If you find yourself getting bored in office meetings or that you spend maybe less than 5 minutes in the entire hour contributing anything useful to the entire discussion, you probably don’t need to be there.
The problem is that most people expect you to be there anyway, simply because that is what you are suppose [...]

Why you need to do this
If you don’t stop people from dumping their work on you, you will never be able to be in full control of your work schedule. If you aren’t in control of your work schedule, you will not be able to streamline your work and enjoy free time once you are [...]

“The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.”
~W. Edwards Deming (American Consultant, Stastistician and Educator)
Why You Should Do This
Picking up the phone to talk to someone not only distracts you from your work, it also wastes your time. This is bad, especially when you are [...]