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Posted by Ben Lumley on Jan 28, 2010 in Geek, Goals, Overcoming Challenges, Productivity, Success, Thinking Differently, Young People | 7 comments

chance of snow Creative Commons License photo credit: evelynishere I'm please to announce that you can now subscribe to the 6Aliens.com newsletter. When you sign up you'll receiving my new fortnightly newsletter which will contain an article not featured on the 6Aliens.com site itself, something exclusive just for you. It might be a follow up to post on the site that gives you a bit more information, some tricks and tips to help with your day or even some new way of thinking. All you have to do is sign up using the form on the top of the sidebar to the right and I'll do the rest. Enjoy

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3 Unusual Ways to Hack Someone’s Productivity

Posted by Ben Lumley on Dec 9, 2009 in Creating Change, Peak Performance, Success | 5 comments

Hard work can hurt Creative Commons License photo credit: normalityrelief Sometimes we rely on people to complete a task in order for us to do our job properly. Whether you work for a large multinational corporation or alone at home working for yourself you will have to, at some point, delegate some task or project out to someone else. But you worry. You worry that they won't do a good enough job and that you'll have to go back and get them to redo things or at worst completely redo the whole task or project yourself. Nightmare! When you're depending on someone else to come through for you on something really important there can be nothing more stressful. Visions flood through your head of your very important task languishing on the edge of a desk somewhere while the person who should be completing it is talking to their friend about what shoes they've brought for the party on Saturday night or finishing off yet another game of Minesweeper. If only they could be as productive as you, then you could relax and get a decent night's sleep. Well, there are some things you can do to hack someone else's productivity so that your work is completed on time and to a high standard.

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