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Being productive isn’t necessarily about doing more work in the day. If you’re not doing the hard work that success demands, you’re fooling yourself if you think you’re ever going to be successful. You’ve got to do the hard things if you want to enjoy the great things. It’s as simple as that. If you’re not working hard, you’re not working smart. But what if you’re already working as hard as you think you can? How do you do more if there isn’t any more time to work? Being exceptionally productive has a lot to do with your priorities. In fact, that’s the secret to getting more done each day. Managing your priorities. First, you have to know what those priorities are. You have to know what matters the most to you. Where you want to be in the long term and what you’re doing right now to get there. Once you know that, you have to work hard to maintain that focus. It’s called momentum. That’s the secret to pro...

It’s natural to believe that you need some grand gesture in order to turn your life around. That you need to throw everything away and start fresh. Lots of hard work. Massive amounts of unbelievably focused energy. If you’re only thinking big and quick, you’re probably overlooking small and guaranteed options for long-term success. You’re so busy hoping to find that one thing that will catapult you towards where you want to be that you’re ignoring the smaller stepping stones that lead you there almost automatically. Take, for example, time. There never seems to be enough time to get to everything that you want to do. You want more of it — but know that’s just not possible. No amount of scientific breakthrough will allow you to double or triple the amount of hours in the day. But what if you got out of bed 1 hour earlier each day? It doesn’t seem like much. In fact, when you’re groggy and sleepy it hardly seems like it’s ev...

Microsoft researchers help a race pilot go faster, Surface Pro 4 gets down to business and Windows 10 devices get a world-wide celebration Posted October 23, 2015 By Vanessa Ho on Microsoft Blogs From up in the air to eastern Africa, lots of cool Microsoft news happened this week. Dig in! Microsoft researchers were busy in Las Vegas helping Red Bull Air Race pilot Kirby Chambliss fly the fastest, most efficient way possible. Chambliss already races at a speed of more than 200 miles per hour, sometimes while upside down. But with control theory, robotics, machine learning and path planning, researchers are working to shave his time by a tenth to a hundredth of a second. “You get two-tenths of a second here and two-tenths of a second there, and now you’re winning,” Chambliss said. In awesome device news, the Surface Pro 4 has been adopted by businesses faster than any previous Surface. Since the newest Surface devices were unveiled two weeks ago, there has been ...