Welcome to the September 2007 edition of ”A Carnival Of Productivity Tips”. I was astounded with the volume and quality of articles this month - we received no less than 70 submissions, each one I have reviewed.

The purpose of this carnival is to provide readers with high quality articles providing practical tips to get more done in less time and with less stress. So if articles did not fit those criteria I have excluded them.

I recommend that you first read Sagar Satapathy who presents Top 100 Foods to Improve Your Productivity posted at Bootstrapper, then choose your productivity foods and sit down for the next hour to browse through these articles.

And can I suggest  that you then read Luciano Passuello’s article which presents How to Recall an Entire Book in 5 Minutes or Less posted at Litemind, outlining how to make sure that you don’t forget what you have just read.

Financial Productivity TipsMillionaire Mommy Next Door presents Where Does Your Money Go? Tips and Tricks for Tracking the Flow posted at Millionaire Mommy Next Door, showing us how to be more efficient with our finances. 

Marketing Productivity Tips

Randy Nichols presents Advertising Jingles and Commercials - Radio & TV posted at Matt’s Creative Advertising Blog, provides tips to help you be more productive with your media plan.

Chris Tackett presents How to Write a Headline and Grab Your Prospect by the Eyeballs! posted at Direct Marketing News, providing tips for writing headlines for your markeiting copy.

Eric Hudin presents You Can Make More Working Less posted at Everyday Marketing Ideas, and shows us how to become more efficient and effective.

Personal Productivity Tips

Matt presents Build your right-brain playground posted at EverydayChange.com, saying, showing us how to enhance productivity by employing more right-brain-based thinking.

Jaxelamse presents Brain Flicks: The Secrets of Sleep posted at Brain Flicks, saying, revealing the science behind sleep.

Chris Russell presents Enhancing Human Performance posted at Productivity Planner,  covering how to understand people’s needs in order to increase motivation.

TheRoadtoCEO presents A Motivation Secret of Top Performing Managers posted at Get More Done with Activity Logs, outlining a motivation strategy that you can use to encourage voluntary contribution from everyone around you.

Charles H. Green presents Deer in the Headlights Decison-Making posted at Trust Matters, outlining how meetings may bog down and guard the status quo. 

Tupelo Kenyon presents Don’t Take it Personally posted at Tupelo Kenyon, explaining that when people criticise it’s not always about you.

Lorraine Cohen presents Are You Creating a Success-Setting Environment? posted at Powerfull Living, asking is your physical environment work for or against you?

Ralph Jean-Paul presents Be A Presence In Any Room posted at Potential 2 Success, sharing with us how we can walk into any room or in front of any audience and project confidence by becoming a presence.

Ralph Jean-Paul presents Turn Potential Into Success posted at Potential 2 Success, saying, “Turn your skills, goals, and potential into success”

Living Better presents Help for the Disorganized posted at PlainAdvice, saying, “Getting back to the basics is often the best way to increase your productivity!”

Phil B. presents 13 Steps to be Productive « Phil for Humanity posted at Phil for Humanity.

SpiKe presents The Productivity Formula posted at Organize IT.

Will Mitchell presents Lucid Dream Experiment - WILD Method posted at Sparkedblog.

Shane Magee presents An exercise to boost your concentration span posted at Sri Chinmoy Inspiration Blog.

Luke Houghton presents 5 golden rules of making a presentation posted at Luke Houghton.

Louise Manning presents Does the work environment you provide affect employee performance? posted at The Human Imprint.

David B. Bohl presents Productivity, Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Balance - Knowing When Enough is Enough : Slow Down Fast Today! posted at Slow Down Fast Today!.

Arin Vahanian presents A Quick Primer on How to Eliminate Fears and Bad Feelings posted at Super State.

Jon presents Unscramble Your Brain & Get More Done posted at Art Of Money.

Moneywalks presents Ways to Avoid Procrastination posted at moneywalks.

Bill Urell presents 10 Easy Tips for Setting Positive Life Goals posted at Addiction Recovery Basics.

Christine Kane presents What?s Easy. What?s Not. posted at Christine Kane’s Blog.

Ellesse presents Want To be More Productive? Play More posted at Goal Setting College.

