Monday is productivity/career day on invisibleblog.com.

by Jason Proe

Have you ever had one of those days at work where lunch time arrives and you have nothing productive to show for it? Mike Gunderloy Web Worker Daily shares with us five tips for getting your day on track:

4. Bribe yourself. Faced with ten tasks and not wanting to do any of them? Try making a deal with yourself: a game of Bejeweled for each completed task, or a few M&Ms, or time catching up on your RSS feeds. The trick is to take what you’d rather be doing and make it contingent on finishing what you should be doing.

I have found that the best way to avoid wasting a day is to get off to a good start. The first thing I try and do in the morning is to accomplish a discrete task before I check voice mail, email or chat with people about their weekends. If you have tips for salvaging your work day let us hear about them in the comments.

Source(s):[Web Worker Daily]