Mike Vardy

The Black Friday Plan for The Productivityist

To be honest, I don’t really do Black Fridays. I’ll probably do this today instead. But I do prepare throughout the year and set myself up for gift-giving success in the process. The key for me just isn’t preparation, it’s a mindset of consistency that starts on December 26 and lasts for nearly another 365 […]

(PRE)PRODUCTIVITYIST: the book

Today I’m unveiling my first lengthy e-book that isn’t about productivity parody. Let me explain. When I was preparing to shift gears with this site, I went back and looked at all of my posts from its inception…back in January 2011. Now that isn’t all that long ago, but I’ve published just a shade under

Personal Productivity

While there are many people out there who haven’t settled on their productivity app of choice yet, there are many who have. And much like everyone has their preferences on other aspects of their work and life that are the ones they personally like the most, the same goes for productivity apps and methods. The

AwayFind Introduces Alert Times and Calendar Exceptions

I use AwayFind…a lot. In fact, even though iOS 6 brought VIP into the mix, I still rely heavily on AwayFind because it is so much more customizable than what VIP could ever hope to be. Thanks to the service, I’m able to banish that blue icon featuring an envelope to one of the last

Why Evernote Can Be All You Need to Get Things Done

Evernote can be anything to anyone or everything to everyone. With ubiquity that borders on infinite, for those that don’t want to dive into any other apps and simply master Evernote, you can make Evernote all you need to get things done.

Staying Put

This week I reinvented my blog. I held my first Ready Retreat workshop. I finished my book.1 I did not stay put this week – or in recent weeks for that matter. But there are certain areas of my life that I made sure I was staying put. I didn’t go out and buy a

Dropbox, Meet Asana

This week Asana and Dropbox got together and made something really awesome. Or rather, they shared something really awesome. While Dropbox has been a saving grace for myself and other productivityists out there, by partnering up with Asana both services have become even more useful than before. The integration of Dropbox within Asana now allows

General Housekeeping

I’m doing a little housekeeping here… I’m in the midst of moving the RSS feed from the seemingly stagnant Feedburner service to FeedBlitz, which will involve a change in the RSS feed. For those of you who arrived via RSS (via a reader or email) and want to continue to be updated past November 30,

Check the Boxes

Today I want you to look at your to-do list. Don’t just refer to it – look at it. Take your time with it. I mean, the things on it are going to take time to do, so you certainly should spend some time with the list as a whole before you break it down