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At a point when businesses are so technology-driven, manual timesheet methods sound like a thing of the past. It brings to mind your first job at a grocery store 20 years ago when you had to punch in and out on one of these bad boys. But believe it or not, 38% of U.S. employees […]
Hidden costs of manual timesheet methods: A closer look at productivity drain Read More »
Let’s be honest—at RescueTime, we can’t say enough good things about time tracking. That’s not because we just think it’s a great habit, but because we’ve seen its benefits play out for more than 2 million users. At this point, you know that time tracking comes with a variety of advantages, but maybe you’ve hit
Navigating time tracking challenges: Empowering yourself for success Read More »
Those of you reading this blog, those interested in the pursuit of productivity and work-life balance, and all those nice things, probably have a lot of dreams. It’s something that binds us. We want to be better in more than one area of our lives. There’s our health, our social lives, our personal work—and the
Mastering prioritization could change your life Read More »
Why is motivation something that’s never completely dealt with? Why are issues with motivation always…there? They’re seemingly an unrelenting part of the human experience. They’re also seemingly a universal experience for anyone trying to accomplish anything in their life. There’s some comfort in that, to be sure, but it’s also confounding. Has no one cracked
Our universal struggle with motivation Read More »
We spend a lot of time here at RescueTime talking about how to make ourselves more productive. How to make ourselves, in a sense, more powerful in our work and the way we go about it. And there are myriad powerful forces and strategies out there we can harness to aid us in this journey. Of
The scary power of fatigue Read More »
We’re all guilty of it. We’re in one of those moments when we get all inspired (often at 2am on a Sunday) and make proclamations, make plans to change our lives. “This time I’m gonna do it all. Health and productivity and social life and everything else.” So we set about biting off more than
Going back to basics to get more done Read More »
Happy New Year, friends! It’s a pretty tired routine at this point. A new article on a productivity blog, published on January 1st, 2nd, or 3rd—you could easily guess what it might be about: the fabled New Year’s Resolution. Either it’s an unironic and wholesome piece of inspirational writing about the power of belief and
Making your New Year’s resolutions stick, one last time Read More »
The end of the year can be a tough time for us productivity warriors. In a perfect world, we’d be looking back at a year of achievements and progress and, you know, being proud of ourselves. But for many of us, we spend this time worrying about how we could have been better—more organized, more
The schedule is the secret Read More »
It’s a feeling you might be familiar with: being “booked tight.” It’s a weirdly complicated thing to experience. Because, yes, if you’re looking enough to truly enjoy what you’re doing, it can be a deeply fulfilling experience. Like you’re doing exactly what you should be doing with your time—using all of it to its fullest
There’s more time than you think Read More »
A few weeks ago was the halfway point of the year. Fifty percent of the year gone, and 50 percent left to go. A nice moment to pause and reflect, as we often like to do, about how well we’ve been doing on our individual journeys. The funny thing is, I didn’t even realize it
Who cares about arbitrary milestones? Read More »
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