How do you measure your productivity?

By Rebecca Leigh | March 2, 2009

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In the traditional cube job, time is money; bum in seat equals cash in bank. If you’re not inspired by your job this can lead to some pretty chronic time wasting habits (feed reader anyone?).

When you’re self employed and your income is tied directly to your effort (whether it’s cranking through billable work or cracking new product markets), productivity takes on new meaning.

If you measure productivity by time committed, a nifty time tracking application like Toggl is great.
If you measure productivity by progress towards your goals, these elegant trackers for freelancers and small business might be for you.

2 Comments so far

1. by Kurt L on March 2, 2009 at 10:07 am

   Scrolling through David’s site, I came across an effective Goal breakdown remedy.

   http://davidseah.com/blog/creating-new-years-resolutions-with-the-concrete-goals-tracker/

   Looks effective for breaking down your goals into tasks that can be managed using the templates.

2. by Rebecca Leigh on March 2, 2009 at 10:54 am

   Thanks Kurt!

   I think David offers a lot of great tools - there are quite a few different paper based trackers and planners for working with your stuff at different levels. I have a tendency to be forever ’systems fiddling’ so I try to keep things as simple as possible. Paper based templates are good for this - and I love one with an elegant design

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