Use Google to manage the news, get focused and boost productivity 27 Nov

One of the most popular ways to switch-off and distract ourselves from the stresses of life and work, is to gorge

on news from the television and newspapers.! Spending time watching or reading about random stuff that we have

absolutely no control over whatsoever, is not only be a phenomenal waste of time, but also an absolute killer of

productivity.! It"s all very well being up-to-date with world affairs but will we really remember these #breaking

stories" the next day, week or month?

Far better to get quality over quantity when it comes to news.! Technology like RSS feeds for example, when used carefully, enables

access to the stuff we want, when we want it.! Try it for a month and experience a huge boost in productivity:

Cut out newspapers and television news for one month and set up the following: Goggle News Reader

Google has about 80% of the search engine market and is the undisputed king when it comes to search (despite a valiant effort recently by Microsoft with Bing).!

Their "Reader# service allows us to subscribe to different news feeds, share them with colleagues and even analyse time spent on them (so if we#re not reading

them, bin them). It#s really important to schedule specific slots in the diary to read them (otherwise, we risk spending all morning on them). !It depends on how much

"news# we really need, but a good target to go for is Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for one hour first thing in the morning (8AM to 9AM). !We can either do this

at our computers / laptops, or if being super efficient, on our smart phone (Blackberry , iPhone, Nokia etc.) during non-selling time i.e. when on the train.

An important thing to remember, which avoids a feeling of overwhelm, is to delete all articles every Friday – EVEN IF IT SEEMS REALLY INTERESTING – delete

it! !Something else just as interesting will come along the following week. Here#s a couple of great ones to get started:

Business Week -!http://www.businessweek.com/rss/bwdaily.rss

CNN -!http://rss.cnn.com/rss/money_topstories.rss

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