Most serious PC users, especially those whose use at work determines in part their professional performance, have an understanding of the importance of being productive in their PC use. While everyone agrees with this concept, many people interviewed acknowledge that they are and have never really been in the category of PC user characterized as “Highly Productive”. There are many reasons that this is a true state of affairs for many if not most PC users. However, we will be dealing with the most prevailing reason – they never really made it a focus to become a PC Flier. PC users with a high degree of productivity can literally fly through an application – hence the term – producing exceptional results in minutes that take even qualified users hours. How is that possible and can you learn to fly? The unqualified answer is YES!
Learning to fly means unlearning certain wasteful functions, concentrating instead on the kinds of things – and especially the applications – that can make a huge impact on how much work you can get done in a day, how good its content is, and how innovative your intimacy with the related applications allows you to be. Being able to accomplish things that others cannot or doing standard things with newer and more productive use of technology is what advancement in any job or profession is all about.
Here is your first lesson in learning to fly. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of things to do – rather it is an example of the kinds of things you should consider when you make your Learning-to-Fly Plan.
Review all the applications that you use heavily on a daily basis. Make sure that the current version of them is on your system. Review in detail these applications and how you use them, performing a real and complete productivity analysis. This involves primarily a review of the application to really determine what facilities and capabilities of the application that could contribute to your productivity are not now used by you. An example here will be of benefit. There are many auto-function capabilities in newer versions of Word that Microsoft acknowledges limited usage of by most users. I used to be a strong believer in not using any of the auto-functions, opting instead to things myself. Now, after reviewing Word 2007, I opted to employ every single function that it performs automatically and pay the price to learn and use it accordingly. This was a huge investment in time. However, since I am an extremely heavy user of Word, it became obvious that this was time very well spent. I have become extremely productive using Word and my productivity overall has soared. I can do things in Word now and it only takes half the time of my previous, picky and hand-held use. An increase in productivity of this sort – in the range of 100% is exactly what PC Productivity Flying produces.
Increased productivity also means not being slowed down by either hardware or software performance-limiting maintenance that was not done – like maintaining your system registry. Commercially available registry software will allow you to perform the necessary registry fix operations and you can achieve the necessary Registry Repair.
