You Could Use An MVP Day
Have you ever wanted to figure out what your baseline would be for a productive day? If you have, then you could use an MVP Day.
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How to Be Prudent and Productive
When chaos appears to be the only thing in sight do your best not to panic. Instead, be prudent. Here’s how to be prudent AND productive every single day.
Braving Burnout: How to Go on When it Feels Like There’s Nowhere to Go
It’s difficult to define it, and it’s lately become a bit of a buzzword, but burnout does happen. There are the extreme cases, where people literally work themselves to death, and the mild cases (so-to-speak) accompanied by depression, fatigue, illnesses, and more.
How to Unlock Habit-Building Success and Achieve Your Goals
As a former writer of productivity things on the internet, I love a system, especially a simple and catchy one. Early on, until something really becomes a part of my routine, I need a way to lock in and secure the goals. Which brings me to my new metaphor: a combination lock.
Why I Stopped Saying You Can’t Use Email to Manage Tasks
For years I’ve been a champion of steering clear of email when you’re trying to manage your tasks. Every time I have witnessed someone using Outlook or Gmail as a to do list, I cringed and did my best to get them to see the light of day and start using an actual task management or to do list application for getting things done instead.
But I’ve since changed my tune.
How to Build an Achievement Structure: Getting the Front End Work Done
The title may seem daunting, but the idea behind it is simple: You must set yourself up in advance so that you can keep yourself from simply going through the motions every day — which is really what you’re doing if you’re using a simple to-do list. I call this building An Achievement Structure. In order to
The Speed of Right
“Slow and steady wins the race.” – The Tortoise and The Hare In our quest to get things done, we can find ourselves moving too fast. When that happens we run the risk of missing key components of task completion, which can result in lower quality results. The need for speed is alluring because the
The One Piece of Time Management Advice That You Should Definitely Follow
I’ve been studying personal productivity and time management for years now and there’s one question that comes up often. “What’s one piece of productivity and time management advice that you would give to everyone?” I love to talk about this kind of stuff but after being asked this plenty of times I decided it’d be
Don’t Worry About It
“Don’t worry about it.” I hate this phrase. Hearing this phrase does the exact opposite of its intent. It creates worry for me. I find that worry is a waste of time. I’m with Travis Bradberry on this. He said the following about worry: “‘What if?’ statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and