Happy New Year! Today’s piece is designed to fit into the relaxed new year mood while helping our esteemed readers reflect on the previous year.
As you may already know, technology is an enabler and it is your responsibility to make it work for you. When I talk about technology, I do not mean some complex stuff left only to geeks who are very good at programming and it does not mean using social media to fight or argue a case alone. It is certainly more than that.
My desire is for more Nigerians to regard technology as a tool to create a future they really long for. As an example, I have gone from a blogger to being a highly sought-after personality in the industry because, long ago, I made a commitment that I would use technology to transform my life in ways that my peers or those around me would not believe were possible.
What’s my point? Make technology work for you in 2017. Dig deeper; carry out more researches. Make Google your partner and take the first step.
That said, may I encourage you to take some moment to review how the use of tech tools every day must have helped you achieve more in 2016. The following are basically my thoughts on how some select tools have been of great help:
- How did you manage your daily tasks in 2016?
Quite a number of people are not where they should be in life; this is because they are not good time managers. Yes, they are always busy, but busy doing what? Working with to-do-lists can actually make a lot of difference and tools like Evernote, Wunderlist or Any.do will help you better manage your time. These are useful tools that can actually help you to achieve all or some of the things you set out to do.
- Where did you spend the most time online?
This also leads to the next point. What if I ask you this question and demand that you respond immediately? Where did you spend most of your time online in 2016? Will you be exact? Maybe yes, or maybe no, but if you had installed a tool like “Rescuetime”, it would show you exactly where you spent the most time and most importantly, it would tell you if you spent your time productively or not.
- How well did you do with appointments?
Still on another aspect of life that is largely influenced by how we manage our time; were you able to meet all your appointments in 2016?
Research has proved that the majority of people set up and manage appointments with their brains alone. There is actually nothing wrong with that, but there is a — Finish Reading on the Punch Website
