Drawing #1 - how to - from 12 Drawings That Will Change Your Life - a Calendar that Teaches

In order to achieve your full potential you need to understand what constitutes a high achiever. High achievers have a combination of talent, dedication and luck as well as intelligence, skill and the drive to be successful. You can probably think of several people who you consider to be highly successful in one area of their lives, work for example, but are lacking in other areas such as home or family life. Achieving your full potential will mean a good balance between all aspects of your life.

If you have ever wondered why it seems that some people are more prone to be experts than others you are probably not alone. Many people think that experts were born with some sort of aura around them that points them to the perfect place at the perfect time and allows them to know all. This simply is not true. The only real difference between an expert and an amateur, in anything, is that experts know that in order to succeed they must never give up.

A presentation on the seven habits of highly effective people.

"THE EXPANDING WORKWEEK AND THE INEVITABLE BOTTLENECK

Americans now work approximately eight weeks longer2 per year than in 1969—in the space of a single generation—for roughly the same income after adjusting for inflation. The new standard workweek is 70 hours3 and the growth rate is increasing.

The second part of Bobby Chiu's video where he discusses limitations and expanding your mind to achieve success. Break limitations by thinking that they really don't exist.

Mind maps are used as a way of coming up with creative ideas and concepts. By writing down a specific key idea and focusing on it, you can come up with creative and innovative ways to plan activities and projects. Mind maps are effectively used to gather knowledge in such a way as will help you to better understand and remember new information.

Good PC Software tools to help with your productivity.

Email:
Outlook
Gmail
Eudora

FTP:
FileZilla

Video:
Camtasia
Sony Vegas Pro
Adobe Premiere

Security:
ZoneAlarm
Roboform
Moosoft's The Cleaner
TrojanHunter
Max Registry Cleaner

Image Creation/Editing:
PhotoShop
Painter
Illustrator
ArtRage

Office Software:
Open Office
Microsoft Office

We all procrastinate — let’s admit it. And if you’re like me, you’re always trying to find ways to stop the procrastinating. Here’s the trick that works best for me:

5 tips to boost your productivity using Windows XP.

Taskbar Shuffle
freewebs.com/nerdcave/taskbarshuffle.htm

Tabbed Windows Explorer [QT Tab Bar]
http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/

Texter
lifehacker.com/software/texter/lifehacker-code-texter-windows

http://marcgrabanski.com/

In today’s busy society it is very common to feel overwhelmed and disorganized. One good way to keep yourself from feeling completely overwhelmed is to declutter your life. You can begin with your home or office. Getting yourself and the space around you organized will lead to more productivity and much less stress while you deal with your daily tasks.

Productivity helps you to be … well productive. We all need to be more productive in both our personal live and our professional lives. This is particularly true if your profession revolves around creativity or anything artistic. For example, if you are a writer, then you are among those who have artistic and creative professions. Using productivity methods and tips is highly important, as artistic types tend to wander from the subject and lose time that could be used for working.

Successfulness and happiness go hand in hand with regards to achieving your full potential. Once you have determined what will make you happy and have worked to achieve that, then success is a given and vice-versa. Keeping this in mind, it is important to point out that if you set unrealistic goals for yourself you are simply prolonging your unhappiness. The key in realizing your full potential is to be completely honest in your assessment of your potential.

A wireless headset is one piece of technology that can make your life very easy. You can continue to type or collect information during a phone call and you do not have the aggravation of trying to balance the phone between your shoulder and your ear while filing or doing other things that you need to get done. Our favorite use for a headset is in speech recognition. Setup a voice recognition program like Dragon Naturally Speaking or the built in speech recognition in Windows Vista and you can use a headset to dictate your thoughts straight to text.

If you are working on achieving your full potential then you should already have a list of all the things that you can do - your skills, qualifications and hobbies. Now that you have your list finished it is time to put it to work.

Available from CafePress: 12 Drawings That Will Change Your Life, a 12 month executive wall calendar by Ralph Perrine.

In the 12 Drawings calendar, Ralph Perrine shares 12 drawings that he has used in over 16 years in business and technology, as well as in his own personal contemplation and planning of his life.

Quick intro: This is one in a series of Top Productivity Hacks - little tips and tricks that are designed to make you more productive. At the end of the series I’ll post them all together in an overview.

Productivity Hack #1: Do something you’re passionate about.