Mike Vardy

When to Hold On and When to Let Go

Gary Miller Jr. of A Better Guy (and the accompanying podcast, The Better Guy Show) dropped me a line a while back asking me the following: “What criteria do you use to figure out if a project should go away or stay?” Since I returned from my travels I’ve been giving that email quite a […]

The Books I’ve Been Reading – August 2013

Even though I’ve been keeping myself busy with work, that doesn’t mean I haven’t had time to read. Here are some of the books that caught my attenttion over the last month as I read them. The Suitcase Entrepreneur I’ve had the opportunity to chat with Natalie online before and was really looking forward to

A Look Back at VoxPopCon 2013

Anthony Marco has quite the event on his hands…should he continue to foster it going forward. Last month I returned to where I grew up — Hamilton, Ontario — to be part of VoxPopCon, an event that could be best described as a storytelling conference. Sure, there were elements of technology and new media thrown

Using Energy Levels as Contexts

Most of the time my work doesn’t feel like “work” at all. But I know that it is because there are times when it definitely does. Like the times when I have to write when I don’t feel like writing. But those moments come few and far between. Still, there are things I have in

Making Meditation Accessible

I’m big on mindful productivity, and this morning I took the ten minutes needed to watch this TED talk by Andy Puddicombe. Then I took ten minutes later on to do what he suggests in the video below. I hope you’ll do the same.

The Flagging of Tasks

On Episode 40 of Generational, Eric Hess explained how he flags his tasks in OmniFocus: “….of all of my list of things that are next to do, these are the things that actually I want to focus on today. They are simply ways to highlight individual tasks.” Flagging can be done in a variety of

A Look Back at The 2013 World Domination Summit

Three weeks later, I’m ready to share my 2013 World Domination Summit experience. To be clear, I can’t possibly share that much of it — this is an event that everyone needs to experience to fully appreciate it. But I’ll do my best, as I’ve done for the past two years before this one. I’ve

The Productivityist Workbook: Now on Amazon!

Today I’m pleased to announce that The Productivityist Workbook is now available directly from Amazon. It’s priced a little bit less than the version sold here . It’s only $2.99 through Amazon because you’ll only be getting the MOBI version. (That said, it does include a download link within its pages so that readers can

Fifteen Days

It’s been fifteen days since I posted something here. Fifteen days have come and gone, with a ton of things coming toward me and needing processing. I’m at the point now where I can put some of these things into words, but here’s what I’m not going to touch on too much this time around