Christine Scivicque presents 5 Tips for Better Phone Communication posted at The Executive Assistant’s Tool Box.

Alvaro Fernandez presents The Ten Habits of Highly Effective Brains posted at SharpBrains: Your Window into the Brain Fitness Revolution.

Do let me know if you adopt any of the ideas from this months articles.

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You might recall that I said that to support you in getting more done in less time and with less stress that  was going to be looking for people to submit their very best articles to our new blog carnival: “A Carnival of Productivity Tips”.

Well we were innundated with suggestions and I’ve selected just a third of the articles submitted for you to review.

I am sure you will get some great tips. Thank you to all those who submitted articles for consideration. I am afraid some articles could not be included as they did not meet the criteria we outlined. 

K T Cat presents Shoving Line Management Onto An Ice Flow posted at The Scratching Post 

Dave Cheong presents Embrace change, your life depends on it posted at Dave Cheong | Engineer to Entrepreneur.

Steve Fisher presents The Most Unproductive Question You Can Ask posted at Instigator Blog

FitBuff presents 5 Simple and Effective Steps to Relax Your Body and Calm Your Nerves posted at FitBuff.com’s Total Mind and Body Fitness Blog

Nigel Griffiths presents Is procrastination holding you back? posted at The Enfys Acumen Blog.

Getting Things Done presents 5 Tips to Create More Time and 10 Simple Tips to Start Getting Things Done posted at Getting Things Done - My experiences with using GTD 

Bhupendra Khanal presents Top 10 Mantra for Professional Success posted at Analytics Bhupe

Michael Krotchie presents Visualizing your way to success! posted at Tucson Real Estate News Straight From the Old Pueblo

Becky McCray presents How to use a checklist to focus your entrepreneurial efforts posted at Small Biz Survival

Meredith Mathews presents Top 10 Tips for a Productive Meeting. « Lemonade Stand posted at Lemonade Stand 

Andrew Michaels presents The Centrality Of The Mind posted at Lifecrafting, article discusses how your mind effects all areas of your life.  

Daniel Scocco presents Note Taking Tip posted at Daily Writing Tips

Sri presents How to Find More Time in the Day. posted at Sri Chinmoy Inspiration 

Stephanie West Allen presents Having trouble reaching your goals?  posted at idealawg.

Sunny presents Success is in Balance posted at Dandelions and Daydreams

And for those of you who would like some technology tips, here are three productivity tips you might find helpful:

Debra Moorhead presents The Power of Leverage posted at Debra Moorhead.com.

Barbra Sundquist presents How to Make a Screenshot posted at HomeBusinessWiz.

Penina Finger presents Use del.icio.us to organize projects posted at Penina Finger.

Skits2 presents Wordpress Keyboard Shortcuts posted at Savvy Affiliate

If you have an article that you would like to submit for consideration for the next edition of “A Carnival Of Productivity Tips” you can do so at our carnival submission form.

Do let me know if you adopt any of the ideas from this months articles.

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How to get more done in less time with less stress

I was speaking with Anna yesterday when we recorded our next edition for The Podcast Sisters which was all about how to increase more traffic to your blog.

One of the subjects we talked about was the power of blog carnivals - in fact it was through blog carnivals that I met Anna.

I have personally enjoyed great benefit from participating in blog carnivals.

As today is my birthday, I thought it would be rather nice to give other bloggers a gift.

So as a way of giving back to the blogosphere, I decided to host some blog carnivals.

This first I am announcing is “A Carnival of productivity tips”.

The purpose of this carnival is to provide readers with high quality articles providing practical tips to get more done in less time and with less stress.

In todays ever faster moving business world, do you have great ideas and strategies that can guide us through the clutter of what is important but not urgent?

If you have great articles, you can post them to our carnival submission site by the 25th of each month.

The collection of articles will appear here at Biz Growth News on the 1st of the month starting 1 July 2007.

Please note that articles that overly promote the authors services or products or are selling affiliate products will not be accepted.

I look forward to reading all your great articles. Remember to get posting.

If you are not sure what a blog carnival is here is a brief definition:

A blog carnival is a collection of articles from different authors on a specific topic.Each edition of the blog carnival is a specific blog article that consists of links to all the contributions that have been submitted.

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