Mike Vardy

Everything in Evernote: All Out

Today I’d like to discuss the initial results of my Everything in Evernote experiment. In short: It has not gone well. Or it has gone exceedingly well…depending on your point of view. The problem isn’t with Evernote, though. The problem is trying to use Evernote for so much more than what it really is for. […]

A Productivity Podcast Revisited

Today is the Canadian National Day of Podcasting, so in recognition of that I’ve gone and done something with today’s post that was inspired by something that fellow 70Decibels host Stephen Hackett did over at his blog: I’m presenting the entire history of my retired solo podcast ProductiVardy. Below you’ll find all of the episodes

Amazing Things Have Happened

This week on Mikes on Mics, we had C.C. Chapman on the show. We discussed a whole bunch of stuff because, well…C.C. does a whole bunch of stuff — including authoring books. His latest book, Amazing Things Will Happen, is available now and while I’ve only started to make my way through it, what I’ve

The End of an Era

I owe you a blog post from today, and it seems almost fitting that the one I’m using to pay off that debt is about a changing of the guard at one of the most popular financial blogs on the web…Man Vs. Debt. Adam Baker – commonly and endearingly referred to as simply “Baker” –

Setting Up vs Setting Aside

Sometimes adding features adds friction. But taking the time to set things up is one of the things you have to do in order to maximize your productivity. If you want to find out what works, then you need to spend some time setting things up accordingly. If you don’t, then you’re doing both yourself

How to Use the iOS Reminders App as a Task Manager

Yesterday I wrote a post over iPhone Hacks discussing the best free iPhone task management apps out there. I did mention Apple’s stock application, Reminders, in passing but I feel that it definitely deserves more attention than it gets. Especially in this realm because it can do so much more than simply remind us of

4 Paragraphs on The 4-Hour Chef

I’m not going to detail a lot that The 4-Hour Chef (Hardcover link|Kindle link) covers, or the review would take 4 hours to read. So I’ve decided to condense my thoughts to a snack-sized format of 4 paragraphs. Here we go… Timothy Ferriss’s latest book isn’t so much a guidebook on how to become a

Everything in Evernote

Maybe it’s because I’m eyes deep into Tim Ferriss’s new book, The 4-Hour Chef 1. Maybe it’s because I haven’t conducted any experiments with apps in a while. Maybe it’s because a Twitter exchange or two inspired me. No matter what it is, I’m about to go all in on Evernote. I’ve written about how I

My Daily Routine

My Morning Routine I get up around 8:00am every day unless I have an early morning coaching call, in which case I’ll be up at around 7:00am. I head to the bathroom and splash water on my face to wake me up further before throwing on some clothes (nice ones if I’m doing a video