How to increase productivity through creating more distractions

Have you heard that it’s important to reduce your distractions to increase your concentration and productivity? Every day, the Internet is bursting with productivity hacks on reducing your distractions, like writing to-do lists, exercising before work, taking up yoga, etc. etc.

While these strategies may work for some people, there are just as many who get tangled up in fluoro post-it notes, and go cross-eyed writing to-do lists that are ultimately a complete waste of energy and can lead to reduced performance, adrenal fatigue and burnout.

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3 Steps to hiring ‘high performance’ people

If every member of your staff were able to contribute an extra hour of effective productivity every day, imagine what that would do to your bottom line. The good news is that it’s absolutely possible.

If every member of your staff were able to contribute an extra hour of effective productivity every day, imagine what that would do to your bottom line. The good news is that it’s absolutely possible.

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Living fast and slow: find your natural pace for peak performance

Do you live fast or slow? We can think fast and slow, using our automatic, subconscious or by making more reasoned choices. Some people are born multi-taskers, but that approach doesn’t work for everyone.

We can also exercise fast or slow depending on our muscle twitch fibres.

Olympic sprinters have been shown to possess about 80 per cent fast twitch fibres, while marathon runners tend to have 80 per cent slow twitch fibres, for example.

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How to do a digital detox at home

Australians are more digitally connected then ever, with the average person spending the equivalent of almost an entire day online every week. So is it time to do a digital detox?

“We live in a notification culture, where we have attention deficiencies and are addicted to the little red notification circles on our media,” says performance coach Vanessa Bennett.

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Plan your life like an athlete in 5 easy steps

At Inside 80, we talk about Energy Credits as if you wake up with 100 every day, (assuming you got a good sleep and are in good health) and you spend those credits in each activity you do throughout the day. Athletes are amazing at managing their energy to ensure that it is allocated to increasing their performance at the right time, and no credits are ever wasted. Athletes are also amazing at perfecting their technique so that they spend their energy credits in the most efficient way possible.

So let’s take some simple tips to build our lifestyles like a professional athlete…

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