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4 Paragraphs on The 4-Hour Chef

I’m not going to detail a lot that The 4-Hour Chef (Hardcover link|Kindle link) covers, or the review would take 4 hours to read. So I’ve decided to condense my thoughts to a snack-sized format of 4 paragraphs. Here we go… Timothy Ferriss’s latest book isn’t so much a guidebook on how to become a […]

Everything in Evernote

Maybe it’s because I’m eyes deep into Tim Ferriss’s new book, The 4-Hour Chef 1. Maybe it’s because I haven’t conducted any experiments with apps in a while. Maybe it’s because a Twitter exchange or two inspired me. No matter what it is, I’m about to go all in on Evernote. I’ve written about how I

My Daily Routine

My Morning Routine I get up around 8:00am every day unless I have an early morning coaching call, in which case I’ll be up at around 7:00am. I head to the bathroom and splash water on my face to wake me up further before throwing on some clothes (nice ones if I’m doing a video

The Black Friday Plan for The Productivityist

To be honest, I don’t really do Black Fridays. I’ll probably do this today instead. But I do prepare throughout the year and set myself up for gift-giving success in the process. The key for me just isn’t preparation, it’s a mindset of consistency that starts on December 26 and lasts for nearly another 365

(PRE)PRODUCTIVITYIST: the book

Today I’m unveiling my first lengthy e-book that isn’t about productivity parody. Let me explain. When I was preparing to shift gears with this site, I went back and looked at all of my posts from its inception…back in January 2011. Now that isn’t all that long ago, but I’ve published just a shade under

Personal Productivity

While there are many people out there who haven’t settled on their productivity app of choice yet, there are many who have. And much like everyone has their preferences on other aspects of their work and life that are the ones they personally like the most, the same goes for productivity apps and methods. The

AwayFind Introduces Alert Times and Calendar Exceptions

I use AwayFind…a lot. In fact, even though iOS 6 brought VIP into the mix, I still rely heavily on AwayFind because it is so much more customizable than what VIP could ever hope to be. Thanks to the service, I’m able to banish that blue icon featuring an envelope to one of the last

Why Evernote Can Be All You Need to Get Things Done

Evernote can be anything to anyone or everything to everyone. With ubiquity that borders on infinite, for those that don’t want to dive into any other apps and simply master Evernote, you can make Evernote all you need to get things done.

Staying Put

This week I reinvented my blog. I held my first Ready Retreat workshop. I finished my book.1 I did not stay put this week – or in recent weeks for that matter. But there are certain areas of my life that I made sure I was staying put. I didn’t go out and buy a