Good morning and welcome to the 5 a.m. Miracle, episode number 615, the 10 best productivity

tools for your desk, office or home office. I am Jeff Sanders, and you have reached the

podcast that is dedicated to dominating your day before breakfast. I am a keynote speaker and corporate trainer,

and to learn more about those options,

head over to jeffsanders.com slash speaking.

Now, in episode this week,

I'll share 10 of my favorite productivity tools

to enhance your working environments.

Let's dig right in.

Thank you. your working environments. Let's dig right in. So years ago, I worked at a career college here in Nashville, Tennessee. I was the school's

registrar, which is a very fancy way of saying I dealt

with all the paperwork, all the admin tasks, all the back-end details that really allowed the

school to function on a variety of levels. Now, this job was the job for me in my mid-20s,

and by that I mean, this is where I discovered my love

of productivity. I was in a position to shift from one role to another. And when this role popped

up for me to take over all this admin detail, I thought, you know what this sounds like me?

This sounds like the kind of job that I could

excel at, even though I had never really worked in a job that required that level of organization

and productivity, it just seemed to fit me on paper. And so I applied. I got the job and immediately

found myself in this position of needing to gain a lot of skills.

Like, how am I going to get all this work done?

There was a lot to do, a full 40 hours a week and then some.

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