Mike Vardy

Coming Christmas Day: The Front Nine

December 25th is a pretty special day for a lot of people, and this year it is going to be all the more special for yours truly. That’s because 12/25/12 is the official release date for The Front Nine: How to Start the Year You Want Anytime You Want, my first e-book published by Diversion Books. […]

How to Use 30/30 Like The Emergent Task Planner

I’m a big fan of David Seah’s Emergent Task Planner. When I was purely a “paper-based productivityist”, I used it regularly. In fact, I still break it out from time to time when I really want to escape from my digital devices and better connect with what I have to do – or better yet

Mind Your Time

The more mindful you are about your stuff, the less your mind will be full of stuff. And chances are that stuff filling your mind is mostly other people’s stuff. The best way you can mind your time is to get time off of your mind. Focus on the things you do, not how long

Totally Covered

Monday was a crazy day. I took part in the upcoming Golden Headphones Awards episode of CMD+SPACE. I did some writing — but not for today. I wrote for tomorrow and the next day because today I received the final version of this… Yep, it’s the cover of The Front Nine. The writing is done.

All the Focus on OmniFocus

The past couple of weeks has seen a slew of posts related to the ever-popular task management application, OmniFocus. Here’s a roundup of what went down… Enter Mail Drop Currently in beta, Mail Drop gives OmniFocus users a unique email address that they can use to send items to their OmniFocus inbox for processing later.

Building a Thing to Build a Bigger Thing

After a very busy week, Craig Jarrow and I had a couple of discussions. One of them took place Friday night, where we talked about the week gone by and even more about the weeks ahead. The funny thing about this talk was that it felt freeing — perhaps even more freeing than our most

The Why

I’ve written my share of “how to” posts here, and I really enjoy sharing how I do certain things to keep me as productive as possible. Whether that’s through the use of an app or technology or through the use of mindful practices, I’m really into exploring how to make my workflow better. Longtime readers

Connect Better with Cloze

A few weeks ago, Jascha over at Mindjet suggested I give a web app a try that i hadn’t heard of before based on what I’d written about SaneBox over at Lifehack months ago. The app is called Cloze, and unlike SaneBox it is more permissive than dismissive. Cloze wants to help you build and

Respect Your Time

My friend Steve Dotto talks about respecting time as one of the earmarks in his latest endeavour, ProTECHtivity. He suggests different pieces of tech (apps, devices, etc.) that will support you with that. Ultimately by using technology as an aid, you can find ways to better respect your time. And that’s one benefit technology offers.