Category: Effectivity

7 lessons from highly successful people – PART I

People with wealth who have succeeded due to their own persistence have one thing in common…   People with wealth who have succeeded due to their own persistence have one thing in common: They know that their success didn’t depend so much on the off chance or luck. It depended mainly on principles they grew up...

16 inspirational quotes that will boost your productivity

    We’ve done the hard yards and dug up 16 inspiring quotes about productivity for you, so that you can motivate yourself and concentrate on what really matters: Getting more done while still having a life. If you would find this article useful, please hit the recommend button below so that others can benefit...

5 things modern online-marketer can learn from old-school salesman

  Have you ever met a salesperson raised on old-school sales manners? That kind of a shop person selling suits in three-generation family store on the busiest shopping street in the city. Feet together, hands behind the back, collar high and starched, looking ready to serve. With a demeanor of an English gentleman and charisma of Fred...

Get rid of constraints that decrease your personal productivity

  A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. This is one of those common sense phrases and overused cliches. For others, however, it can mean a million dollar business or a life attitude which helps the person to see connections that others can’t. The second type of such a person was definitely Eliyahu...

Kaizen as a way of work: small improvements, reducing time wastage

  People living in western cultures believe, that if you set big goals, you must try hard to achieve them. Unlike eastern cultures, they have a belief that trying hard means doing drastic changes by taking big quantitative leaps. Japanese attitude represented by Kaizen philosophy resembles more still water or calm wind. At a first...

Zen in The Art of Productivity

  „Zen aims to simplify the mind. To exclude any concepts. Beginner’s mind has too many options. Master’s mind just knows.“ In Japan, archery is not only a sport where hitting the targets is the main purpose. Archery is also meant to train the mind. If one really wants to master the art of archery,...

Quattro Stagioni – four pieces for colorful life

  Every one of us has the same 24 hours in a day for all their activities.  How you structure your day, the things you do and what you consider important all lead to life you live, whichever way it is. There is a 4 cycle principle that says that in order to live a...

Pomodoro technique – spicy italian recipe for creative freshness and full focus

  Clevork productivity cookbook is here with yet another recipe for your tasty day at work. This time with Pomodoro – famous Italian time management method. Portion: For one person. Category: Easy recipe. Preparation time: 15 min. Cooking time: 25 min periods followed by 5 min breaks Ingredients: Preparation – optional: 1 pencil and paper or an app for to-do lists Cooking: 1 kitchen timer...

Clevork productivity cookbook

  Clevork productivity cookbook is here to teach you the most common time management techniques. We’ve decided to go through the most famous methods and life hacks, simplify them to the greatest extent possible and give them to real people of our modern age (people too busy and tired of rubbish) for testing themselves. Each...

Creative vs. Productive: What’s the ideal work space for both? (Infographics)

  According to several researches different work space can help you to be either productive or creative (but not really both at same time). Creative tasks like writing or design require different types of thinking than solving problems or doing repetitive tasks and one mindset often blocks the second one. Our info-graphics shows how the...