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The Ultimate Guide to Productivity - MomGadget Style

by Gayla on April 27th, 2007

Creator Ben Yoskovitz shares simple rules of this meme/group writing project. This meme gives us all a chance to share our own tip(s) that help us stay focused throughout our own workday so that we may inspire or enlighten others to become more productive and successful in their own workday.

To be honest, I couldn’t have been tagged on a better day. This meme forces me to gather my thoughts and regain my own footage after having been knocked off kilter a bit. Thanks to both Wendy Piersall and Ponn Sabra I have officially been double tagged. So I’ll personally give them credit for bringing me back to my reality :)

My Personal Top Productivity Tip Is:

Excel Spreadsheets!

Simple huh?

Sometimes I feel like the spreadsheet Queen. I love, Love, LOVE spreadsheets! The only thing that would be better then the existing spreadsheets would be if they came in Post It style and if they were dipped in chocolate!

The spreadsheets I have developed and use most are:

Weekly Blog Schedule - As I progress through the day/week, I check off the blogs I as I complete them. As I near the weekend, I can easily see where my priorities need to be directed to balance all my blogs out.

Several weeks back, I displayed an example of my own form and I’ve made a blank form available (pdf file) for printing by those who would like to implement this tool in their own day-to-day blogging.

Digging deeper into my files, I have spreadsheets for:

Tracking affiliates and income monthly and yearly (wonderful for tax time) each year has their own tab tucked neatly at the bottom of my Excel. It’s a wonderful tool for doing year to year comparison too.

Tracking expenses throughout the year (also wonderful at tax time)

Keeping an alphabetized list of Affiliates AND my affiliate text link code for quick access if I find a need to place it in a post at some point.

For this meme, I’m curious to know the productivity tips of:

Aaron at Today is That Day - I’ve really got to know what keeps that guy so on track!

Char at Essential Keystrokes - This woman just keeps amazing me at how she keeps up with her kiddos and being so active in their lives, being a wife and being such an amazing professional through blogging and consulting. I HAVE to know what helps her to be so darned productive.

Dawud Miracle of Healthy Design (untagged) - I’ve spoken to this man live and I swear he sounds like he could be the poster boy for Starbucks, Red Bull and Rockstar (the drink). He’s so full of energy and without tell tale signs of ADHD, like ma’self - I’d really like to know how he stays on track yet maintains such a high level of energy. — After clicking through to his blog, I realized he’d already been tagged. BUT for the sake of this meme and so YOU can know his secret too, I’m leaving his name here. In an untagged version :)

Now I would like to tag a few newcomers to Gack Ink - The Bring Your Own Blog Network - Some are new, some are just spreading their wings and some are more vintage, like me. I LOVE that word Vintage! It sounds so much better then Old, Mature, Geriatric…

Ok, back on track here…

In wrapping up, I’m going to tag the following:

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