How To Use The Foolscap Method To Move The Right Things Forward
Steven Pressfield’s Foolscap Method can be used for enterprises that go beyond writing a book. You just need think a bit outside the box…or page.
Call For Help: Finding A Virtual Assistant
In the first part of this four part series, I’ve chronicled how I went about looking for a virtual assistant, along with revealing which service I decided upon.
3 Things You Can Do To Find Happiness Every Day
This week I’m introducing a new series here at Productivityist. 3 Things is a weekly series posted every Sunday that highlights three things you can do to overcome a challenge, enhance your productivity, and improve other aspects of your work and life. Each of the things also offers an app or product recommendation that can
How Accessibility Impacts Personal Productivity
“You are a mashup of what you let into your life.” – Austin Kleon Accessibility is one of the things we have more and more opportunities to obtain in today’s world. You can bring your office wherever you go thanks to the development of smartphones and tablets. You can have your data pretty much anytime,
Why I Switched To Todoist
In recent weeks I’ve made a shift in my Productivity Path. While I still love what The Omni Group is doing with OmniFocus, I am using another application for my task management these days. Actually, I’m using two. For the past six weeks, I’ve been using Asana for my larger team-oriented tasks and projects and
What Highlighter Colours Actually Mean
Highlighters are often misused. Worse, there messages are often misinterpreted. Whether you’re trying to “do” productive or simply love to highlight things for kicks, you need to know the message you’re sending to your own mind and to others’ minds when you use these popular pen-like markers. There’s nothing worse than saying something in one
How To Make The Don’t Break The Chain Ritual Work
Do a particular thing every day and make sure you always keep at it every day so that you don’t break the chain.
Call For Help: A Month Of Virtual Assistance
“Humble people ask for help.” – Joyce Meyer It’s time. In fact, it’s probably long past time. I’m hiring a virtual assistant to help me out with a myriad of my tasks. But rather than keep the process under wraps, I’m taking a page from Austin Kleon’s new book Show Your Work and am going
What I’ve Learned From The Productivityist Reader Survey
The results of my first reader survey have been tabulated, a little more than six weeks after asking people to take it. I’d like to thank everyone who took the time to answer the questions;1 the goal is to use those answers to help shape the future of this site and my work. Now I’m