the mess that may surround you.
- Evernote – One of the best tools available for removing paper clutter from your life is Evernote. Used in conjunction with the portable scanner mentioned below, you can be paper free and organized in no time.
- Portable Scanner – One of the best piece of hardware ever invented. With this device, used with Evernote, you will be amazed by the productivity and space you will create in your life
- The Salvation Army or Anywhere you can make a donation – If you are home reading this – stand up look around and really notice your environment and the clutter. I wish this was something only a few of us do, but the truth is we all accumulate unnecessary things. Declutter your life by taking the time to get rid of what you don’t need, that has no true benefit in your life.
Tools for a better mindset
Your mindset is the catalyst to everything you want to accomplish or will accomplish. Imagine if you don’t think highly of yourself, or if you doubt your capabilities, how much would you accomplish? One of the most important things you can do to have a productive, successful year is to pay attention to how you feel and what you think. The two tools below are certain to help you develop your best possible frame of mind.
- Journal – You can use it everyday, or only on days when you feel stressed. However you choose to use it, it will be the one most important step you can take to develop your strongest self. Choose to Journal the conventional way by using a notebook, or the 21st century way, by using an application such as Day One.
- Using Mind Mapping – Most have never heard of this tool, but its worth learning more about. One of its benefits is the ability to organize your thoughts, to take a plan or an idea that’s in your head and bring it to life and to fruition.
The tools we use won’t be responsible for our success that distinction falls entirely on you and the effort you extend towards pursuing your goals. What these or any tools you use can do is to create efficiency in your life. Efficiency will certainly lead to a more productive successful year.
