What Are Your Secrets for Personal Productivity?

Ben Yoskovitz over at The Instigator Blog recently started a group writing meme on the subject of personal productivity. He tagged people to write about what most helps them to be optimally productive, and those people tagged a few people, and so on. The hope is that at the end of it all, he will gather up everyone's personal productivity tips and produce an Ultimate Guide to Productivity. Here are some of the valuable tidbits that have been produced so far:

MomGadget's Gayla McCord uses Excel spreadsheets to do everything from organizing a blogging schedule, to keeping track of affiliates and income, to tracking expenses.

Monk at Work's Adam Cayce points to clarity as his number one productivity tip. Find what you love, focus on that, and you will naturally be more productive. You'll intuitively know where to put your energies.

Wendy Piersall at eMoms at Home says her most valuable tip, when it comes to being more productive, is leverage. This is basically a punishment/reward system, with the point being to get the work done, lest ye be punished. She mentions having to grow a moustache. But I don't think you have to take it that far.

Newbie blogger that I am, I'm not sure I'm all that productive yet. In fact, I often feel hopelessly disorganized. So I look forward to seeing this Ultimate Guide to Productivity. But if I'm forced to come up with something that helps me to be productive, I'd say that the thing I've found most useful in blogging and my day job is Google Calendar. It's easy to navigate. It has drag and drop functionality. And thanks to color coding, you can have numerous calendars in one. Best of all, it's free! And you know how I feel about free stuff, tools included.

So that's it. That's all I've got. And without further ado, I will further this little cyber-exercise and tag the following bloggers to give us their best productivity tip:

Angela's Right to Free Speech
MyWAHMLife
A Writer's Edge
PRACTiCAL CHiCK
Ang4Him

Tag! You're it!