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Happy New Year: Why Labour Day Has Become My New Year’s Day

Back when I wrote The Front Nine, I explained that I started my new year in February. Actually, the specific date was February 2nd: Groundhog Day. Why? Because – as a nod to the Bill Murray movie Groundhog Day – I didn’t want my new year to be a rehash of the previous year. I took January as a time to reflect and recharge, and then hit the ground running once February 2nd arrived.

But this year, I decided to make a change. Now I’m starting my new year on Labour Day.

6 Email Principles To Boost Productivity And Reduce Stress

Tired of having email control how you spend your time? These email principles will help you take control of your inbox and reduce the stress that comes with using time and energy effectively.

How We Use Slack

Slack has not only improved the flow of communication throughout the team, it has also improved our overall productivity as well. Slack allows us to focus on using email for other areas of our work. It has also given us one place to look when we need to locate something for our team. Slack has been a game changer for us.

Essentialism: Focus on Fewer Tasks to Get More Work Done

Have you ever felt like you’re just rushing from one task to the next, and you don’t good about the tasks you actually accomplished? Instead of continuing to do things that aren’t working, here is an in-depth guide to the essentialist path. This is the approach how you can get more work done with laser-like focus.

Be More Productive With JUST A Pen And Paper

After I wrote this post about how notecards helped me write a book, I began to wonder what other tactile tools I have missed. Was there something else that might work better than the many–and I do mean many–different apps I have used?

How To Use Multiple Task Managers

While it is ideal to have one task management solution on an ongoing basis, for some of us that just isn’t a reality.

Maybe it’s because you have to use a specific app for work and you don’t want to use it for activities outside of work. Perhaps others on your team use different tools that you don’t want to use. Maybe the tool you use doesn’t allow for collaborative task management but has an outstanding feature set that is very tough to beat – such as OmniFocus. Just because you have to have to look for tasks in multiple places doesn’t mean that you can’t be organized about it.

5 Ways I Read More Than 50 Books Last Year

Everyone wants to read more books, but we don’t spend the time required to do so. Reading is difficult in an environment based on feed refreshes and new blog posts. It’s a noisy world, and reading just doesn’t fit in that well. Or does it? In many ways, reading is like a home-cooked meal compared

Win On The Weekends By Losing Football

Recently, Mike wrote a post titled Throw The Deep Ball where he wrote about the forward pass and how sometimes we need to take risks and go for big gains rather than small improvements. That works well for Mike, but I wanted to switch to the other side of the ball and tell you

A Look At 3 Great Alternatives To IQTell

If you are using IQTell (or were considering it) here are 3 of the best options I’ve found that can be used as alternatives. None of them will have everything that IQTell offered – and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing – but these options have the ability to scale as well as IQTell did and maintain some of that simplicity that IQTell management itself conceded that their solution did not offer.