I’m writing this as I prepare to head off on a week-long business trip, and it’s the first thing I’ve really written in the week leading up to this point. I’m not going to suggest that it hasn’t bothered me that I haven’t written in a while — it has. But it hasn’t bothered me […]
I recently finished a second reading/listening of Laura Vanderkam’s What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast. I had listened to this audiobook once before and chose it again because it’s a short selection of advice and suggestions for not only a better morning, but a better anything. Mornings at our house have gotten to
While I don’t make New Year’s resolutions, I’m not averse to working towards making rituals and habits that will help me improve myself on a wide variety of levels. Over the past few years I’ve taken on the challenge of reading more. Not blog posts or magazine articles, but books. The biggest part of that challenge was finding ways to make it happen with as little friction as possible.
This year I discovered a service and app that has removed more friction than anything else: Blinkist.
In the final part of this four part series, I determine whether or not I deem the experiment a success, and what other findings I had along the way. I’ve recently wrapped up my month of virtual assistance, and along the way I learned a lot about what a VA can do for you…if you
I’m not only a writer and productivity specialist – I’m a husband and father of two children. In fact, since I work from home I am home with my kids a lot. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are actually known as “Daddy Duty Days” around my house. It’s been during those days that I’ve realized what things you can learn being around children on an ongoing basis — things that are transferrable to many facets of your life.
The easy tasks on your to do list aren’t the problem. It’s the projects that take several steps, right? You want to build a treehouse for your kids, write a book, clean the garage, prepare a presentation for work, and even more. How can you ever finish multiple projects at the same time? Here’s the
In the third part of this four part series, I discuss what happened during the final two weeks I worked with my new virtual assistant.
The quest for improved productivity is an ongoing one, but what tends to happen is we spend time worrying about maintaining productivity rather than developing better productivity habits. This results in slower than desired improvements in what we need to do and, more importantly, what we really want to do. Here are three things that
Note: I’m nearing the end of my virtual assistant experiment, but I’m taking a break from sharing my results this week so I can have more data next week. We can’t do it alone. Even if we’re working independently, we need help in some form or another. That help doesn’t necessarily have to come from
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