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Celebrate Tonight To Boost Your Productivity Tomorrow

How can you bring more gratitude to your days on a regular basis? As you probably can guess, I’m going to encourage you to celebrate more. Now the thing is you respond to celebration differently than me, your best friend, and Paul McCartney.

You need to make a celebration plan that brings YOU the most happiness.

Why I Journal (And Why You Should Too)

I journal every single day. Why? There are many reasons, and no matter who you are they can make a big difference in your work and – more importantly – your life.

Why You Need To Take Personal Productivity Personally

Whether you use GTD, Agile, Kanban, the Franklin/Covey Method, Leo Babauta’s Zen To Done, or some other approach to personal productivity — the key is to make sure that the approach allows you to treat everything that you need to do and want to do as personally as possible. By that I mean to treat your tasks with the highest level of attention and intention.

Book Review: Get Smarter

It might not seem like it considering the number of book reviews I do,  but sometimes I get in a reading rut. Days will go by when I haven’t read a book and despite my best attempts to try tactics that have worked in the past I can’t seem to start a new book. Then I

How To End This Month (and Start the Next Month) Right

There are certain aspects of the calendar that I really appreciate, and the end of the month is one of them. Even more so than the end of the calendar year (which – as I’ve written about – doesn’t hold as much significance for me), the end of the month is a time where I can get set for the next 30 or so days while looking back at the 30 days prior.

Guitars, Growth, and Self-Assessment

This past weekend I decided to purchase a guitar. I’ve been thinking about it picking up the instrument for a while. What finally convinced me was hearing an interview with Grammy Award winner Steve Martin talk about learning to play the banjo. You could just hear the passion and excitement in his voice when he talked about playing music. I was convinced. I bought a guitar the next day.

Book Review: Zero to One

Peter Thiel has written a book where he hopes to bridge the gap between specifics and generalities. A book that applies as much to a business owner in Iowa as a San Francisco startup.